Extractions: The project aims to establish the basis for international recognition, conservation and sustainable management of Globally Important Ingenious Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) and their associated landscapes, biodiversity, knowledge systems and cultures throughout the world. Specific action programmes will be developed in 5-10 pilot sites/ systems, as well as activities to leverage global, regional and national policy and institutional support. In many countries specific agricultural systems and landscapes have been created, shaped and maintained by generations of farmers and herders based on diverse species and their interactions and using locally adapted, distinctive and often ingenious combinations of management practices and techniques. Building on dynamic local knowledge and experience, these ingenious agricultural systems reflect the evolution of humanity and its profound harmony with nature. They have resulted not only in outstanding aesthetic beauty, maintenance of globally significant agricultural biodiversity, resilient ecosystems and valuable cultural inheritance but, above all, in the sustained provision of multiple goods and services, food and livelihood security and quality of life.
MOST Ethno-Net Publication Africa At Crossroads The family is considered the most important social value in the bamileke region, How conflict can rekindle interest in indigenous Knowledge http://www.ethnonet-africa.org/pubs/crossroadsnji.htm
Extractions: Tel. (237) 345 20 63 The data for this study are derived from a synthesis of OCISCA field studies in the Bafou Observatory, near Dschang. Some of the data obtained from another study sponsored by the African Development Foundation (ADF) on "the impact of the devaluation of the CFA franc within the first 24 months following the devaluation of January 1994" are also integrated into this analysis. While this support is hereby acknowledged, the authors claim ownership of the ideas expressed in this paper. Abstract This paper analyzes the traps and triumphs (benefits) of peasant agriculture in the Bamileke region of Cameroon after the devaluation of the CFA Franc in January 1994. Using empirical data collected between 1992 and 1994, this study shows that 1990 was the turning point in the lives of agricultural producers in Cameroon in general, and the peasant coffee producers of the Western High lands of Cameroon in particular. Commodity prices on the world market improved to the satisfaction, albeit short-lived, of producers of primary products such as cocoa and coffee.
The First Masks Over thirty thousand years ago, somewhere in africa, an indigenous Hunter had a idea For early indigenous peoples, masks were a way to the gods, and http://www.africans-art.com/index.php3?action=page&id_art=28378
Years Of Anguish: A Political RPG - List Of Ethnic Groups: Baka one of the Pygmy peoples of central africa. See also Twa, Aka, Mbuti,Binga and Gelli Dagestani peoples - indigenous groups of northern Caucasus http://yearsofanguish.proboards41.com/index.cgi?board=join&action=display&thread
Extractions: Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas Sotheby's Saturday, May 19, 2001, 10:15AM Sale 7659 By Carter B. Horsley This season Sotheby's has combined its Tribal Art, American Indian Art and Pre-Columbian Art auctions into one catalogue. The 87 lots of Oceanic Art start the auction at 10:15AM, Saturday, May 19, 2001, followed by 159 lots of the arts of Africa. The afternoon session, which starts at 2PM, will begin with 27 lots of American Indian Art, the smallest number in many seasons, followed by 148 lots of Pre-Columbian Art. While the sale recorded some good prices, only 75.66 percent of the 419 offered lots sold fora total of $6,767,745 including the buyer's premiums. Oceanic Art The Oceanic section of this auction has many fine works included a superb canoe prow, a fine canoe splash board, a wonderful dance paddle, an excellent gope board, a nice "pig killer," a fine ancestor plaque, and some good masks. Lot 38, canoe prow, 83 inches long, Geelvink Bay, Irian Jaya The canoe prow, shown, above, Lot 38, comes from the Geelvink Bay in Irian Jaya and measures 83 inches in length and has a conservative estimate of $60,000 to $90,000. It sold for $55, 375 including the buyer's premium as do all results mentioned in this article.
List Of Ethnic Groups -- Facts, Info, And Encyclopedia Article (A member of a Caucasoid Muslim people of northern africa) Berbers a (An area (Click link for more info and facts about Northern indigenous peoples of http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_ethnic_groups.htm
Extractions: A group can have several names (e.g., names in (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English language and in native language, obsolete names, versions of spelling, etc.) (Click link for more info and facts about Abenaki) Abenaki (Any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived) Native Americans of (The largest province of Canada; a French colony from 1663 to 1759 when it was lost to the British) Quebec (A state in New England) Vermont (A state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies) New Hampshire , and possibly (A state in New England) Maine (Click link for more info and facts about Algonquin people) Algonquin people
REGIONAL INTEGRATION AND COOPERATION IN WEST AFRICA african peoples separated by great distances have developed similar institutions This contrasts with the situation in Southern africa, where indigenous http://web.idrc.ca/openebooks/812-0/
Asia Times In southern africa, Englishspeaking whites, thanks to the gargantuan head start of The bamileke of Cameroon and the Susu of Guinea are other indigenous http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/EF07Aa01.html
Extractions: Can two seemingly unrelated issues like globalization and violent ethnonationalism actually have a priori linkages? Yale University professor Amy Chua's new book takes the globalization debate into uncharted territory via myriad comparative examples to show the explosive collision between free market democracy and ethnic hatred. Chua begins with the murder of her Chinese Filipina aunt in Manila, an expression of the extreme frustration and anger of the indigenous majority towards Chinese "outsiders" who dominate key sectors of the Philippines' increasingly globalized economy. Plutocrats of Chinese descent, whose fortunes have ballooned due to free market economic policies, appear "to the vast majority of Filipinos as exploiters, as foreign intruders, their wealth inexplicable, their superiority intolerable". (p 4) The same story is being replayed in many other parts of Southeast Asia. In Burma's new liberalized economy, Sino-Burmese minorities have been transformed into a garishly prosperous business community that monopolizes the gem, teak wood and light consumer industries. "Today, ordinary Burmans speak of 'the Chinese invasion' or 'recolonization by the Chinese'." Vietnam's post-1988 pro-market reforms have also marked the resurgence of Chinese commercial dominance at the expense of the impoverished locals. Here too, there is a bitter outcry against "the Chinese stranglehold".
Extractions: Baptist World Alliance Heritage and Identity Commission Paper July 2001 Charlottetown PEI JAMAICAN AND BRITISH BAPTISTS IN WEST AFRICA, 1841-1888 by Paul R. Dekar, Niswonger Professor of Evangelism and Missions, Memphis Theological Seminary, 168 East Parkway South, Memphis TN USA 38104. (c) Paul R. Dekar After three years of United States government and church service in Cameroon, Dekar wrote a Ph.D. thesis on Presbyterian work in Cameroon (University of Chicago, 1978). From 1976-1995 he taught at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Books include For the Healing of the Nations (Macon: Smyth and Helwys, 1993) and Holy Boldness: Practices of an Evangelistic Lifestyle (Macon: Smyth and Helwys, in press). Abstract This article surveys West Africa outreach between 1841-1888 by the London-based Baptist Missionary Society (hereafter BMS) and the Kingston-based Jamaican Baptist Missionary Society (hereafter JBMS). Documentation focuses on responses of mission board leaders, missionaries, the local Creole community and African Christians to the reality of growing interference by European powers and the imposition of colonial rule on the region. This case study elucidates the complex role of missionaries in the process by which the West came to exercise political and economic domination of Africa. It complements a survey of the role of black Americans in the Protestant missionary movement in Africa.(1) Introduction This study explores the complex role of missionaries in the process by which the West came to exercise political and economic domination of Africa. As a case study, the article surveys West Africa outreach between 1841-1888 by the London-based BMS and the Kingston-based JBMS. The period encompasses crucial dates, including
Joshua Project - People Clusters Songhai, Soninke, South American indigenous, South Asian peoples, generic,South Himalaya bamilekeBakwa, Bakoa, 1200, 1, 0, 0.0 %, 0, 0.0 %, NAB57a http://www.joshuaproject.net/peopcluster.php?rop2=C0034
Musées Afrique Exposition Ulwazi Lwemvelo indigenous Knowledge in South africa Yaounde.Musée National. Arts du Cameroun Bamoun, bamileke, etc. http://www2.unil.ch/gybn/Arts_Peuples/Ex_Africa/ex_Af_musaf.html
Extractions: Cape Town South African National Gallery Government Avenue ma-di 10-17 Arts de la perle / Expositions temporaires Cape Town Gold of Africa Museum . Martin Melck House 96 Strand Street Bijoux d'or d'Afrique de l'Ouest (coll Barbier-Mueller); objets d'or des civilisations d'Afrique australe Cape Town - Gardens South African Museum 25 Queen Victoria Street lu-di 10-17 terres cuites de Lydenburg San (peintures rupestres), Zimb abwe Tsonga , Khoikhoi, Sotho, Nguni, Shona, Lovedu... Exposition " Ulwazi Lwemvelo - Indigenous Knowledge in South Africa Cape Town - Rosebank University of Cape Town Irma Stern Museum Cecil Road ma-sa 10-17 Arts de Zanzibar et du Congo: Lega, Luba Durban Art Gallery City Hall lu-sa 8.30-16; di 11-16 Durban Local History Museum Aliwal Street East London East London Museum lu-ve 9.30-17; sa 9.30-12
Comparative Criminology | Africa - Cameroon World africa Cameroon In 1955, the outlawed Union of the peoples ofCameroon (UPC), based largely among the bamileke and Bassa ethnic groups, http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/rwinslow/africa/cameroon.html
Extractions: The earliest inhabitants of Cameroon were probably the Bakas (Pygmies). They still inhabit the forests of the south and east provinces. Bantu speakers originating in the Cameroonian highlands were among the first groups to move out before other invaders. During the late 1770s and early 1800s, the Fulani, a pastoral Islamic people of the western Sahel, conquered most of what is now northern Cameroon, subjugating or displacing its largely non-Muslim inhabitants. Although the Portuguese arrived on Cameroon's coast in the 1500s, malaria prevented significant European settlement and conquest of the interior until the late 1870s, when large supplies of the malaria suppressant, quinine, became available. The early European presence in Cameroon was primarily devoted to coastal trade and the acquisition of slaves. The northern part of Cameroon was an important part of the Muslim slave trade network. The slave trade was largely suppressed by the mid-l9th century. Christian missions established a presence in the late 19th century and continue to play a role in Cameroonian life. Beginning in 1884, all of present-day Cameroon and parts of several of its neighbors became the German colony of Kamerun, with a capital first at Buea and later at Yaounde. After World War I, this colony was partitioned between Britain and France under a June 28, 1919 League of Nations mandate. France gained the larger geographical share, transferred outlying regions to neighboring French colonies, and ruled the rest from Yaounde. Britain's territorya strip bordering Nigeria from the sea to Lake Chad, with an equal populationwas ruled from Lagos.
The Anthropology Of Anger Chapter 3 A crossroads of peoples and civilizations, africa is first of all a profusion of bamileke or Yoruba art objects are assessed on the scale of values http://www.ciaonet.org/book/monga/monga03.html
Nicodemus Fru Awasom - The Reunification Question In Cameroon It presented a countercurrent in postcolonial africa to the prevailing trend The Bamum and bamileke peoples in the British South Cameroons were either http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/v047/47.2awasom.html
African Indigenous People Bamileke From African Art Museum http//www.zyama.com/Grassland/index.htm bamileke People The bamileke are part of a larger cultural area known collectively http://www.archaeolink.com/african_indigenous_people_bamile.htm
Extractions: Bamileke Home Africa, African Anthropology General Resources By peoples Akan Akuapem Akye Anyi ... Bamileke Art Here is a good overview of Bamileke art with a fairly large gallery. - From African Art Museum - http://www.zyama.com/Grassland/index.htm Bamileke People "The Bamileke are part of a larger cultural area known collectively as the Cameroon Grasslands. Within the Bamileke complex there are numerous smaller peoples who are loosely affiliated and share many similarities while retaining separate identities. The Bamileke originally came from an area to the north known as Mbam, which is today occupied by the Tikar." You will find material related to history, culture, political structure, art and more. - From University of Iowa - http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Bamileke.html Web archaeolink.com Top of Page
MAR | Data | Minority Group Assessments For All Regions Bolivia, indigenous Highland peoples indigenous. Bolivia, Lowland indigenouspeoples United States of America, AfricanAmericans ethnoclass http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/assessments.asp?regionId=99
African Art On The Internet Rand African Art Sculpture, bamileke elephant masks,etc. African Weaving (onthe kente weavers of the Asante and Ewe people of Ghana, http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/art.html
Extractions: "Ethiopia’s leading artist." Biography, his paintings, sculptures, mosaics, murals, art in the artist's home. Afewerk created the stained-glass windows at the entrance of Africa Hall, headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. "In 1964, he became the first winner of the Haile Selassie I prize for Fine Arts." "In 2000, he was one of the few chosen World Laureates by the council of the ABI on the occasion of the 27th International Millennium Congress on the Arts and Communication in Washington DC." He painted Kwame Nkrumah's portrait and was awarded the American Golden Academy Award and the Cambridge Order of Excellence England. Prints of his work may be purchased online. http://www.afewerktekle.org
Cameroon Cameroun On The Internet The web site for her course peoples and Cultures of africa has Le cas deBamileke Three page article by A. Kom from the Universite de Yaounde, http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/camer.html
Extractions: The Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database has citations to journal articles from the mid-19th c. to date and indexes the e-journals - Africa Update, African Studies Quarterly, Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography, Internet Journal of African Studies, Jouvert, a Journal of Postcolonial Studies, West African Review. Maintained by Davis Bullwinkle. http://WWW.AfricaBib.Org American School of Yaounde, Cameroon (ASOY
List Of Ethnic Groups - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia of African slaves repatriated to Liberia Amhara indigenous people ofcentral Ethiopia Dagestani peoples - indigenous groups of northern Caucasus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups
Extractions: Contents: Top A B C ... edit Abenaki Native Americans of Quebec Vermont New Hampshire , and possibly Maine Algonquin people Abkhaz - Minority in Georgia Turkey and Russia , majority (since 1993 civil war) in Abkhazia Aborigine , an aboriginal inhabitant of Australia Acadian French-Canadians of the Canadian Maritimes Accohannock Native Americans of Maryland Achang Yunnan China ... Native Americans of California Acoma Native Americans of the southwest United States and Mexico Adja - Minority in Benin Adyghe - Minority in Russia , in the north Caucasus region. Afar - A tribal people in Ethiopia Eritrea and Djibouti . Also known as Danakil African-American Americans of African descent Afrikaners - descendants of Dutch settlers / French Huguenot Africa Afro-Cuban Afromestizos ... Agni - minority group in C´te d'Ivoire Aguls Dagestani minority group Ahtna - Native Alaskans , along the Copper River Aimaks - Minority group in Afghanistan Aimaq - Minority group in Afghanistan Ainu - Natives of Hokkaido , much of Sakhalin , the Kuriles , and at one time northern Honshu , the Kamchatka Peninsula , and the Amur River basin Aja - Minority group in Benin Ak Chin Native American group now resident in Pinal County, Arizona
