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This section contains materials related to cultures, geography, anthropology, etnography, linguistics, religions, history, and the diversity of the world in general. Unlike travelogues or travel photo galleries, which usually relate personal experiences, traveloscopes can be anything, from short stories, comics, sketches, drawings, videos, music, fables, texts about interesting traditions, weird cultural moments and so on. A travelogue is anything that fascinates us, and that fascinates you. Speaking of which, feel free to send us your contributions - we will be happy to publish them here.

The Jinn of Mehmed Siyah Qalam

8. 4. 2021
The Jinn of Mehmed Siyah Qalam
Miron Petrik Popovic
[China, Iran, Mongolia,...]

Jinn (sg. jinni) are supernatural beings in Arabian folklore; some regard them as angels and some as demons, yet they are neither. While man was built from clay and angels from light, as related in the Quran, jinn were...

Nanao Sakaki, the Walking Poet

Nanao Sakaki, the Walking Poet

Lazar Pascanovic

Who was Nanao Sakaki? More than a decade after his death, that question is not easy to answer – mostly because he was a little bit of everything,...

Maps: Religions, Plants, Diseases

Maps: Religions, Plants, Diseases

The Travel Club

In addition to their obvious purpose and function, maps can be many things: educational and didactic tools, scientific tools, works of art,...

Diwan Abatur and the Mandaeans

Diwan Abatur and the Mandaeans

Ethel Stefana Drower

Mandaeans are the adherents of Mandaeism, a gnostic religion that originated in Mesopotamia in the first tree centuries CE. The majority of...

The Oldest Man in Yugoslavia

The Oldest Man in Yugoslavia

Hasan Brkić

Arena Magazine's "We are looking for the oldest Yugoslav" action seems to have found its hero. This is 130-year-old Meho Hadžić from Oraš-Planje,...

Amok! Amok!

Amok! Amok!

Richard Katz

In the village, further down the coast, there is a guardhouse, and in it a hollowed-out tree trunk instead of a gong. The rumble of that drum can be...

Sacrifice to the Morning Star

Sacrifice to the Morning Star

Ralph Linton

The Skidi Pawnee sacrifice of a captive girl to the Morning Star has probably aroused more popular interest than any other purely tribal Indian...

The Mystical Poetry of Yunus Emre

The Mystical Poetry of Yunus Emre

Snjezana Veljacic-Akpinar

The gradual disintegration of the Byzantine Empire enabled the Mongol attacks in the thirteenth century to threaten the population of Asia Minor...

If I were Fire

If I were Fire

The Travel Club

Francesco “Cecco” Angiolieri was an Italian poet from Siena who lived in the 13th and 14th century, and was a contemporary of Dante Alighieri. The...

Berber Motifs

Berber Motifs

Rachid Sadeg

There are more than a hundred thousand Berber motifs. Distributed for millennia throughout North Africa, they are everywhere: on murals, paintings,...

Kalmyk Community in Belgrade

Kalmyk Community in Belgrade

Zmago Smitek

The description of the life of a social group that disintegrated decades ago and then disappeared almost without a trace is linked, no doubt, to...

Japan: a Fashionable Melange

Japan: a Fashionable Melange

The Travel Club

The commercial power of the English-speaking race which now rules the world drives our people into some knowledge of their commercial ways and...

Cartographer: Matrakci Nasuh

Cartographer: Matrakci Nasuh

The Travel Club

Nasuh bin Karagöz bin Abdullah el-Visokavi el-Bosnavî, or Nasuh el-Matrakči ibn Karađoz ibn Abdullah el-Visokavi el-Bosnevi, commonly known as...

Restoring the Freedom

Restoring the Freedom

Redzib Skomorac

If you’re interested in nomadic cultures and traditions of the world, or people in general, here is a documentary you should not miss. Anthony...

No life: a short documentary

No life: a short documentary

Lazar Pascanovic, Uroš Krčadinac, Smirna Kulenovic

Travelers: Inesa, Uroš, Lazar In September 2013, using the Travel House in Granada as the starting point, we got on a ferry and crossed into...

The Nod: A Subtle Lowering of the Head

The Nod: A Subtle Lowering of the Head

Musa Okwonga

If you’re a black person who has ever visited a place where there aren’t many other black people, then you will be familiar with The Nod. The Nod is...

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