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Images of Daily Life in Morocco
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| A garlic seller and his pushcart, covered with garlic, in the little neighborhood market of Ksibtnhas, in the Kasbah of Marrakech. He is ready to sell some garlic to the women on the right, one of whom is holding out some coins and has already made her purchase. The garlic man has a balance scales and will weigh out garlic by the gram--50 grams of garlic is a typical amount. The women on the right are thinking about buying from this man but show some doubt as to whether his garlic is the best for the money.
-How much do three heads of garlic cost in your supermarket? Would you take time to bargain over the price of garlic? The market takes place daily, with merchants coming in directly from the country as well as merchants who get their produce from the big city market and then sell their produce in small neighborhood markets like this. Permanent shops line the area around the market. In Arabic, the word for market is "suq." Suq means a place where there are both pushcart merchants such as this as well as permanent shops nearby. There's always a mix of shops and pushcarts and stands. The women in this picture are wearing the traditional djellaba, an overgarment, and are veiled. The veil is seen as a kind of moral protection, guarding against the wandering eyes of men |