LAS Alumni News About LAS completed an extensive inventory of indigenous mapmaking in sub The neighboring Tabwapeople charted the path of The kingdom of bamum in western Cameroon in the http://www.las.uiuc.edu/alumni/news/00fall_mapmaking.html
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Banned And Locked Down! Mali The African country, for Mali of India, use Mali (Indian people) Mali empire Tribal peoples see Adivasi (India), Ethnic groups, indigenous peoples http://p208.ezboard.com/fthefed86933frm1.showMessage?topicID=737.topic
Ninemsn Encarta - African Languages Encarta Search. Search Encarta about African Languages Print Preview of Section.African Languages, languages indigenous to the African continent. http://au.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761565449/African_Languages.html
Extractions: Related Items Encarta Search Search Encarta about African Languages Advertisement Encyclopedia Article Multimedia 3 items Article Outline Introduction Language Groupings The Afro-Asiatic Family The Nilo-Saharan Family ... Other Language Families I Print Preview of Section African Languages , languages indigenous to the African continent. More than 2,000 different languages are spoken in Africa . Apart from Arabic , which is not confined to Africa, the most widely spoken African tongues are Swahili (35 million speakers) and Hausa (39 million), both of which are used over wide areas as lingua francas . Several languages (often inaccurately termed dialects simply because they have few users or are under-researched) are spoken by only a few thousand people. Although very few African languages have written literatures, the majority have long-standing traditions of oral literature. II Print Preview of Section According to the most recent and widely accepted scholarly practice, the languages of Africa are grouped into four language families:
Michael Stevenson Some of these photographs of south and east African people have a C. Geary,Images from bamum German colonial photography at the court of King Njoya, http://www.michaelstevenson.com/photography/essay.htm
Extractions: In order to situate colonial photographs meaningfully in the contexts in which they were conceived, the many strands of influence on their making need to be carefully considered. As James Ryan in his recent book on colonial photography concludes, these images are 'dynamic objects with entangled histories whose surfaces reflect different meanings within different historical and cultural settings.' In this introduction the impact of the theories of ethnography and anthropology on such photographs will briefly be discussed, as well as the influence of the technical limitations of the photographic process. The demand by potential customers for stereotypical images, and the complex interplay between these factors and pictorial and art conventions of the period will also be examined.
Michael Stevenson Fine Art In addition, historical southern African art produced by black people was C.Geary, Images from bamum German colonial photography at the court of King http://www.michaelstevenson.com/books/html/lens.htm
Extractions: This selection of fifty compelling photographs of people from south and east Africa offers an opportunity to re-evaluate the colonial photography of these regions. During this era, indigenous subjects usually struggled to retain their dignity and composure in the exploitative lens of the European traveller, tourist, scientist and commercial photographer. In those instances when the sitter's humanity survived the racial prejudices and technology of the time, the images often transcend their role as historical records and can be seen as provocative and poignant works of art. The photographs chosen for inclusion are from the authors' own collection and most of them have never been published before. Each is reproduced on a double-page spread accompanied by captions that often provide new information about the photographers and the subjects. An introductory essay, which contextualises the practice of photography in south and east Africa during this period, is illustrated with full-page details from the selected photographs.
The Nation, 11/27/1989 - Cela Vie By Ugarte, Michael The most pervasive change in the presentation of indigenous people has occurred Other shows at the Museum of African Art have suggested social roles for http://www.nationarchive.com/Summaries/v249i0018_09.htm
Extractions: Cela Vie From The Nation - America's Longest Running Weekly Magazine. Cela Vie by Ugarte, Michael Open the article in The Nation Digital Archive Abstract: Selections from Full Text: ...A few examples illustrate the new direction... ...The most pervasive change in the presentation of indigenous people has occurred in art museums... ...although Cela has been a politically problematic figure for many years, his novels are well worth reading... ...The funerary origin of most early Native American artifacts with artistic appeal is a common problem among museums striving for social responsibility... ...The show briefly treats the economic and political power of the Iroquois confederacy and looks in some detail at how the lives of Seneca women and men changed in response to acculturative pressures in the years after the Revolution... ...What most distinguishes the Sydney show from "Crossroads" is the extent to which the radical change of the postcontact era is drawn into the story rather than grudgingly appended as a final chapter... ...The disdain was understandable in light of the neglect of exile writers by the Spanish cultural establishment (ElPais, the Ministry of Culture...
Chapter 1 The people are negroid, with possibly a northern strain in some of the Tikar tribes . Little is known about the indigenous inhabitants; but, http://www.era.anthropology.ac.uk/Kaberry/Kaberry_text/ch1pt1.html
Extractions: BEFORE we examine the economy of Bamenda and its bearing on the position of women, a somewhat detailed account of the history, ethnic character and distribution of the peoples is necessary since very little information has been published. The total population of the Province as given in the Annual Report for 948 is 301,000; but this is estimated from figures for adult taxable males, the last census having been taken in 1931. The people are negroid, with possibly a northern strain in some of the Tikar tribes. They vary considerably in physique; but, in general, those of the uplands appear to be taller, wirier, and of better build than those of the forest, where malaria, filaria, yaws, goitre and elephantiasis are prevalent. Apart from the analysis of the Nkom language by the Rev. Father Bruens, very little linguistic research has been done in Bamenda. The Basel Mission has translated the New Testament into Bali, and the Roman Catholic Mission has made some study of the language of Nsaw and produced a catechism in Nkom. The languages of Bamenda have hitherto been classified as Benue-Cross River (or semi-Bantu) and the Tikar placed in the Bafumbum-Bansaw group. But, in a recent set of articles dealing with a reclassification of West African languages, Greenberg has suggested that Bali, Bafut and Ndob (and presumably this would be extended to the dialects spoken by other Tikar peoples in Bamenda) are Bantu. But a definitive classification must wait on further research, as well as the publication of the results of the linguistic field survey of the northern Bantu Borderland now being carried out from the French Cameroons.
Blank Fon of Bum guest of honour to The Sultan of bamum In the case of diseasefor instance the Kwefon made sure that the people kept themselves, http://www.era.anthropology.ac.uk/Era_Resources/Era/Kingdom_Bum/mulamba/chap3.ht
Extractions: BUM SYSTEM OF JUSTiCE The native court which sprung to existence in 1926 was entirely the initiative of the British. Throughout the German administration, no court ot any sort was set up to administer justice. This means that, though the Germans would naturally have deplored such crimes as murder and violent fighting, the Bum resorted to and depended on "their own long established indigenous methods of general administration" (Bridges 1933: 41) for most of the time. This was to be remarked wherever the Germans had influence. As Nkwi and Warnier say (1982: 214), everywhere "Native crime and conflict resolution procedures were left undisturbed to handle minor cases except poison-ordeals, enslavement and other forms of brutal punishment." 3.1 CRIME, CONFLICT AND LAW In Bum, crime and conflict resolution was possible at all levels on the hierarchical ladder of authority. All depended on the nature or character or the issue that needed resolution. Thus, most naturally, solutions to disputes and cases of trouble amongst members of a tamily (nuclear or extended) were first attempted by the Familyhead. His authority to settle such matters emanated primarily from his position at the head of the family and in certain cases from his age advantage over the other family members. It is only in the case where his decision failed to satisfy the disputing parties that the matter was allowed to proceed to the village council.
Bamun Art Worlds The participants in this project represent key African scholars working on this and a bamum native and a specialist in ceramics and African prehistory; http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~du_bois/RESEARCH___OUTREACH/Bamun_Art_Worlds/bamun_a
Extractions: Bamun Art Worlds: Integration and Innovation in Grassland Cameroon from 1700 to the Present Director, Professor Suzanne Preston Blier This project looks at the arts of the Bamum and its neighbors in the grasslands of Cameroon (West Africa) from the vantage of invention, apropriation, and retranslation of local and foreign artistic and cultural elements from 1700 to the present. The construction and recons is examined historically as well as cross-culturally. The critical interface between colonialism, royal prerogative, individual life-histories, social mores and an explosion of artistic creativity will be examined against both notions of constructing a specific artistic "Weltanshaung" and an ongoing interest in reshaping cultural identity through visual form. The rich and diverse textual archives and artistic forms housed in the Museum of Foumban (the former palace of Bamum King Njoya, himself a key figure in this project) offer a unique opportunity to examine anew the extraordinary art history of this area. The participants in this project represent key African scholars working on this and related art materials from fields as diverse as anthropology, archaeology, cultural history, and art and architectural history. This group includes Christraud Geary of the National Musuem of African Art, Washington, D. C.; British anthropologist Michael Rowlands; archaeologist Germain Loumpet, a Bamum native and a specialist in ceramics and African pre-history; Alexandra Loumpet-Galitzine, archaeologist of French and Russian heritage with a speciality in the Bamum system of writing and related forms; American art historian Steven Nelson, a specialist on architecture of northern Cameroon; and Suzanne Preston Blier, a specialist in African art and architecture who in the past has worked primarily in Togo, Benin and Nigeria.
African Art Course Slide List - Bowles Kakilambe of the Baga people, Guinea. Natl. Mus. African Art, Smithsonian. indigenous West African women. ca. 1970s. Photograph, Dr. Gloria H. Dickinson http://members.aol.com/GRBowles/art-hist/af-slide-list.html
Extractions: (no images shown) I now have 709 African art slides. Of these 542 are African (incl. Egypt-Nubian), 117 Egyptian (non-Nubian), and 47 African American introduction slides. This page lists the African, Egypt-Nubian, African American introduction, and a few of Western art influenced by African art. This page does not list my Egyptian non-Nubian slides, and additional African American and African European slides, which are on different lists. In addition to the above slides, I show additional works or art on the 20 videotapes I have on African art and related culture, and art processes. The timeframes of these tapes range from approximately 15 to 90 minutes. I plan to write a Web page of notes on these tapes. In teaching African art, I use all or part of these slides, videotapes, and other materials, depending on the nature and purpose of the course, and the course's place in the institution's curriculum. This list divides the continent into three geographic divisions, North, East and Southern, West, and Central. Each division is subdivided by traditional, crafts, and neo-African art as recent as 1999. The list concludes with African-influenced art and crafts, and an introduction to African American art if the latter is appropriate. Use your Web browser's search engine to find a specific artist, title of work, type of art, people, culture, society, town, country, or continental division.
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AMU CHMA NEWSLETTER #26 (11/11/02) 77 the author notes the possible connection of the Bagan numerals to the Bamumnumerals. Indilinga African Journal of indigenous Knowledge Systems http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/AMU/amu_chma_26.html
Extractions: AMUCHMA-NEWSLETTER-26 Chairman: Paulus Gerdes (Mozambique) Secretary: Ahmed Djebbar (Algeria) Members: Cyprien Gnanvo (Benin) Nefertiti Megahed (Egypt) Mohamed Aballagh (Morocco) Abdoulaye Kane (Senegal) David Mosimege (South Africa) Mohamed Souissi (Tunisia) David Mtwetwa (Zimbabwe) Associate Members: TABLE OF CONTENTS Objectives of AMUCHMA Meetings, exhibitions, events Current Research Interests Notes and queries ... Addresses of scholars and institutions mentioned in this newsletter Suggestions Do you want to receive the next AMUCHMA-Newsletter AMUCHMA-NEWSLETTER website back to AMUCHMA ONLINE 2. MEETINGS, EXHIBITIONS, EVENTS 2.1. Conferences of Ahmed Djebbar at the Island of Reunion (9-16 February 2002) At the invitation of the Science-Resource Association and of the Institute for Research in Mathematics Education (IREM) of Saint-Denis (Reunion), Ahmed Djebbar (Algeria) gave four lectures on the history of mathematics: "The Arabic phase of algebra" (February 9, Saint Gilles); "The circulation of Arabic sciences around the Mediterranean Sea" (February 12, Saint Pierre, Association of Friends of the University); "The circulation of Arabic mathematics around the Mediterranean Sea (February 13, University of Saint Denis);
Extractions: North Georgia College and State University It was the AHA's hope that its "Cameroon Study Group" would re-conceptualize the rich content of African history along broad themes that might be used to improve the teaching of Africa in the United States. This project succeeded insofar as it helped convince these scholars that a broader approach to all of world history, not merely Africa, was required in school curricula: many of the so-called Cameroon group were among the founding members the World History Association, including Kevin Reilly and Marilyn Hitchens, who served as its president, the late Ray Lorantas, who served as its first Executive Director and others, including Dana Greene and this writer, who served on its initial Executive Council. Thanks to the efforts of the WHA and the pioneering work of African and world historians such as Philip Curtin, Pat Manning, and most recently, Eric Gilbert and Jonathan T. Reynolds (authors of Africa and World History , 2004), Africa now occupies a larger place in the world history curriculum than ever before. However, even the best of world history surveys today tend towards regional grand tours (West African constitutionalism, South and East African resistance movements) or thematic treatment (the era of independence) that are often conducted on the very cusp of teacher preparation (few teachers have in-depth training in one region of Africa, let alone all of them) and are often wanting in lecture exemplification, classroom activity and student learning opportunities beyond one or two issues, such as the slave trade.
