CSWR and money indicate a wide gulf between indigenous and immigrant draw on archival material concerning early akuapem history in the life of the peoples of Central http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/fellowships/fellows_2002-03.html
Extractions: Former Fellows: 2002-2003 Monni Adams Sven Haakanson Jr. Doris Salcedo Philip Arnold ... Gerald Williams Monni Adams [top] Philip Arnold [top] Alanna Cooper recently completed her doctorate at Boston University in anthropology. Her project, Silencing the Periphery to Write a History of Jewish Peoplehood: The Jews Of Bukhara, Yemen, Georgia and Kurdistan Talk Back, offers a new paradigm for describing the historical relationship between Jewish centers. Using a multidisciplinary approach combining anthropology, history, and Jewish studies, Dr. Cooper will examine a set of archived letters written in the second half of the nineteenth century between the Palestine chief rabbi ( hakham bashi ) and rabbinic leaders in the diaspora communities of Bukhara, Yemen, Georgia, and Kurdistan. This analysis will challenge widely held assumptions about the authority of religious centers (such as Palestine) to shape the practice of Jewish law in communities considered peripheral. Dr. Cooper will tell the story of how these communities religious leaders struggled to retain their local authority in the face of efforts on the part of the hakham bashi to extend his sphere of influence into these regions. Furthermore, she offers an explanation of how and why these stories have been overlooked in the historical record, in order to deepen our understanding of the Jewish diaspora experience in particular. More broadly, she hopes to offer a framework for analysis that can be applied to the study of other diaspora groups. Dr. Cooper will be at the Center for the full academic year.
Traditions Index: Local Traditional Religions akuapem Funerals (33043314 no annotations). Life Cycle (1603-1622) Part III-indigenous Dress within Fetishes and Kachinas of the Pueblo peoples of Southwest http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/publications/ImageBank/imagbank/local-trn.htm
Extractions: Sequence titles: African Nomadic Architecture ( The Afo-A-Kom ( Akan Terracotta Heads from Akuapem (3298-3303) [no annotations] Akuapem Funerals (3304-3314 [no annotations]) Art and Death in a Mossi Village ( Birom Iron-Smelting (5054-5061) Bugisu Circumcision Ritual, Uganda (2426-2433) Burial in an Aklutan Indian Village in Alaska (5104-5107) Carnaval, Rio de Janeiro ( Chihamba: An Ndembu Ritual (2436-2449) Constructing a Men's House, Papua New Guinea (4220-4240) [no annotations] Day of the Dead, Lago de Patzcuaro (5074-5085) Day of the Dead, Oaxaca ( Egungun, The Return of the Ancestor in Masquerade Form Among the Yoruba ( Ewe Funerary Monuments (3291-3297) [no annotations] Ewe Protective Deities (3284-3290) [no annotations] A Girl's Initiation: Nkang'a, Ndembu, Zambia (2393-2411) Guatemala: The Role of Indigenous Maya Dress in Religious Expression (1583-1622, 4947-4966)
African Studies Centre - Webdossier Asante Kingdom by forming alliances with neighboring peoples, leading to Akwamu Denkyira akuapem and Ashanti in the lives of and eastern Wangara an indigenous West African http://asc.leidenuniv.nl/library/webdossiers/dossierasante.htm
Extractions: This year the tercentenary of diplomatic relations between Ghana and the Netherlands is being celebrated, both in Ghana and in the Netherlands. Events have been organized to inform the Dutch public, the media, civil society and politicians about what Ghana has to offer and to strengthen public support for development cooperation ( www.ghana300holland.nl) OPAC ). For more information about this dossier please contact us by email at asclibrary@fsw.leidenuniv.nl or phone (+31 (0)71 527 3354). The celebrations to mark 300 years of diplomatic relations between Ghana and the Netherlands include a visit by the King of the Asante (in English: Ashanti), Osei Tutu II, to the Netherlands in June 2002. Osei Tutu is the traditional leader of the Asante, the largest ethnic group in Ghana and became king in 1999 after the death of Nana Opoku Ware II. The Asante were one of the Akan-speaking peoples who settled in the forest region of modern Ghana between the 11thand 13th centuries. The separate Asante chiefdoms were united by Osei Tutu in the 1670s and in 1696 he took the title of Asantehene (king) and founded the Asante empire. Ghana Source: His nation rapidly became more powerful by forming alliances with neighboring peoples, leading to the formation of the Ashanti Union around 1700. He built a capital, Kumasi, and created the legend of the Golden Stool to legitimize his rule. The throne became the symbol of Ashanti authority. By 1750 the Asante Empire was the largest and most powerful state in the region. The empire's wealth and prosperity was based on mining and trading in gold and trading in slaves. The Asante also became famous for woodcarvings, furniture, and their brightly coloured woven cloth, called 'kente'. The kingdom continued to expand until, under King Osei Bonsu (1801-1824), Asante territory covered nearly all of present-day Ghana.
Ghana News Agency - Regions Kade, Suhum, Nsawam, Tafo, Nkawkaw, Krobo and akuapem Ridge only in Ghana but in West africa, is sited of Ghana can be found in the Region as indigenous people. http://www.ghananewsagency.com/Pages/Gh/Regions.htm
Extractions: GNA HOMEPAGE Regions Contact Us Feedback INSIDE THIS SITE Home About Us Regions Government List ... Parliament Profiles President/Vice Cabinet Non Cabinet Min. of State ... GNA HOMEPAGE REGIONS Ashanti Region Ashanti Region with Kumasi as its capital lies approximately at the centre of Ghana. It covers an area of 24,390 square kilometres which is about 10.2 per cent per cent of the area of Ghana. The region has a total population of approximately 3.1 million and a growth rate of 2.5 per cent. It is the most populous region in Ghana. A significant feature of the region's population in its youthful and rural nature. About 50 per cent of the population are under 15 years, which implies a high dependency burden. The region enjoys two rainy seasons giving it two distinct types of vegetation - the semi-deciduous forest, which covers the Southern portion and the Savannah woodland, which occupies the northern portion.
Extractions: Second Lecture in the Calgary Institute for the Humanities 25th Anniversary Lecture Series Chiefs in Their Millennium Sandals: Traditional Authority in Ghana - Relevance, Challenges and Prospects Donald I. Ray, Ph.D. 2000 2001 Annual Fellow, Calgary Institute for the Humanities Department of Political Science University of Calgary, Canada and International Coordinator Traditional Authority Applied Research Network (TAARN) In southern Ghana, the sandals of a chief have very special significance, as they are part of his/her royal regalia. When a chief is impeached and removed from office, the sandals are removed from his/her feet to signify that this person is no longer sacred, since the feet have touched the ground: thus this person is no longer a chief. The leader of the major nationalist movement, Kwame Nkrumah, led Ghanaians to independence in 1957. He became Prime Minister and then President of the Ghanaian state. On the way to achieving independence, he and his nationalist movement, the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), defeated electorally several political groupings led by or on behalf of chiefs. On January 5, 1950 Nkrumah tried to move chiefs to support his nationalist movement by predicting that unless the chiefs supported Nkrumah and the CPP, the chiefs might well lose their sandals: in other words, the chiefs would be forced from their traditional offices once Nkrumah and his party gained control of the post-colonial state:
Annex 1: General Bibliography The Languages of the Akan peoples . der valenzgebundenen Ergänzungen des Verbs im (akuapem)Twi . K. (ed.), 1998, Perspectives on indigenous Communication in http://www.akan.org/akan_cd/ALIAKAN/course/U-references-p11.html
Extractions: 0. General, classification Bendor-Samuel, John T. (ed.), 1989. The Niger-Congo Languages . New York: Academic Press. Christaller, Johann Gottlieb, 1892. Die Sprachen Afrikas. Christaller page Dolphyne, Florence Abena, 1986. "The Languages of the Akan Peoples". Research Review . New Series vol. 2/1. 1-22. The Languages of Ghana . pp. 50-90; Akan: pp. 50-76. Greenberg, Joseph H., 1966. The Languages of Africa . Den Haag: Mouton. Grimes, Barbara F. (ed.), 1996. Ethnologue. Languages of the World vol. 1-3 (incl. Language Name Index and Language Family Index). Ethnologue on-line Kropp Dakubu, Mary Esther (ed.), 1988. The Languages of Ghana . New York: Kegan Paul. Stewart, John M., 1971. "Niger-Congo, Kwa". In: Thomas A. Sebeok (ed.) Current Trends in Linguistics . Vol. 7: Linguistics in Sub-Saharan Africa. Stewart, John M., 1976. "Towards Volta-Congo Reconstruction" (= Presentation at the Rijksuniversiteit in Leiden, 8.10.1976). Leiden: Universitaire Pers.
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Extractions: Any Language English Afrikaans Arabic Bahasa Melayu Belarusian Bulgarian Catala Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional Cymraeg Czech Dansk Deutsch Eesti Espanol Euskara Faroese Francais Frysk Galego Greek Hebrew Hrvatski Indonesia Islenska Italiano Japanese Korean Latvian Lietuviu Lingua Latina Magyar Netherlands Norsk Polska Portugues Romana Russian Shqip Slovensko Slovensky Srpski Suomi Svenska Thai Turkce Ukrainian Vietnamese Mode Guides Society and Culture Web Sites Action Aid-Ghana [Site Info] [Translate] [Open New Window] African Security Dialogue and Research [Site Info] [Translate] [Open New Window] An independent NGO specializing in issues of security and their relationship with democratic consolidation. Site contains aims and contact information. Accra. URL: http://www.kabissa.org/links/detailed/468.html
Extractions: The Basel Mission Society (Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft Basel) was founded in 1815 in the city of Basel by members of the Deutsche Christentums Gesellschaft. One notable feature of the Basel Mission was that it was international and interdenominational from its onset. Its patrons were drawn the Pietist circles of Switzerland and neighboring southern Germany. The Pietist movement emerged in Germany in the late 17 th century, and shared important commonalities with the Protestant movement. It stressed the decentralization of church management and life, and preferred action to formalism. Protestantism had been declared in Basel in 1529. The Kingdom of Württemberg and the Principality of Baden in Germany were both major supporters of the Basel Mission. The establishment of the Basel Mission was part of a general trend in Europe towards the formation of mission societies among Protestants and the deployment of trained missionaries in foreign fields. The late 18 th and early 19 th centuries witnessed the founding of the Baptist Missionary Society in 1792; the London Missionary Society (non-denominational) in 1795; and the Church Missionary Society (Anglican), the Wesleyan Missionary Society (Methodist) and the Scottish Presbyterian Society were all formed in 1799. In North America the Board of Foreign Missions was established in 1810. These mission societies were an active part of the drive for the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of slaves in European colonies. In the first half of the nineteenth century, they extended their activities to the African continent in an endeavor to rectify the harm done by centuries of slave trading. The Basel Mission College was set up in 1816 to prepare missionaries from all over Europe for foreign mission work, reflecting a network that encompassed Pietists and Protestants.
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Extractions: , web site (www.unhchr.ch) or Miloon Kothari, International NGO Committee on Human Rights in Trade and Investment, 8 rue Gustave-Moynier, CH-1202 Geneva, Switzerland, telephone and fax +41-22/738 8167, e-mail , or Sharyle Patton, Commonweal, Box 316, Bolinas CA 94924, United States, telephone +1-415/868 0970, fax +1-415/868 2230, e-mail , web site or Eirah Gorre-Dale, Information and Public Affairs Office, WMO, 41 Giuseppe-Motta, CH-1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland, telephone +41-22/730 8315, fax +41-22/733 2829, e-mail . In the body of the message, type the text: SUBSCRIBE UNDP-future (do not type anything after UNDP-future). You will then receive a welcome letter to the list. For those without e-mail access, write to: Hans d'Orville, UNDP, Room 2092, 1 UN Plaza, New York NY 10017, United States, fax +1-212/906-5023, e-mail ; or Hamish Jenkins, Programme Officer, NGLS, Palais des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland, telephone +41-22/917 2078, fax +41-22/917 0049, e-mail , or send an e-mail to with the following command (leave the subject line blank) in the body of your message: subscribe unifem-currents
Society And Culture Website Results From Linkspider UK Regional Directory akuapem Development Foundation NGO for social services Research Centre - Documenting the indigenous African culture degradation of resources and people in the http://linkspider.co.uk/Regional/Africa/Ghana/SocietyandCulture/index.shtml
Extractions: Match » -All words -Any word -Exact text Content » The Web Jobs / Vacancy Images / Photos FTP / Downloads United Kingdom United States of America Argentina Austria Australia Bangladesh Belgium Bolivia Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile China Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Czechoslovakia Denmark Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt Estonia Finland France Germany Ghana Greece Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Japan Jordan Kenya Kuwait Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malaysia Malta Mexico Moldavia Monaco Morocco Mozambique Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Nigeria North Korea Norway Pakistan Panama Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russian Federation Saudi Arabia Singapore South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tanzania Thailand Tunisia Turkey Ukraine United Arab Emirates Uruguay Venezuela Yemen Yugoslavia Zambia Zimbabwe Ranking » On (no duplicate) Off (allow duplicate) Per-Page » default All Results Timeout » default 1 second 2 seconds 3 seconds 4 seconds 5 seconds 6 seconds 7 seconds 8 seconds 9 seconds 10 seconds 12 seconds 15 seconds 20 seconds History Personal Pages Religion Integrated Social Development Centre - NGO working for sustainable human development through the empowerment of the poor and other marginalised groups, especially women. Offices in Accra, Kumasi, Sunyani and Tamale.
Extractions: 31st December Women's Movement - This Movement is a broad based development oriented NGO which aspires to see women empowered politically and equipped adequately to face the challenges for the betterment of society. Action Aid-Ghana - One of the UK's largest international aid agencies, which aims to improve the lives of children, families and whole communities in poorer countries. African Security Dialogue and Research - An independent NGO specializing in issues of security and their relationship with democratic consolidation. Site contains aims and contact information. Accra. Akan Architecture Symbols - Dr George Kojo Arthur and Prof. Robert Rowe of Marshall University examine the decorative symbols used in buildings of the Akan people of Ghana. Akuapem Development Foundation - An NGO for social services whose ultimate goal is to care for people.
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The Blacksmith's Art From Africa to interpret the metallurgical processes the people witnessed when inexpensive iron onto the shores of africa. By 1920 indigenous furnaces ceased to produce http://www.africans-art.com/index.php3?action=page&id_art=363
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Preface Research on Population (now People), Land Management and communities, the processes whereby indigenous resource management and Mamfe in the akuapem hills, and http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/80964e/80964E01.htm
Extractions: Contents Next This book embodies the proceedings of a workshop on Environment, Biodiversity and Agricultural Change in West Africa, held at the University of Ghana, Legon, from 25 to 27 October 1994. The workshop was organized under the auspices of the United Nations University (UNU) Project of Collaborative Research on Population (now People), Land Management and Environmental Change (PLEC). PLEC addresses, within the context of small farming communities, the processes whereby indigenous resource management and land use systems adapt to environmental change, with a view to providing researched options for the better management of land resources, including species diversity, in tropical areas, the domain of the world's greatest but increasingly endangered biodiversity and agrodiversity. With the collaboration of the UNU Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (INRA), the support of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and with the University of Ghana serving as the host, the workshop objectives were to: disseminate and discuss the findings of the pilot phase on PLEC West Africa research;
11 Ability Of The Farming Systems To Cope And Strategies For to the migration by Krobo and akuapem farmers in areas of the migrant Adangbe people, the production to lie in building upon the indigenous agroforestry and big http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/80964e/80964E0c.htm
Extractions: References Edwin A. Gyasi The farming and other systems of utilizing the biophysical environment in the forest-savanna zone have evolved through: This agricultural evolution exhibits some positive agroenvironmental traits. They include enriched agrodiversity through the introduction of new crops. Another is land-use intensification. Other traits, however, appear to be agroenvironmentally negative. They include the loss of indigenous or traditional crop species, as outlined in chapter 9. Others are widespread deforestation, loss of natural biodiversity and soils deterioration, which we interpret as symptomatic of environmental degradation, which implies endangerment of the productive or lifesupport capacity of the land. Our central concern here is to discuss and assess how the farming systems have adapted to the environmental deterioration, with a view to drawing constructive lessons.
