Africa Indigenous People Baule africa, african Anthropology General Resources. By peoples. Luchazi Luluwa Lunda Luvale Lwalwa Maasai Makonde Mambila Mangbetu Manja Mbole mende Mitsogo Mossi http://www.archaeolink.com/africa_indigenous_people_baule.htm
Extractions: Baule Home Africa, African Anthropology General Resources By peoples Akan Akuapem Akye Anyi ... Zulu ArtWorld AFRICA - Baule "One of the Akan group sharing similar language and, in general, matrilineal inheritance. They broke away from the Asante of Ghana in the 18th century, bringing with them craftsmanship in gold and gold leaf decoration." - From University of Durham - http://artworld.uea.ac.uk/teaching_modules/africa/cultural_groups_by_country/baule/welcome.html Baule People "The Baule belong to the Akan peoples who inhabit Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. Three hundred years ago the Baule people migrated westward from Ghana when the Asante rose to power. The tale of how they broke away from the Asante has been preserved in their oral traditions." You will find material related to history, culture, religion, political structure, art and more. - From University of Iowa - http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Baule.html
Minorities At Risk (MAR) 3979. 0.0360. indigenous peoples. NIGERIA. OGONI. 553. 0.0800. communal contender. SIERRA LEONE. mende. 1534. 0.3000. 0.1200. communal contender. SOUTH africa. ASIANS. 1114. http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/data/africatbl.htm
African Timelines Part III of african peoples beyond the continent of africa, focusing research Nevertheless africas indigenous personality has managed to Amistad+(1997. mende the ethnic group of "Cinque http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline3.htm
Extractions: 1830-the end: http://innercity.org/holt/chron_1830_end.html late 15 th c. Kingdom of Kongo flourished on the Congo River (modern Zaire, now Republic of Congo), a confederation of provinces under the manikongo (the king; "mani" means blacksmith, denoting the early importance and spiritual power of iron working)
Commentaries The Afrocentric Experience provides information on Black Writers, Kwanzaa, african Names, the island state of St.Kitts Nevis and Much, Much More. both hurts economies and limits indigenous sources of food local population (the mende and Temne peoples) on the bottom Many of the peoples of West africa trace their origins http://www.swagga.com/arthurlewin.htm
Extractions: AFRICAN SCIENCE .....August 20th 2003 An animal bone, with markings used for counting, discovered in South Africa is estimated to be more than 35,000 years old. Another bone, the so-called "Ishango Bone," found in the Democratic Republic of Congo, not only has markings for counting, but also a series of prime numbers which indicate it was used for calculating. It is over 10,000 years old. Agriculture, the purposeful planting, cultivating and harvesting of foodstuffs, has been going on in the Nile Valley for 18,000 years. Steel was produced in furnaces in Tanzania 2,000 years ago. And there were astronomical observatories in Kenya in 300 BC. Furthermore, its believed that shafts located in the 5,000 year old Great Pyramid at Giza functioned as observatories for viewing the star Sirius and other heavenly bodies. The Dogon people of Mali, and other ethnic groups living in the vicinity of the city of Timbuktu, have an intimate knowledge of this solar system, the Sirius star system, and the shape and functioning of the galaxy. When Europeans first encountered them, they thought the Dogon beliefs were fables until, that is, the Europeans developed telescopes and realized that they were not.
H-Net Review: Elizabeth Akingbola On Fiona Macdonald, Ed., Peoples Of Africa Fiona Macdonald, ed.peoples of africa. 11 volumes. Tarrytown, NY Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2001. 648 pp. Bibliography, index, pronunciation guide, timelines, maps. $ 471.36 (cloth), ISBN 07614-7158-8. The chapters separate indigenous african beliefs from Christianity and Islam across the continent. A mende man in Sierra Leone who http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=40801012584859
UNDP/CSOPP Documents: Conserving Indigenous Knowledge . . . africa commonly use 106 species. The importance of "partner" species to the food supply of indigenous communities is illustrated by the example of the mende indigenous peoples' use http://www.undp.org/csopp/CSO/NewFiles/dociknowledge2.html
Extractions: II. Issues and Trends in Biodiversity Over 90 percent of the earth's remaining biological diversity is in the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia, and South America. Seven percent of the earth's surface hosts between half and three quarters of the world's biological diversity Most Biodiversity Found in Developing Countries Example after example illustrates how much more Biodiversity can be found in developing than in developed countries. There is more Biodiversity on a tiny island off the coast of Panama than there is in the entire British Isles. Panama, in fact, is less than one third the size of the United Kingdom, yet it has more than five times as many vertebrate species. Costa Rica is less than a tenth the size of France, but has almost three times more vertebrate species. A single hectare near Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia holds half as many plant species as can be found in all of Denmark. A small volcano near the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines has more tree species than Canada, and a 15 hectare plot in Borneo has more woody species than all of North America. Figure III shows the vast differences in plant species in selected countries.
The Probert Encyclopaedia - People And Peoples (M-N) Despite Madagascar's proximity to africa, Malagasy contains only a mende. The mende are a west african people living humans, including the indigenous peoples of Asia, the Indians http://www.fas.org/news/reference/probert/CA.HTM
INTERNATIONAL LIST traces the history of this song, a burial hymm of the mende SUBJECT = Women, Black South africa History 19th century. SUBJECT = indigenous peoples Exhibitions http://www.lib.jmu.edu/media/InterList.htm
Extractions: Media Resources for Black History Month TITLE = Africa before the Europeans, 100-1500 [videorecording] / Network Television/Goldcrest Television ; producer, Nicholas Barton ; director, David Wright. CALL # = Videotape no.6068. PUBLISHER = Falls Church, VA : Landmark Films, c1984. DESCRIPT. = 1 videocassette (26 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. NOTE = Describes the civilizations and empires of Africa before the arrival of the Europeans. Tells how the Bantu people left their homeland in the Cameroons and displaced the people in the south. SUBJECT = Africa History To 1498. SUBJECT = Bantu-speaking peoples Migrations. TITLE = Africa [videorecording] : continent of contrasts / Mary Lee Nolan. CALL # = Videotape no.5344. PUBLISHER = Huntsville, TX : Educational Video Network, 1994. DESCRIPT. = 1 videocassette (35 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 guide. SUBJECT = Africa History. SUBJECT = Africa Description and travel. TITLE = Africa dreaming [videorecording]. CALL # = Videotape no.6215.
Extractions: updated: October 2002 In documents and statements the GfbV publishes her research on cases of human rights violations committed against religious and/or ethnic minorities, among them the Indigenous Peoples. A selection of our publications is translated into english. Excerpts are published here. For more information's please visit the German site as well. Asia Africa Australia ... Statements at the United Nations NEW: statements to the 57th session of the UN Human Rights Commission Canada / USA Helping the victims of terror worldwide Middle East Asia Expelled and Impoverished - India's Native Inhabitants GfbV Documentation on the Adivasi - Part 1 (Feb. 2001) No peace for Mindanao - Background about the civil war 4 May 2000 Support for India's Adivasi Portrait of Adivasi Koordination Deutschland Africa Mende Nazer would face persecution in case of deportation to Sudan Documentary, 31.October 2002
People And Plants Online - Handbook 2 - National Organizations peoples from Asia, the Pacific, africa and the Solagral Montpellier, 3191 route de mende, BP 5056 expertise on the subject of indigenous peoples rights, land http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/peopleplants/handbook/handbook2/national.htm
Extractions: Main About Us Publications and Videos Regions and Themes ... Feedback Cultural Survival Canada -GJM From: a leaflet produced by Cultural Survival Canada. CONTACT Back Solagral Solagral, under the guidance of Marcel Marloie and Laurence Tubiana, has been generating debate on important global issues since 1980. The networking activities of Solagral have brought together individuals from a variety of sectors, such as cooperation and development organizations, the media and research institutes, in an effort to bring about a rethinking of regulations at local, national and international levels for major issues such as food problems, liberalization of the economy and environmental policies
Excerpts From of african peoples and of the indigenous peoples of the The peoples of West africa and Middle America, as well In some languages, such as mende of Sierra leeone http://www.ethnomath.org/resources/ISGEm/049.htm
Extractions: By Claudia Zaslavsky The mathematics eduction community in the United States is embarking upon a program to reach all students. As stated in the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM): "It is crucial that conscious efforts be made to encourage all students, especially young women and minorities, to pursue mathematics." (p.68) Recognition is given to the varied backgrounds and interests of the students: "Students should have numerous and varied experiences related to the cultural, historical and scientific evolution of mathematics. (p. 5) Students' cultural backgrounds should be integrated into the learning experiences. (p.68) "The ethnic groups that have lived longest in the Americas and who have been most oppressed are the Native peoples and the Africans who were brought to the New World in chains, to serve as slaves to European plantation owners. Now their descendants are determined to reassert their cultural heritage."
Africa History Though this is inevitable for most indigenous peoples. is the evil of the selfish, heartless people who bought as it is to r Written by mende Nazer , Damien http://20th-century-history-books.com/Africa_History.html
Extractions: The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in Long Walk to Freedom. A good deal of this autobiography was written secretly while Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by South Africa's apartheid regime. Among the book's interesting revelations is Mandela's ambivalence toward his lifetime of devotion to public works. It cost him two marriages and kept him distant from a family life he might otherwise have cherished. Long Walk to Freedom also discl... "Hutus kill Tutsis, then Tutsis kill Hutusif that's really all there is to it, then no wonder we can't be bothered with it," Philip Gourevitch writes, imagining the response of somebody in a country far from the ethnic strife and mass killings of Rwanda. But the situation is not so simple, and in this complex and wrenching book, he explains why the Rwandan genocide should not be written off as just another tribal dispute. The "stories" in this book's subtitle are both the author's, as he r...
UNJLC - About Liberia Vai, Dei, Belle, Mandingo, and mende, AmericoLiberians (2.5 between the Europeans colonising West africa and the and to allow the indigenous peoples a greater http://www.unjlc.org/content/index.phtml/itemId/17304
Resources / Land GENDER AND RESOURCE USE AMONG THE mende OF GOLA declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples (SubCommission OF LAND AND PROPERTY IN EASTERN africa Diana Lee http://www.earthsummit2002.org/wcaucus/Resources/land/land.htm
Extractions: CSD NGO Steering Committee CSD NGO Women's Caucus Resources: Land Resources We are constantly gathering useful resources, references, networking information, etc. Please let us know which other references should be included! Reports, Books, Articles Web-Sites Discussion Groups Reports, Books, Articles RAINFOREST RELATIONS: GENDER AND RESOURCE USE AMONG THE MENDE OF GOLA, SIERRA LEONE hardback - International African Library 13. Published in association with the International African This book brings forest dwellers' own differentiated perspectives to current rainforest debates. After reviewing changing conservation agendas, and gender and environment approaches, it draws on detailed fieldwork to examine the importance of forest resources to local economy and society, and how dynamic gender relations condition women's and men's different environmental relations. It shows that neither an understanding of forest use and change, nor adequate conservation policies, can be achieved without a concern for gender.
Extractions: Response to Information Request Number: LBR01001.ZNK Date: 5 October 2000 Subject: Liberia: Information on the physical markings of various ethnic groups From: INS Resource Information Center, Washington, D.C. Keywords: Liberia / ethnic minorities / ethnicity / cultural identity / cultural integration / ethnic community organizations / cultural heritage / indigenous peoples Query: Do any of the ethnic groups in Liberia have distinctive or unique physical markings that are only utilized by their particular group? Response: The Kissi group marks its members with three scars on each cheek. They also file or otherwise shape the two middle upper teeth into a triangle. Though this is a traditional cultural practice, it is decreasing due to modernization and Westernization in Liberia. Liberian journalist Kenneth Best knew of no other tribe in Liberia that marked its members in such a fashion (Best, 25 August 2000). The Kissi live in upper Lofa County at the conjunction of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. They number approximately 441,000, 115,000 of which are in Liberia. The Kissi are predominantly rice cultivators and are one of only two ethnic groups to be directly descended from the original inhabitants of Liberia (Minority Rights Group International 1997, 428). The Poro society, which is a secret men's society which permeates Liberian life, also marks its members. Boys who have completed initiation rites are marked by scarification on the back and often on the chest and stomach as well. These societies draw members from the Kpelle, Mende, Loma, and Mano groups (
Africa Book Centre Ltd Slavery centralized states it developed from indigenous servitude to mende Nazer grew up in the remote Nuba role in savage developments between peoples and continents. http://www.africabookcentre.com/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Slavery_123.html
People And Peoples (MP) The mende language belongs to the NigerCongo family. to one of the three major races of humans, mainly the indigenous peoples of Subsaharan africa and some http://www.sneaker.net.au/docs/encyclo/C5.HTM
African Studies Video Titles this song, a burial hymm of the mende people brought by explores the unique cultures, marvels of nature, indigenous peoples and remote lands of africa. http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/africa/afrvid.htm
Extractions: at Ohio University There are over 200 Africa-related video and film titles in the Library. One way to browse the collection is to search ALICE, the Library's Catalog, in the "Limiting-to-Video-Mode" by "Africa" as a subject for example, then browse your results. In searching for a particular title, a new acquistion, or rather specific topic the above video mode provides good results. However, for 'one-stop' overview of all African related video the following title list is useful. Note: It is quite likely that a given title can only be used on campus.
University Of Auckland of development in subSaharan africa, Society for mende rice farming, in EJ Croll and D Toward Traditional Resource Rights for indigenous peoples and Local http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/ant/339/readings 339.htm
Extractions: University of Auckland Department of Anthropology Applied Anthropology and Development, 1st semester 2002 List of Recommended Readings Abdoellah, Oekan Soekotjo. 1993. Indonesian transmigrants and adaptation: an ecological anthropological perspective . Berkeley: Centres for South and Southeast Asia Studies, University of California at Berkeley. 307.2 A13 TAMAKI Alcorn, J.B., 1995, Ethnobotanical Knowledge Systems A resource for meeting rural development goals, in Warren, D.M., L.J. Slikkerveer, D. Brokensha (eds.) The Cultural Dimension of Development: Indigenous Knowledge Systems , London: Intermediate Technology Publications, p. 1-12 Angrosino, Michael V. (ed.), 1976, Do applied anthropologists apply anthropology? Athens: University of Georgia Press. Amin, Samir 1990. Maldevelopment . London: Zed Books. 338.9 A51m ANU Development Studies Centre. 1985. Women in development in the South Pacific: barriers and opportunities . Development Studies Centre. Canberra: Australian National University. 301.412099 W87 NZP
