Berber women are fascinating people who have an interesting life. Everything about them is worth preserving : their daily life, clothing, jewelry and finally their marriages.
A berber women's daily life is very busy and demands a lot of work. It isn't like most women's usual daily life , and that is one thing that shows that they are important people. Like other women they have to take care of their children and cook for their families. But unlike most, besides the chores they have to do at home, they have to either work in fields, granaries or orchards.
Almost all berber women wear the same types of clothing. During the day they would either wear a colorful skirt with a shirt or a kaftan. Women also wear scarves over their heads. It is nice that most wear the kaftan, because it is like a tradition that everyone follows. Kaftans are also very nice outfits that have beautiful beaded patterns in them.
Berber women have a very unique way of wearing their jewelry. They have plenty of jewelry that wear worn for different occasions and by different types of people. The Hand of Fatima is a common jewelry that many people know about. It was worn for luck by many women but the women that were wealthy wore it with a sliver one. However a village women who carries a heavy load of firewood would wear silver chain with old coins . A women that works in a factory would wear rings, bracelets and earrings.
Marriage in the berber culture happens differently. Most of the time it is the family that arranges the marriages. The age limits for a bride to be when she get married is 16 but the brides are usually 14 or 15 when they get married. However, the men are usually way older then they are. After the marriage the new married couple usually moves in a lot with the family of the men.
In conclusion, even though the berbers have a very different life style, I still believe that it is important to preserve there culture, simply because their believes and traditions are also used by other people that are not berber, and so that proves that they are an important culture.
