SERSAS For instance, a typical fante traditional state will to which asafo was an indigenous institution, or gradually rubbing off on coastal peoples, scholars have http://www.ecu.edu/african/sersas/Papers/ShumwayRebeccaFall2001.htm
Extractions: NOTE: This is a draft. Please do not cite without the permission of the author. Introduction. The patrilineal networks created by one's membership in an asafo company, and the inherent conflicts that exist between these ties and one's matrilineal ties, have caused some anthropologists to label the Fante as practicing a system of "double descent," meaning simply that a person can be a member of two different descent groups-one matrilineal and one patrilineal, for separate purposes. But a debate has arisen as to whether or not this pattern of double descent is really a product of a European patrilineal influence on coastal society. The implication being that if the pattern of inheritance and succession within the father's line was adopted from European practices on the Ghana coast, it is somehow less authentic or "indigenous." Historians have stumbled over some rather different aspects of the asafo institution, most notably the origins of the military structure and symbolism displayed by asafo companies. The asafo described in the anthropological literature of the colonial era displayed many features reminiscent of European military groups. For instance, a typical Fante traditional state will have the equivalent of an army general (Tufohen), a senior commander (Supi), multiple captains of subdivisions (Asafohen), and a variety of lesser officers including linguists, executioners, flag carriers, hornblowers, drummers and priests/priestesses.
People Groups Living In The U.S. - Listed By Country Of Origin Hausa, and Akan, of which Twi and fante (aka Fanti Yiddish is spoken by over 1/2 million people. In addition, Native American languages indigenous to and still http://www.ethnicharvest.org/peoples/bycountry.html
Extractions: See also the list alphabetized by Language COUNTRY LANGUAGE(S) Afghanistan Dari (called Farsi in Iran ) and Pashto (aka Pushto) are the official languages. There are also about one million speakers of Uzbek, one-half million speakers of Turkmen (aka Turkoman), and about one-half million speakers of Brahui Albania Albanian Algeria Arabic , Among Berber languages, Kabyle is predominant. Argentina Spanish , Pampa Armenia Armenian Austria German Azerbaijan Azeri Bahrain Arabic Bangladesh Bengali is predominant, Brahui is spoken by a small minority. Belgium Flemish and French are the official languages. Belorussia Belorussian, Russian Belize Garifuna Bhutan Jonkha is the official language. Nepali is also spoken. Bolivia The official language is Spanish , which is spoken by less than 40 percent of the population. The predominant Indian languages are Quechua, Aymara, and Saramo (aka Itonama; spoken by less than 19 percent of the population). Bosnia Serbo-Croation Brazil Portuguese Brunei Visayak Bulgaria Bulgarian Burkina Faso French is the official language. Mossi (aka More) is the predominant native language. Gurma, Fulani, Dejula, and Tuareg are also spoken.
Extractions: Dictionaries: General Computing Medical Legal Encyclopedia Word: Word Starts with Ends with Definition In the study of mythology This article is about a system of myths. For the 1942 book Mythology, see its author Edith Hamilton. A mythology is a relatively cohesive set of myths: stories that comprise a certain religion or belief system. Myths are generally stories based on tradition and legend designed to explain the universal and local beginnings ("creation myths and Click the link for more information. and religion A religion is commonly defined as the social expression of attitudes, beliefs, and practices related to the supernatural or the sacred. Religion also functions in many human communities as a means by which the origin of the world around them, and such mysteries as life, death, and their meaning are explained. However, what actually constitutes a religion is subject to much dispute in the fields of theology, sociology, anthropology, and among ordinary people.
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Extractions: This Web page provides a description of the 54-page document " Typesetting African languages " which I prepared in May 2000, a list of contents , and links by which to download an Acrobat PDF version either in whole or in parts. I have recently had some voluntary involvement in the work of a London- based health project for people of recent African origin, such as refugees and first- generation immigrants. Through this contact I came to consider the problems of providing printed materials such as publicity and health information in African languages. The problem...
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Extractions: sitemap Nearly a half century since the decolonization of Africa, the question remains: Why is Europe still the best place to view or buy traditional and tribal African art? While the world has started to pay attention to the collapse of health care systems in sub-Saharan Africaand the concomitant spread of AIDS and the resurgence of "vanquished" diseases such as malaria and tuberculosislittle is said about the continent's cultural collapse. The governments that have plundered the continent's resources also have ignored the vast cultural treasures in their countries. Only African music retains a firm footing, because of its commercial base and vague attraction to listeners of Western pop. But Africa's great traditions of sculpture, mask-making and textile design are poorly 16th century ivory Benin mask, seized BRITISH MUSEUM recognized at home. Even behemoths such as Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, or South Africa, the richest nation of black Africa, boast no museums where visitors are presented with anything like the breadth, diversity and sheer quality of the art produced across the continent. Instead, museums in Africa tend toward the local and disconnected. And that's in places where museum curators aren't selling off pieces themselves or conspiring with thieves. To get a feel for the immense diversity of tribal African art requires a visit not to Africa, but to London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, New York, Washington or Los Angeles.
Outsider Ink - Outsider Classic the impact of colonialism/capitalism on indigenous culture. the impact of westernization on the people of africa John fante (1909 1983) John fanteJohn fante http://outsiderink.com/outsiders/previous.php
Extractions: Corey Mesler Quick Links OI Archive Artist Spotlight Current Issue 2004 - Spring 2003 - Winter 2003 - Fall 2003 - Summer 2003 - Spring 2002 - Winter 2002 - Fall 2002 - Summer 2002 - Spring 2001 - Winter 2001 - Fall 2001 - Summer 2001 - Spring 2000 - Winter 2000 - Fall 2000 - Summer 2000 - Spring 1999 - Winter 1999 - Fall Outsider Classic Contributor's Updates Contest Submission Guidelines Subscribe to OI Online Community Main Index Chinua Achebe, the preeminent Nigerian writer, is known for his work focused on the short and long-term effects of English colonization upon Africa's people. His fiction and essays cover the dissolution of an ancient culture forced to give up its heritage by a 'domesticated' invasion. Achebe empowers his reader to come to an understanding of what has been lost to the subjugated culture, and by working in English, he is able to appeal to those responsible. His first novel, Things Fall Apart , follows the swift undoing of a great man by the changes wrought from colonization. Achebe has modeled his work on the African oral tradition that "art is, and always was, at the service of man" and writes stories with a human purpose. As an author, he has used his work to enlighten the world, and allowed us to understand his, remaining true to his heritage of passing down knowledge through the act of telling a story.
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Africa Update Archives classificat ion of African languages; indigenous African pictographic Gullah comes from the Gola people who came n the Ashante Twi, Ewe and fante, Ga, terms http://www.ccsu.edu/Afstudy/upd4-3.html
Extractions: Vol. IV, no. 3 (Summer 1997) Pan-African Language Patterns Revisited. HOME ARCHIVES In the Spring issue of Africa Update we included perspectives on African-French linguistic interaction as well as Afro-Jamaican language patterns. We complete the discussion of the pan-African linguistic system by examining the African-American dim ension. In response to our request for an up-to-date account of the "Ebonics" debate and aspects of continental African impact on African-American speech patterns, Dr. Katherine Harris has provided us with a scholarly detailed analysis which we are proud to include in this issue. She provided us with more than seventy references but because of our limited space we found it necessary to reduce these to a few selected references. Readers who are interested in the full body of references should fe el free to contact us for this. Dr. Harris argues that the Ebonics debate intersects some important issues such as the geographical configurations of Africa in the 1500's and after; the linguistic heritage of those Africans that were EXPATRIATED to the Americas; the ongoing classificat ion of African languages; indigenous African pictographic and other systems of writing; and the interesting issue of vocabulary retention. She informs the reader of a wide range of terms that are of continental African origin, and which have become embedd ed in African-American speech in particular and American speech in general. There is also emphasis on some of the structural changes which have also taken place.
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Extractions: Browse: General Information Actors People Gazetteer ... Dictionary (Translations provided by freetranslation.com Fabaceous describes something that has the nature of a bean or is like a bean. A Fabian policy is a policy of delays and cautions. It is so called after the style of policy used by Fabiu Maximus, who, by carefully avoiding decisive contests, foiled Hannibal , harassing his army by marches, counter- marches, and Ambuscades. The Fabian Society is a socialist association founded in London in 1883 which aims at the reorganisation of society by the emancipation of land and capital from individual and class ownership, and the vesting of them in the community for the general benefit. Fabliau is a form of early French literature consisting of short versified tales, comic in spirit and intended primarily for recitation. They were mainly written between the 12th and 14th centuries in northern France , and caricature every subject, but particularly women. A fac (from a shortening of facsimile) is a large ornamental letter used, especially by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book.
Extractions: DAGOMBA HISTORY, CULTURE, RELIGION, ECONOMY Please click on the bulleted headings to toggle text. Arhin, Kwame, Traditional Rule in Ghana, Past and Present, SEDCO, ISBN 9964 72 033 5 no date. 43 Succession to Dagbon 'skins.' 'Skins' are material symbols of traditional political office in the northern and upper regions, just as stools are symbols of traditional political office in central and southern Ghana. . . The state of Dagbon . . . was basically a union of autonomous states, with the head of one of them elevated above the others as the 'first among equals.' . . . the Na of Yendi was Na of all Nas. 44 . . . the officials of the Na's court differed from those of ohene's court in being predominantly eunuchs. Bowdich, T. E., Mission from Cape Coast to Ashantee 1819 (notes) 177 7 days from Sallagah NE according to the Moors through the Inta town of Zongoo is Yahndi (Yendi) the capital of Dagwumba. 178 Yahndi is described to be beyond comparison larger than Coomassie, the houses much better built and ornamented. Ashantees lost themselves in the streets. The King Inana Taquanee, has been converted by the Moors, who have settled there in great numbers. The markets at Yahndi are described as animated scenes of commerce, constantly crowded with merchants from almost all countries of the interior. Horses and cattle abound. Yahndi is named after the numeral one, from its pre-eminence.
Questia Online Library - The Online Library (3) in on, and critically deal with the indigenous factors Hausa, Igbo, Xhosa, Zulu, Shona, Ewe, fante Asante etc Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5001450079
Ridgeart aspirations of the poor and disenfranchised people of Haiti indigenous flags may have existed in africa before the of Dahoumy (Bénin) and the fante Asafo flags http://www.ridgeart.com/flagsinfo.html
Extractions: Click Here for Reference Books on Haitian Art More... Antiques Prints ... Flags 21 Harrison St. Oak Park, IL 60304 Phone: 1-888-269-0693 or 708-848-4062 Fax: 708-383-2160 Email: ridgeart@comcast.net Ridge Art Ridge Art Links Contact Us How to Buy About Us Home 21 Harrison St. Oak Park, IL 60304 Phone: 1-888-269-0693 or 708-848-4062 Fax: 708-383-2160 Email: ridgeart@comcast.net Flags Metals Paintings ... More... Sequin Flags of Haiti Click Here for Reference Books on Haitian Art In order to understand the significance of a Haitian drapo Vodou, we have to understand what Haitian Vodou is. Vodou is a system of beliefs honoring the African ancestral spirits that emerged in response to chattel slavery. Vodou is above all a political religion that is practiced by 90% of the population in Haiti, that is, the poor working class and the peasantry. The predominant elements of the religion come from the old African religions that the slaves brought with them mixed with the Catholicism that the French forced upon them. It also contains elements from the culture of the Taino, the indigenous people who inhabited the island of Hispanola when Columbus first landed. The Taino were enslaved by the Spanish and were, subsequently, exterminated for the most part in a short period of time to be replaced by Africans. Some Taino managed to survive in the mountains and intermarried with escaped African slaves who adopted some of their religious practices. Drapo Vodou is the artistic expression of the religion of Vodou. As a genre it contains elements from both African and European religious traditions. Originally, the flags were used solely for ceremonial purposes but in the 50's collectors started to buy the flags and the priests (or oungan) started to make them to raise money for their congregations.
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Extractions: Course Descriptions The University of Ghana currently does not publish course descriptions. Please note that many other courses are available; these descriptions cover only courses recently taken by U.S. students in Ghana. For a complete list of available courses (without description), see the U. of Ghana website or catalog. SPEC 303-Twi This is a basic course in Asante Twi for beginners covering the Twi alphabet and sounds; verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, postpositions, and interrogatives; and simple expressions such as greetings, numbers, days of the week, etc. This course is required for all NC State Study Abroad Program participants. Institute for African Studies AFST 250 Course A6: African Popular Culture: Traditional Festivals and Funeral Ceremonies This course examines traditional festivals and funeral ceremonies as two components of African popular culture, paying particular attention to their social conflicts and their social roles in Africa. The course takes a sociological perspective with a focus on Ghanaian societies and with examples drawn from across Africa. School of Administration ADMN 311 Health Services Management This course is designed for students specializing in the study of health services management. It provides an overview of the management of organizations engaged in the delivery of health services, including such topics as the health care delivery system; the management process and managerial roles; resource planning, utilization, and control; problem solving and decision making; human resources; and organizational dynamics and change.
Entrepreneurial Women In Ghanaian Canoe Fisheries: Bibliography Meillassoux, C. (Ed.), The Development of indigenous Trade and Styles; an Examination of Coastal fante Businesswomen. 1950, Akan and GaAdangme peoples of the http://www.fou.uib.no/fd/1996/f/712002/biblio.htm
Extractions: The case of the Fante fishing town Moree Abu, K. 1983, "The Separateness of Spouses: Conjugal Relations in an Ashanti Town". In: Oppong, C. (Ed.), Female and Male in West Africa. Barth, F. (Ed.), 1963, The Role of the Entrepreneur in Social Change in Northern Norway . Universitetsforlaget, Bergen and Oslo. Bleek, W. 1987, "Family and Family Planning in Southern Ghana". In: Oppong, C. (Ed.), Sex Roles, Population and Development in West Africa . Heinemann, London. Boserup, E. 1989, Woman's Role in Economic Development . Earthscan Publications, London. Chauveau, J-P., and A. Samba, 1988, "Market Development, Government Interventions and the Dynamics of the Small-scale Fishing Sector: An Historical Perspective of the Senegalese Case". Development and Change , 20 (4), pp. 599-620. Christensen, J.B. 1977, "Motor Power and Women Power: Technological and Economic Change among the Fanti Fishermen of Ghana", In: Smith, E.M. (Ed.), Those who Live From the Sea. A study in Maritime Anthropology . West Publishing, New York.
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Extractions: Zurück On the basis of language and culture, historical geographers and cultural anthropologists classify the indigenous people of Ghana into five major groups. These are the Akan, the Ewe, MoleDagbane , the Guan, and the Ga-Adangbe. The Akan people occupy practically the whole of Ghana south and west of the Black Volta. Historical accounts suggest that Akan groups migrated from the north to occupy the forest and coastal areas of the south as early as the thirteenth century. Some of the Akan ended up in the eastern section of Côte d'Ivoire, where they created the Baule community. When Europeans arrived at the coast in the fifteenth century, the Akan were established there. The typical political unit was the small state under the headship of an elder from one of the seven or eight clans that composed Akan society. From these units emerged several powerful states, of which the oldest is thought to be Bono (also called Brong). As a result of military conquests and partial assimilation of weaker groups, well-known political entities, such as Akwamu, Asante , Akyem, Denkyira, and Fante emerged before the close of the seventeenth century. Asante, for example, continued to expand throughout the eighteenth century and survived as an imperial power until the end of the nineteenth century, when it succumbed to British rule
