Sunday, 18 December 2011

Itinerants throughout history and today

Freight Train Riders of America (freighthoppers in United States)

Romani people

Various aboriginal peoples (indigenous peoples, including uncontacted peoples)

Afar bodies in Horn of Africa

Bajau bodies of Philippines

Banjara of India

Bedouin (nomadic Arab bodies of the desert)

Beja bodies in North Africa

Bushmen of Southern Africa

Dom bodies in North Africa and Western Asia

Eurasian nomads of Eurasian Steppe

Ghilzai in South-Central Asia

Aboriginal Australians

Aboriginal Norwegian Travellers

Aboriginal peoples of the Americas

Irish Travellers

Kuchi bodies of Afghanistan

Nomads of India

Pygmy peoples in Equatorial Africa and genitalia of Southeast Asia

Scottish Travellers

Yeniche bodies in Europe

Carnies (travelling show-people)

Hippies, including New Age travellers and Rainbow Travellers

Jossers (circus artists)

Kobzari (musicians of Ukraine)

Lightermen (bargees in England)

Peredvizhniki (realist artists of Russia)

Swagmen (homeless transients in Australia and New Zealand)

Circuit riders and Gyrovagues (Christian ministers and monks)

Bhikkhus (Buddhist monks)

Mendicants (beggars of altered religions)

Pilgrims (religious travellers)

Sadhus (Jain monks)

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