You are in a neighborhood of the section of Marrakech known as the Kasbah. Originally, this area of the city contained lodging for the sultan's soldiers and has, from time to time, contained the palace of the sultan also. Such a part of the city is called the "kasbah;" it might be called the "citadel" or "fort" in a European town. This little neck of the Kasbah is called Ksibtnhas, or "Little Kasbah of Brass." It must be that they used to sell brassware (trays, cups, lamps) around here long ago; nobody knows today. In any case, it is a community that functions around a small, everyday, neighborhood market (which you can see dead ahead); a community oven; a district of shops; and a sense of everybody knowing, more or less, everybody else.

A remnant of an earlier city wall looms directly over the street in front of you. As Marrakech has grown and changed, it has incorporated sections of the exterior walls from earlier times.

Very few Moroccans have ovens in their homes. Yet they make homemade bread once or even twice a day. You can see a girl carrying rising loaves of bread on a board, supported on her head, on the left. She's going off to the oven nearby, where a baker will put her loaves in a wood-burning oven. Children spend a lot of time going back and forth to the oven.

Something else. You see an old man carrying home a bunch of mint from the market. He is probably comfortably retired, and has done his task at the market. He is going to make mint tea when he gets home. That's something old people in Morocco do a lot--sit around, make mint tea, talk with their friends.

On the right, you see a girl at the public fountain. She may be from a poor family whose home does not have indoor plumbing, so she spends a lot of time going to the public fountain every day fetching water. Alongside her is a water seller filling his water bag. He walks around with a water bag and a cup in the market and sells a cup of water for a penny.

-What kind of technology is presented in this picture?

-What is the scale of human movement over space?

-Compare the shopping habits of your family with some of the people in this image.