Public Anthropology to the area and disrupted the conventional family bonds of the indigenous people . Savings Associations Among the bamileke Traditional and Modern http://www.publicanthropology.org/Archive/Aa1972.htm
Extractions: Acheson, James M. Limited Good or Limited Goods? Response to Economic Opportunity in a Tarascan Pueblo. American Anthropologist October, 1972 Vol.74(5):1152-1169. James M. Achesons article examines the causes of and reasons behind the differential response to economic change and instability associated with the new economic opportunities in a Tarascan Indian society of Michoacan, Mexico. Acheson strives to demonstrate that some people of the Tarascan communities were blocked from new economic opportunities as a result of both economic and cultural factors. Acheson highlights and criticizes hypotheses of various anthropologists who, like himself, have observed the Tarascan pueblos firsthand. These hypotheses touch on various interpretations of reasons for the economic standstill of the Tarascan people. Acheson concludes that focusing on mechanized carpentry reveals more about the factors that influence the pueblos as a whole. In addition, he highlights the social and cultural features of Tarascan communities that play a large role in its economic development. Acheson draws attention to the following three main assumptions made by prominent authors in the field (in relation to economic responsiveness): There are economic opportunities available in Tarascan communities, these opportunities are only available to those willing to form large scale production and marketing units, and economic change in Tarascan communities requires external financing Acheson agrees that each of these assumptions is valid; however, he explains and outlines (based on his own observations) his own modifications to the assumptions.
AAPA 73rd Annual Meeting Abstracts Search Results. Here I present an analysis of morphological integration within African ape and human Analyses of mtDNA diversity in indigenous Siberian peoples have http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/dbman/db.cgi?db=schedule2003&uid=default&view_records=1
Foundation For Endangered Languages. Home Everywhere indigenous groups are in a minority, after the influx of Russians As to North africa, there was very little diversity, besides Arabic and http://www.ogmios.org/146.htm
Extractions: 6. Allied Societies and Activities (My thanks to David Nash for sending me the collection of abstracts and hand-outs for the event.) This conference was held at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, under the chairmanship of David Bradley. As well as a few talks on aspects of the general phenomenon of language endangerment, there were a larger number of talks on individual languages which may be considered endangered, notably those of Oceania and the Pacific Rim. And a feature of the conference was a final session on technical aspects of language support work: desirable properties of dictionaries and technical tools, and the particular problems that arise when one attempts to re-create a language on the basis of 19th century documents. In the case studies of individual languages, it was possible to discern the current situation of Irish in Ireland and Finnish in Sweden (both under heavy pressure from incursions of English Anders Ahlqvist), German in Pennsylvania (Kate Burridge), Tsimshian on the British Columbia coast (Tonya Stebbins), as well as many south-east Asian languages: theYi languages in southern China (David and Maya Bradley); Tai languages in Assam (Stephen Morey), and the languages of East Timor (John Hajek); was Taba being swamped by Malay in North Maluku (John Bowden)? In this geographic area, a special focus of the conference was bilingual phenomena in transplanted immigrant communities. So Aone van Engelenhoven asked how the politically inspired Alifuru concept, with its emphasis on Malay as a common language, and designed to preserve cultural solidarity of the Moluccans away in the Netherlands, had affected the survival of their various indigenous languages. (Her answer: very variously, sometimes eliminating the memory of languages (Leti), in other cases breeding a reaction and language revival (Ewav, Allang, Amahei), enabling the renaissance of protoypical languages (Alune, Fordata). Margaret Florey (whose paper appears in this issue of Ogmios) looked into the effects of its new immigrant setting in the Netherlands on the Amahai language, now being revived in later generations. Christina Eira compared the different, and increasingly incompatible, varieties of Hmong which are developing among refugees in Melbourne.
BAFF Films The story of three people, each of whom is so much in love with their dreams asserts that computing technology may in fact be indigenous to africa. http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Africana_Studies/AFF/2004/baff_films.htm
Adherents.com There they found an indigenous body of beliefs and practices which of centralAfrica for more than 6000 years. bamileke, Cameroon, , -, -, 1 http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_64.html
Extractions: Notes Bahai Faith Zambia Barrett, David B. World Christian Encyclopedia Data transcribed by Simeon Kohlman Rabbani Bahai Faith Zambia Barrett, David B. World Christian Encyclopedia Data transcribed by Simeon Kohlman Rabbani. Percent: Bahai pop./country pop. from PRB (http://www.prb.org): 9,582,000 Bahai Faith Zimbabwe Barrett, David B. World Christian Encyclopedia Data transcribed by Simeon Kohlman Rabbani Bahai Faith Zimbabwe Barrett, David B. World Christian Encyclopedia Data transcribed by Simeon Kohlman Rabbani. Percent: Bahai pop./country pop. from PRB (http://www.prb.org): 11,343,000 Bahamas National Baptist Missionary and Education Convention Bahamas
CERD/C/298/Add.3 - State Party Report - Cameroon of Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and peoples Rights. The same groups perform bamileke, Beti, Matakam and other dances with equal http://www.hri.ca/fortherecord1998/documentation/tbodies/cerd-c-298-add3.htm
Extractions: UNDER ARTICLE 9 OF THE CONVENTION Fourteenth periodic reports of States parties due in 1998 Addendum Cameroon [12 August 1997] * This report incorporates in a single document the tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth periodic reports of Cameroon due on 24 July 1990, 1992, 1994 and 1996 respectively. For the ninth periodic report of Cameroon and the summary records of the Committee's meetings at which the report was considered, see CERD/C/171/Add.1 and CERD/C/SR.880-881 respectively. Introduction 1. This report incorporates the tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth periodic reports of Cameroon, submitted late, under article 9 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. It principally covers the period from August 1990 to June 1997. 2. The report contains
TITLE: Country Reports On Human Rights Practices, 2000: Cameroon indigenous People A population of perhaps 50000 to 100000 Baka (Pygmies), The CCTU is a member of the Organization of African Trade Unions and the http://www.terrorismcentral.com/Library/Government/US/StateDepartment/DemocracyH
Extractions: U.S. Department of State TEXT: Cameroon Cameroon is a republic dominated by a strong presidency. Since independence a single party, now called the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM), has remained in power and limited political choice. In October 1997, CPDM leader Paul Biya won reelection as President in an election boycotted by the three main opposition parties, marred by a wide range of procedural flaws, and generally considered by observers not to be free and fair. Although the Government legalized opposition parties in 1990 after widespread protests, most subsequent elections, including the May 1997 legislative elections, which were dominated by the CPDM, were flawed by numerous irregularities. International and local observers generally consider the election process, which is controlled by the Government's Ministry of Territorial Administration, as not free and fair. No President has ever left office in consequence of an election. Internal security responsibilities are shared by the national police (DGSN), the National Intelligence Service (DGRE), the gendarmerie, the Ministry of Territorial Administration, military intelligence, the army, and to a lesser extent, the Presidential Guard. On February 20, the Government created a military Operational Command to fight crime in Douala and the Littoral Province. The police and the gendarmerie have dominant roles in enforcing internal security laws. The security forces, including the military forces, remain under the effective control of the President, the civilian Minister of Defense, and the civilian head of police. The security forces continued to commit numerous serious human rights abuses.
Review Of African Crossroads- JAH 1998 peoples to elucidate processes of political and ethnic consolidation. Only indigenous categories. Gearys piece on late nineteenthcentury Bamam http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/xroads/vernick.html
APFT Pilot Report - English - A - CHANGES a) The mechanisms of change among indigenous populations; b) The concomitants ofchange km2) ; in Cameroon, bamileke immigration from Western (97 inhab. http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Sonja/RF/Ukpr/Report16.htm
Extractions: The economic requirements of developing nation states are pushing the various governments into searching for products for export (wood, ores, plant products, even energy). The following activities put into practice to extract these products from the environment all entail a certain amount of risks, both for the environment and for the indigenous populations : - Forest exploitation extensive logging to provide timber and materials for woodwork, intensive logging to provide wood for paper pulp. - Mining big company mines, or small local mines exploited by craftsmen (gold, diamonds). - Hydroelectric exploitation building dams and flooding valleys. - Industrial agriculture, development of cash crops coffee, cacao, oil palm, coconut, hevea, sugar cane, etc. - Extensive livestock breeding forests are cleared to make pastures. - Colonization by farmers organized or spontaneous search for new land by farmers from other areas.
Kultur-Kontakt Kulturen Der Welt A jazz vocalist from africa who sings mostly in his native bamileke, I wantto move people with these stories that don t need words to be expressed and http://www.kultur-k.de/weltmusik/1013/infos.php
Extractions: A jazz vocalist from Africa who sings mostly in his native Bamileke, but whose phrasing reminds one of Bobby McFerrin or Al Jarreau, Cameroonian Gino Sitson is the only vocalist who is incorporating indigenous African polyphonic techniques into the jazz vocalese tradition and, not only that, his musical as opposed to lyrical compositions consistently blends both traditions. Through his vocal wizardry, he stunningly imitates the sounds of the saxophone, trumpet, and bass. Sitson's daring musical project combines jazz, gospel, blues and traditional African rhythms and melodies in a most innovative way. He is a pioneer of a new generation of multi-culturally influenced African musicians who are integrating their own "in-between" living experiences (north/south, tradition/modernity, 20th/21st century) into their musical styles. He subtly blends tradition-rooted rhythms and melodies with original modern acoustic sounds, encompassing a particular stress on the voice. Freely exploring the use of his voice and body, combining his vocal acrobatics with amazing body percussions and miscellaneous effects, Mr. Sitson has forged his own musical style, a unique vocal technique. Experiencing the body as an endless musical resource: that's what Gino Sitson wants to share.
Africa Film & TV NewsFlash EDITION 172, 12 September 2002 films produced in africa and the Caribbean, meet great people from here and It is about the tradition in many tribes (bamileke for one) of putting http://www.africafilmtv.com/pages/newsflash/2003/english/nf188.htm
Extractions: Contents NF188.1 German television in Africa NF188.2 Cape Film studio getting closer NF188.3 South African feature strong at local B/O NF188.4 New SuperCricket quiz adds to MultiChoice Africas Interactive services on DStv NF188.5 EuroNews and Russias public broadcaster : a successful cooperation NF188.6 New Skies to re-deploy NSS-8 satellite to satisfy growing demand in Indian Ocean region NF188.7 World's first Junkmation movie now complete NF188.8 Mr. Bones and Paljas for Fespaco NF188.9 Best Director Nomination for God is African at Pan African Film Festival NF188.10 Film Funding opportunities NF188.11 Festival Image et Vie: call for entries NF188.12 Warm atmosphere of African Film Festival an attractive setting for French immersion NF188.13 One World, 5th Annual International Human Rights Film Festival NF188.14 IBC2003 - At the leading edge of D-Cinema worldwide
Arts And Culture - Cameroon has rightly been described as the microcosm of africa. The history,traditions and worldview of the Sawa people are portrayed through masks, http://www.spm.gov.cm/showdoc.php?rubr=6000&srubr=6106&lang=en&tpl=2
The Blacksmith's Art From Africa Many traditional people living in africa consider red iron oxide, Indigenousterminology used during the event related the process to bodily functions http://www.africans-art.com/index.php3?action=page&id_art=363
Untitled The Mende of Sierra Leone A West African people in transition. The animalof friendship (Habbanaae) An indigenous model of sahelian pastoral http://csac.anthropology.ac.uk/CSACMonog/Waldie/bibilog.html
Extractions: Baxter, P.T.W. 1984. "Butter for barley and barley for cash: petty transactions and small transformations in an Arssi market", in Sven Rubenson (ed.) Proceedings of the seventh international conference of Ethiopian societies; University of Lund, 26-29 April 1982. Addis Abeba: Institute of Ethiopian studies.
Cameroon History & Cameroon Culture | IExplore In the first century, the Sao people settled around Lake Chad and it is from Cameroon joined the UN Security Council in 2002, as one of three African http://www.africa.com/dmap/Cameroon/History
Extractions: In general terms, opposition to Biya is concentrated in the north, among the Muslim communities, and among anglophone regions, which fear discrimination at the hands of the predominately francophone regime. At the most recent presidential poll in October 2004, Biya secured another seven-year term in office winning 70 per cent of the votes. International observers claim that the poll was fair and transparent but opposition parties made allegations of widespread fraud.
Ambazonia.indymedia.org | Thursday, 25-Sep-2003 06:04:02 MDT African Studies Centre, Univ. of Leiden Francis B. Nyamnjoh The SAWA demonstratedagainst the bamileke in particular, who alone accounted for 70 per http://ambazonia.indymedia.org/en/2002/11/93.shtml
Extractions: The 1996 constitution and the politics of belonging in the 1990s might have institutionalised and intensified the sense of divisions among Anglophones, but this by no means implies that the Machiavellian designs of the Francophone-dominated state for asphyxiating Anglophone identity started then. Indeed, the manipulation of ethnic and regional rivalries to divide and rule the Anglophones, among others, is a long-standing strategy in national politics (Bayart 1979). As we have argued elsewhere (Konings and Nyamnjoh 1997), contrary to Anglophone ex-pec-tations upon re-unification, federalism, far from providing for equal partnership between Anglophones and Francophon
RAND AFRICAN ART - HOME PAGE African bamileke beaded elephant mask of the Kuosi society, bamileke cowrie Ibeji twin figure and information on the Yoruba people and a link to a great http://www.randafricanart.com/index1.html
Extractions: Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. The call to prayer rises in the silence of this Cameroon night. The beating of the tam-tam, swelling, wakes the monks from their sleep. Here, the percussions and the rhythms of Africa have taken the place of the antique chimes of the sons of St. Bernard. One by one, the Trappist brothers, enveloped in their cowls or their white capes, direct themselves toward the chapel. The night is fresh; it is 3:30 a.m.
Dedications That the indigenous people of Fernando Poo Island belong to the large Bantu Not that the Bantus were in any way inferior to the other African races, http://www.thebubis.com/bubis_of_fernando_poo.htm
Extractions: Bubi child from the southern Bioko village of Ureka. (March 1999/Truelsen). Translator's note: This begins the actual book translation, from the title page and various prefaces/forwards. The flavor of the language has been retained. Translation by Colleen Truelsen/2003 The Bubis on Fernando Po A collection of articles published in the colonial journal Spanish Guinea By Father Antonio Aymemí Missionary Son of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the apostolic vicarage of Fernando Po Publication sponsored by Juan Fontán y Lobé, governor general of the Spanish territories in the Gulf of Guinea, and financed by the Office of Morocco and Colonies Note After their last meeting, when Reverend Father Antonio Aymemí delivered to the most excellent governor the original of this present work, God, our father, called to his servant to reward his forty-seven extremely fruitful apostolic years. The grateful homeland also honored its illustrious son by naming him director general of Morocco and colonies, a reward most fitting for his persistent and highly productive labor on behalf of the church and mother country. Father Aymemí went to heaven on Sept. 29, 1941; from there, he keeps watch, always with much care, over the souls of his beloved Bubis.
