Extractions: CFP Report 23 - Farming in the Shadow of the City: Changes in Land Rights and Livelihoods in Peri-Urban Accra Documento(s) 23 de 40 Daniel Maxwell (International Food Policy Research Institute, USA), Wordsworth Odame Larbi (Lands Commission, Ghana), and Grace Mary Lamptey, Sawudatu Zakariah, and Margaret Armar-Klemesu (University of Ghana, Ghana) (1998)
Extractions: The Amazing This place is designed to provide students and others interested in the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and ancient civilizations a one stop resource for homework help or other projects. While that is still the main theme of the site, it is now expanding into other realms and disciplines ranging from gardening to astronomy and much more. You will find numerous resources (currently over fifteen thousand and climbing ) divided by topic. best viewed with 600 x 800 resolution. Web archaeolink.com For your convenience, you may explore each section from its own index, found immediately below - - Or, to explore the whole website from one place, just scroll on down this page ( site map ) picking and choosing what you like. Archaeology Pages Index - General archaeological information plus archaeology by region era, and specialty plus much more. Anthropology Pages Index - General anthropology information; cultural, linguistic, early man, cyberanthropology; plus indigenous peoples; by tribe and region; peoples of Africa, Asia, South America, religious anthropology and more.
AKAN (FANTSE) - ENGLISH DICTIONARY PROJECT Standardized orthographies exist for Asante Twi, akuapem Twi and Fantse. to convert the indigenous people of Elmina to Christianity, and by 1529, http://www.cfiks.org/fantse_dictionary.htm
Extractions: AKAN (FANTSE) - ENGLISH DICTIONARY PROJECT This project aims to develop a comprehensive dictionary of Akan (Fantse) with English translation and an up-to-date bibliographic information on the language. Since J. G. Christaller published A Grammar of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Twi) based on the Akuapem Dialect with Reference to Other Dialects in 1875 and A Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Twi) in 1881, and the Committee developed a unified orthography for Akan in 1975, there has not been any undertaking to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of any of the dialects of the Akan (Fantse and Twi) language. Publications (both print and electronic) resulting from this project will be an important boost to Akan linguistic studies, and will aid scholars and teachers in the study and teaching of the Akan language and the history and culture of the Akan people. Scholars engaged in Africa and diaspora studies, religion, sciences and multicultural education will benefit greatly from this project as the documents to be produced as a result of this project will be in Akan and English. There has been increased commercial, educational, and cultural interactions between Ghana and the rest of the world in recent years. Culturally, a lot of the tourism attractions in
AIO Keywords List Mali The African country, for Mali of India, use Mali (Indian people); Mali empire Tribal peoples see Adivasi (India), Ethnic groups, indigenous peoples http://aio.anthropology.org.uk/aio/keywords.html
Extractions: Abagusii see Gusii Kenya Aban see Shor Abandoned settlements Abashevo culture Abbasids see also Islamic empire Abduction Abelam Abenaki North American Indians (Algonquian) Northeast Abetalipoproteinaemia Abidjan Ability Abkhazia Abnormalities ABO blood-group system Abolitionists Abominable snowman see Yeti Aboriginal studies Abortion Abrasion Absahrokee language see Crow language Absaraka language see Crow language Absaroka language see Crow language Absaroke language see Crow language Absolutism see Despotism Abu Hureyra site Abusir site Abydos site Academic controversies see also Scientific controversies Academic freedom Academic publishing see Scholarly publishing Academic status Academic writing Academics Acadians (Louisiana) see Cajuns Accents and accentuation Accidents see also Traffic accidents Acclimatisation Accra Accreditation Acculturation see also Assimilation Acetylcholine receptors Achaemenid dynasty (559-330 BC) Achaemenid empire Ache see Guayaki: Acheulian culture Achik see Garo Achinese language Achuar Achumawi Acidification Acquiescence Acquired immune deficiency syndrome see AIDS Acronyms Action theory Acupuncture Adam and Eve Adamawa emirate Adapidae see also Notharctus Adaptation Adat Adena culture Adhesives Adipocere Adisaiva see Adisaivar Adisaivar Adivasi Adjectives Adjustment (psychology) Administration see also Government, Management, etc.
Extractions: 2 interior low voltage lights above the mask. Dan masks are characterized by a concave face, a protruding mouth, high-domed forehead and are often covered in a rich brown patina. There are a variety of Dan face masks, each of which has a different function. They may be the intermediaries, who acts between the village and the forest initiation camp, may act against bush fires during the dry season, used in pre-war ceremonies, for peace-making ceremonies, for entertainment.
Extractions: Diversity in Ghana Ghana is known as the "Land of Gold" because of its gold and mineral resources. Another rich resource in Ghana is the diversity of religious and cultural groups that make up its population. Within Ghana's 95,373 square miles, there are four major religions, five major ethnic groups, and at least nine languages, plus a myriad of regional languages and religions. The people of Ghana belong to both the larger African family and to smaller ethnic groups. It is estimated, based on language, that there are at least 75 different ethnic groups in Ghana. The largest groups are: Akan, Dagomba, Ga, Gurma, and Ewe. (For more on the ethnic groups of Ghana, visit Ghana Home Page .) Many of these groups migrated into Ghana within the last 700 to 1,000 years. Black Africans compose 99.8 percent of the population (18.9 million) in Ghana.
INTRODUCTION Ideas and Social Values of African peoples (Oxford Oxford University Press,1954). But our indigenous proverbs also frequently encapsulate abstract http://www.crvp.org/book/Series02/II-1/introduction.htm
Extractions: Ghanaian culture is a highly philosophical culture. This is seen in the fact that `traditional life in our country is guided at many points by conceptions that might broadly be called philosophical.' Thus customs relating to procreation, work, leisure, death and sundry circumstances of life are based on or reflect doctrines about God, mind, goodness, destiny and human personality that most adult Ghanaians will articulate at the slightest prompting. And if one were to come in contact with the genuine philosophers among our traditional folk, one would hear not only articulations but also explanations, elaborations, and critiques of these doctrines and much else besides. Readers of W. E. Abraham's The Mind of Africa (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962) or Kwame Gyekye's An Essay on African Philosophical Thought: The Akan Conceptual Scheme (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987) will get a good idea of the contours of that public philosophy. Given that Ghanaian life is suffused with speculative thought, it is not surprising that many of our eminent contemporary public leaders have attached the greatest importance to philosophy by both word and work. J. B. Danquah wrote
HDS - CSWR - Former Fellows among the Wèspeaking people in Canton Bô, Côte dIvoire, West africa. akuapem people use Odwira to define, depict, and interpret the kingship and 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.
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Extractions: Promoting the expansion of the Internet in Ghana including infrastructure, value-added services, content, use and technical advancement. Particular attention on reaching the rural communities in a manner and language suitable for their participation. Membership, activities, press releases and FAQ. African Security Dialogue and Research http://www.africansecurity.org/
AllAfrica.com Ghana Let S Grow Enough Fish To Eat institute, research into tilapia and other indigenous fish species akuapem Southhas 33 ponds on 10.76 ha JJ Rawlings reintroduced the people s farms and fish http://allafrica.com/stories/200111160486.html
SERSAS Asante was related to the royal family of neighbouring akuapem, 69, andAgbodeka, Francis, African Politics and British Policy in the Gold Coast http://www.ecu.edu/african/sersas/Papers/GetzTrevorFall2001.htm
Extractions: tgetz@uno.edu The question of 'why' and 'how' Europe came to dominate Africa under a colonial model has, in the past, been subjected to a variety of debates. Recently, the focus of this discourse has shifted from Europe to Africa, and from the general to the specific. These shifts have created a useful place for case studies of partition and pacification, in which the relationships between Europeans and Africans can be seen to play a large role in shaping the imposition of colonialism. Such studies bring to light a series of previously largely invisible actors in the persons of indigenous elites and various middlemen. Perhaps one of the most compelling stories of this type to emerge from my own research surrounds the gradual subjugation of the independent Akan polity of Akyem Abuakwa to the British Gold Coast administration in a process which highlights the roles not only of the British and Akyem political figures, but also a host of middlemen. It is the actions of these groups that largely drive the changing relationship between the British administrators and the Paramount Chief of Akyem Abuakwa during this period - Okyenhene Amoako Atta I.
Jenne-jeno, An Ancient African City in helping us understand the indigenous context of the first unambiguous evidenceof North African or Islamic Some people likely converted to Islam and moved http://www.webzinemaker.net/africans-art/index.php3?action=page&id_art=30779
Extractions: Registered: Oct 2004 posted 13 November 2004 09:49 AM This author, Dr. Nana Banchie Darkwah, is a Akan (Ghanian) king. In his book "The Africans Who Wrote The Bible" he asserts that the Akan [ukAn´, Ak´un] people were the core of Egyptian society. He primarily uses one discipline and that is linguistics. For example, everybody knows of the ancient king Akhenaten. In Dr. Darkwah's books he says that the name "Akhenaten" is a transposed African name. "Akhenaten" is the Greek translation of the royal (Denkyira) name "Akenten". Even today the current Denkyirahene king is named Nana (King) Oti Akenten. Another example is the boy king "Tutankhamun". In his book Dr. Nana Banchie says this is another Greek translation of the royal Akuapem names "Tutu" and "Ankoma". Dr. Darkwah is Aduana royalty himself and apparently he has a book called "Egypt: The story Africa has never told" in the works.
My Listings African indigenous Religion like all religions accepts God as the The beautifulAfrican clothes were considered native and educated people did not wear http://www.iccsus.org/IstConf/310.html
ATA 31st International Congress -Accra. Ghana - May 2006 First and foremost, the people over 70 per cent of whom have functional Ghana is a melting pot, where many African ethnic cultures have mixed with http://www.africa-ata.org/ghana_background.htm
Extractions: Discover Ghana and get to know its people T here is a place on the western coast of the African. continent; its sandy shores washed clean by the Atlantic Ocean, its land rich in gold, diamonds cocoa, manganese and bauxite; inhabited by the friendliest, most open hearted people you'll find any where on earth. Its tropical rain-forest, blends with river valleys and dry Savannah plains, to create 250,000 square km of paradise for the lovers and watchers of nature's wonders. It's no accident that Ghana was once known as the 'Gold Coast,' a name bestowed on it by Portuguese traders who landed there in 1472. The legendary gold deposits of Ashante remain the world's richest and largest.
01 with brief stopovers at Mampong and Mamfe in the akuapem hills, This groupof people, wherever they are, are unknowingly counting on you to give 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;
10 Elsewhere, including the akuapem hill areas which already supplied food, The Krobo Traditional Social and Religious Life of a West African People. 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.
African Languages The remainder of the population speak indigenous African languags Balanta Most people living in the area where their first language is indigenous speak http://chora.virtualave.net/afrilang1.html
Report Of The Secretary-General On (b) Poster on the International Decade of the World s indigenous People (DPI/1813) in The African Charter on Human and People s Rights (HR/PUB/90/1) http://www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/A.53.313.En?OpenDocument
