81. In Praise Of The Word: African Oral Arts: http//www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/bamana.html and For example, modern mergers of indigenous and Western musical a joyous song of a people returning to http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/praiseword.htm

Humanities 211 (Historical Contexts, Oral Arts, Film) Prof. Cora Agatucci 6 October 1998: Learning Resources http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/SocSci/1998/ss-981006.html 2.1 IN PRAISE OF THE WORD: Traditional African Oral Arts SHORT CUTS In Praise of the Word Orality and Literacy : Different Ways of Knowing A Twi Proverb Ikemefuna's Song Fulani Poetic Genres African Music and Culture (CD) IN PRAISE OF THE WORD In many of traditional African cultures, oral arts are professionalized: the most accomplished storytellers and praise singers are initiates ( griots or bards , who have mastered many complex verbal, musical, and memory skills after years of specialized training. This training often includes a strong spiritual and ethical dimension required to control the special forces believed to be released by the spoken/sung word in oral performances. These occult powers and primal energies of creation and destruction are called nyama by Mande peoples of Western Africa, for example, and their jeli

82. Reading Public Museum: Discovery Through Art, Science And Civilization, A Museum indigenous African art falls into three sorts figurative, from the Congo is a product of the Baluba people. Wara society use the Bambara (bamana) Headdress of http://www.readingpublicmuseum.org/galleries/first/african.html

First Floor : African Ancient Civilizations Armor/Eurasian Asian ... Oceanic AFRICAN Introduction The art of Africa is a visible expression of the invisible. It combines the natural and the abstract into transcendental forms that transmit communal history, laws, moral codes and beliefs from one generation to another. There is no "art for art's sake." It is an integral part of daily life rooted in ancestral spiritual worship, funeral rites, initiation ceremonies, celebratory dance and the sacred rituals of secret societies. The African artist makes something for a particular purpose. The function of the work is paramount; in fact, some are discarded after one use if the function has been fulfilled. The African art best known in the west and best represented in the Museum began to be collected in the 19th century in the Sub-Sahara just before the culture and ethno geography of Africa began to be frozen in place by colonial empires.

83. Ron Eglash $75, and it s not hard to find people willing to R. African Fractals modern computing and indigenous design. Eglash, R. bamana sand divination recursion in http://www.rpi.edu/~eglash/eglash.dir/ethnic.dir/r4cyb.dir/r4cybh.htm

Ron Eglash and Julian Bleecker To appear in Science as Culture DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT The Race for Cyberspace: Information Technology in the Black Diaspora Barbara Christian's seminal essay, "The race for theory," analyzed the ways in which the academic competition to create a theory of black women's writing had overshadowed the potent theoretical content of the writing itself. Similarly, this essay examines how the hype over application of new information technologies to racialized social problems has overshadowed the potent technological content of the communities themselves. Focusing on the black diaspora, we broaden the category of "information technology" to show how traditions of coding and computation from indigenous African practices and black appropriations of Euro-american technologies have supported, resisted, and fused with the cybernetic histories of the west, and provide a strong source for changes in reconstructing identity, social postition and access to power in communities of the black diaspora. 1) Cyberspace as Savior In the early 1990s the internet was flooded with various versions of the "cyberspace manifesto," most of which contained something like this passage from John Perry Barlow:

84. Back To Plep Two indigenous Australian communities and 19th and 20th-century artworks such as bamana and Dogon Some people claim that only the African can really appreciate http://www.nutcote.demon.co.uk/nl04jan0610.html

Back to plep 8th January Anglo-Saxon Churches in Britain. 'Until some hundred and fifty years ago, it was widely believed that there were no remains of Anglo-Saxon architecture to be seen in Britain. Despite there being next to no surviving parts of secular buildings, Saxon features were slowly recognised in standing ancient churches and today there seem to be few church guides which do not claim some form of Saxon origin ... ' Many good links at the bottom. St. Laurence's Church, Bradford-on-Avon. Odda's Chapel, Deerhurst. Romsey Abbey, Hampshire. Monasticism in Britain. 'Monastic communities, both of men and women, have played an important role in the history of Britain. In a society which presented few options or opportunities, this way of life offered many attractions. What the life lacked in glamor, it more than made up for in serenity and stability. The monastic life offered social mobility for some, and a refuge for others. The monasteries provided the opportunity for education, freedom from some of the economic uncertainties of the times, and, often, a career path that could lead to a very high station in life ... ' I like the sound of the Cluniacs.

85. Remnants Of Ritual - The David Gelbard Collection Of African Art And Culture Understanding the indigenous language and its nuances opens a fig 75), Lobi (fig 11), or the bamana Boli (fig be specificities related to one people or another http://www.remnantsofritual.com/dialog.html

Understanding Narrative The Praise Song Cultural Borrowing Objects of Power ... In and Out of Context The second part of this introductory essay consists of conversations between the authors. Bourgeois and Rodolitz have team-taught a web-based course on this subject for more than five years utilizing a dialogue medium that lends itself to immediacy and informality. Essays in the usual sense speak TO the reader; dialogue, however, allows the reader to participate, if only in an imaginary sense. Additionally, in the medium of dialogue, the evolution of thought is more apparent than in an edited essay. Often, the journey to a conclusion is as important as the conclusion itself. The reader is encouraged to join in this ongoing exploration. AB: Why don't we begin by considering a group of related objects, not necessarily related by culture but by function?

86. Juilliard | The Juilliard Journal Online The bamana people of Mali live in a harsh environment of Islam, as well as their own indigenous culture and the mosques and other architecture of bamana villages http://www.juilliard.edu/update/journal/greta_1101.html

Vol. XVII No. 3 November 2001 West African Art’s Powers of Healing Komo mask: warakun. Koulikoro Region. Wood, animal horns, pig hairs, fiber, pignment. (The Museum for African Art) During these troubled times, one of the most stirring shows you can see is at the Museum for African Art in SoHo. This exquisitely designed museum has consistently received rave reviews for its exhibitions. The current one, featuring the art of the Bamana, is no exception, filled as it is with beauty, power, energy, and hope. Particularly timely for all of us dedicated to the arts, it begins with a wall panel explaining that the arts of Africa are considered to ensure healing. “Join us, as together, we begin to heal,” the text continues. And, indeed, as you go through the museum, you will find yourself uplifted, inspired, and cheered in both mind and spirit. Equally relevant for us is the holistic attitude towards artwork. In West Africa, art is at the very core of society, and the show includes dance, music, theater, puppetry, field photography, and video footage, as well as art objects. During the dance, when viewed in profile, the Ci-wara headdress attains its aesthetic perfection. Dyele, 1987. (Photo by Catherine De Clippel)

87. The School Of History | The University Of Liverpool Its stress on indigenous African sources is also hoped River People, Charismatic Bards, and Mischievous Music in Leiden and Boston Brill 2002) (bamanaEnglish http://www.liv.ac.uk/history/cas/asah.html

You are at: Home Prospective Students Undergraduate Programmes Postgraduate Programmes ... Faculty of Arts African Sources for African History Aim of the series: African Sources for African History is a series of critical editions of indigenous African narrative sources for the history of sub-Saharan Africa, accessible to scholars and students in Africa and elsewhere. African Sources for African History aims to give African viewpoints a more central place in the writing of African history, by making African perspectives more easily available. Its stress on indigenous African sources is also hoped to inspire individual researchers to actively search for African sources and to make these available to the wider academic community. Each year, two volumes will be published by Brill Academic Publishers . Where possible, a strictly local African edition will be published next to the international edition. Already published in the series: David C. Conrad, ed.

88. WELCOME TO THE INTERN CORNER especially the impact of Islam on indigenous religions and I asked one of the people in our cabin My companion speaks fluent bamana, the principal language in http://www1.telecomplus.sn/ncnw/intern_corner.htm

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A frican art - Ceremonial sculpture masks , and crafts produced by African tribal cultures , as well as by the African cultures of colonial and post-colonial periods. Generally African art means sub-Saharan art, with the cultures of Africa's northern parts typically referred to as Egyptian and North African. Making generalizations about the visual culture of any group of people is a crude endeavor, especially with a culture as diverse as Africa's. With this thought in mind, know that this survey, as any must be, is tremendously limited in its breadth and depth. Examples of African art: Ife (Yoruba), Nigeria, Shrine Head , 12th century - 14th century, terra cotta , 12 x 5 3/4 x 7 inches, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Mali, Bougouni or Dioila area, Bamana peoples, Mother and Child , 15th-20th century, wood height 48 5/8 inches (123.5 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Nigeria, Edo peoples, Court of Benin, Pendant Mask: Iyoba , 16th century, ivory iron copper height 9 3/8 inches (23.8 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. See mask and pendant Nigeria, Edo peoples, Court of Benin

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