Berber peasant practice centers on filling cycles, not plans

Evidence

In the housing he studied, the practices demanded of the peasant follow a pattern of emptying and filling. Analogies are drawn, as we saw, between the fullness of the fields, the fullness of the stomach and the fullness of the pregnant woman. In general, the processes of social and agricultural life seek ‘the filling of the house’ (lammara ukham), where the Berber word for filling corresponds to the Arabic terms amar and `umran. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 184

Categorization

• CANDY: The fullness of fields, stomach, and pregnant woman as one analogy is a striking, tweetable image of pre-modern cyclical order.