New Jersey AAH Curriculum Guide - Unit 1 how African contemporary lifestyles are influenced by indigenous, Islamic, Short, informative anthropological study of African peoples and their http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Digital_Collections/AAHCG/unit1.html
Extractions: African Beginnings The word Africa was used by the ancient Romans to refer to their colonial province in the area that is present-day Tunisia and eastern Algeria. Its possible derivations are the Latin word aprica , meaning "sunny", and the Greek word aphrike , meaning "without cold." Archeological finds suggest that Africa is the cradle of humankind. The earliest fossil remains of humans, however one defines human , have been found in eastern and southern Africa. For example, if being human is defined as bipedality ("walking upright"), then the remains found in Ethiopia in 1974 of a four-million-year-old apelike creature apply. If defined as "making tools" (tools from stones that were sharpened or flattened), then the fossilized remains unearthed in 1986 in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge are particularly significant. About two million years old, they were those of Homo habilus , the first toolmaker. (Even more recent studies have led to the conclusion that humans first learned to fashion sophisticated tools in Africa, not in Europe, as many experts had thought. These tools, carved from the ribs of large mammals, include double-pointed blades with carved barbs and single points with ridges that could have been used for attachment to spear shafts. They were discovered in Zaire along its border with Uganda and are said to be between 75,000 to 90,000 years old.) If "using fire" defines being human, then the one-million-year-old remains found at Kenya's Lake Turkana of
The Centre For Advanced Studies Of African Society In South africa, many people of Khoisan historical descent who have been As a result, indigenous languages are not accorded enough resources to develop http://www.casas.co.za/papers_native.htm
Extractions: WELCOME SCOPE OF OUR OPERATIONS Khoisan Language Studentship Scholarship Scheme CASAS/IDRC Acacia Project PUBLICATIONS Tinabantu Book Series Monograph Series Occasional Papers ... CONTACT US Last updated: 25.02.2004 GOING NATIVE: Language of Instruction for Education, Development and African Emancipation Kwesi Kwaa Prah. Cape Town. Keynote Address presented to the Launch Workshop of Language of Instruction in Tanzania and South Africa (LOITASA), Morogoro, Tanzania: 22nd to 24th April 2002 Introduction Table 1 (Education Enrolment for Primary and Secondary Schools Growth Percentages in Selected African Countries; 1960-1983) (1) Country Growth in Primary Enrolments (%) Growth in Secondary enrolments (%) Tanzania 781% 370% Kenya 553% 1988% Zambia 415% 230% Lesotho 204% 96% Zimbabwe 440% 148% Swaziland 382% 145% Botswana 550% 250% Malawi 297% 80% Nyerere provides illustrative figures for Tanzania during its early years of independence. Writing in 1967 in his document Education for Self-Reliance he informs us that:
AFRICA MATTERS - Congo Times News It has been estimated that about 1 million people inhabited africa when the emigrants Thus, at the June 1990 Francoafrican summit meeting of La baule http://www.congotimes.com/news/ubbhtml/Forum9/HTML/000251.html
African Art: Aesthetics And Meaning The baule believe that before people are born into this world they have a The decorative features of West African heddle pulleys devices that hold http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/exhib/93.ray.aa/Exhibition.html
Extractions: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Klaus, 1981.43.1 To the Bamana people, farming is the most important and noblest profession. At planting time, men of the Chi-Wara association of farmers dance with headresses like these in the fields to honor Chi- Wara, the mythical "farming animal" that taught agriculture to the ancestors of the Bamana. The headdresses, always danced in male and female pairs, depict the antelope-like Chi-Wara and display the ingredients of successful cultivation. The long horns of the male Chi Wara stand for the tall growth of millet; the penis signifies the rooting of this grain. The long ears refer to the cultivators' listening to the songs sung by women who encourage the men while they work in the fields; the open, zigzag pattern in the neck symbolizes the sun's path along the horizon between the two solstices. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Lanpher, 1979.40.l Bamana, Mali Republic
Antiques, Regional Art, African On Trocadero Antiques, Regional Art, African offered for sale on Trocadero internet antique My understanding of this type of Tribal baule figure is that it was http://www.trocadero.com/directory/Antiques:Regional_Art:African.html
Extractions: Truly an excellent example of the metal trade 'currency' used in sub-Saharan Africa before the widespread acceptance of European denominations. Created from iron, this design takes its inspiration from a hoe or spade used by farmers. Solely created to make major purchases (i.e.livestock, a bride, freedom for someone etc.),it could be melted down or reformed for other usage. Cameroon/Nigeria, ca. 19th century. In fine condition. 17.50"H.
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
UNIDO - West African Textiles Focus For Global Markets an African woman The skilful West African fabric makers and decorators are theinheritors bullet checking ruralurban migration; developing indigenous http://www.unido.org/en/doc/3706
Richard Faletti Family Collection On Tribalarts.com Richard Faletti Family Collection of fantastic African art, with AfricanFaces, African Figures The Arman Collection; baule African Art/Western Eyes; http://www.tribalarts.com/people/previous/faletti/
Extractions: The art of Africa enjoyed a period of great popularity on the international art market in the 1980s. Of the important collections that were compiled during that decade, many have become well known, and the collectors who formed them have often become important supporters of public museum collections, contributing time, objects and financial support to institutions that might otherwise have less active resources. Among these is Richard Faletti, whose energy for collecting and institutional involvement seems almost boundless. Despite his new-found enthusiasm, his first attempt at collecting was less than successful. He discovered that a genial merchant near his hotel in Jos had apparent access to tribal artifacts, including two "old" bronze masks and two small stone figures, which he purchased. In Lagos, later in the trip, he purchased two small wooden figures, which he later learned were ibeji. In his words, "One was crudely carved (at this stage I reasoned that badly carved work was really very primitive, and therefore collectible). The other, however, was in my judgment a little masterpiece. This carver knew about volumes and negative space. I still have this ibeji."
WRITING ASSIGNMENTS Using the novel and TWO sources of your choice, DESCRIBE indigenous Culture ofthis ethnic African Art; Francis Bebey, African Music A People s Art; http://faculty.uncfsu.edu/doyler/TCHNG/H490Write.htm
Extractions: I. INDIGENOUS LITERATURE: The Oral Tradition: Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali Using this oral tradition recorded by D.T. Niane and TWO sources of your choice, DESCRIBE the culture of the Mande Speakers at the time of the founding of the Empire of Mali. Use the culture in which Sundiata was born, at Niani in the Kingdom of Kangaba looking for the following: Language, government, religion, education, maintaining any type of records of the past, environmental effects on culture, art, music, literature, and Moral Values that might include reverence for elders, truth, beauty, loyalty, bravery, sympathy, kindness, hospitality, and whatever else you see within the document. Use the two sources of your choice to try to VERIFY the cultural statements that you make based upon the oral tradition. Also include any observations you have on the accuracy of the oral tradition or comparisons to culture today in the area.
Extractions: 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?
RAND AFRICAN ART - HOME PAGE an African oliphant or African trumpet, a nice baule monkey figure also known Ibeji twin figure and information on the Yoruba people and a link to a http://www.randafricanart.com/index1.html
Ch03 In the West African compound farm, the tree component includes oil palm, This palm is indigenous to the entire humid tropical zone of Central and Latin http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/80364e/80364E03.htm
Extractions: IDRC Consultant, Sussex, England Abstract Tree crop farming systems in the humid tropics are in an active state of development In Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and Latin America attention is being devoted to improvement of traditional tree food crops. In larger-scale rubber and oil palm cultivation monoculture is still the norm, but in the smallfarmer sector there is increased interest in intercropping with food crops In coconut, the introduction of high-yielding hybrids, complemented by the development of multicropping systems, is leading to a major upward revision of this crop's potential. Studies of taungya farming have confirmed the value of food cropping in young forest tree crops So far research has concentrated on the commodity crops and many lessons have been learned which could be applied in the future development of agro-forestry. Introduction Spurred by increasing social, population, and economic pressures, tree crop farming systems in the humid tropics are in a state of very active development. In the commodity sector, rubber, oil palm, coconut, and cocoa plantings are being extended; there is greater use of high-yielding material, more productive methods of management, and shorter replanting cycles, together with increased interest in intercropping. In the traditional multicrop farming sector, there are attempts to establish more productive crop mixes, and the improvement and cultivation of food tree crops are being encouraged. So far, the bulk of detailed research on tree crops has been concentrated on commodities, and many lessons have been learned of possible application in the production of forest and food crops.
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Extractions: "Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas" International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) advances the art and science of planning, designing, building, operating and maintaining dams to develop the world's water resources in a technically safe, financially sound and ecologically and socioeconomically sustainable manner. World Bank Board Approves Nam Theun 2 The WWF did find an alternative to electricity from large dams: cycling!
Spring 2002 Conference Preliminary Program StanfordBerkeley Joint Center for African Studies Annual Conference 2Indigenous Practices in Colonial Contexts ~ LEVINTHAL HALL. Ivy Mills, African http://ias.berkeley.edu/africa/events/SpringConf2003_Stanford.htm
Extractions: ~ BOARD ROOM Christopher Lee, History, Stanford, Chair Nancy Kendall, Education, Stanford, Aid to Education and its Relation to the Global EFA Movement Amy Ehrlick, Education, Stanford, International Volunteer Aid to HIV/AIDS Education in Namibia Joel Samoff, Center for African Studies, and Bidemi Carrol, Education, Stanford, Aid to Higher Education in Africa Georganne Morin, Education, Stanford
Savineau Report Home For over seven months she interviewed, noted and observed people living in theterritories of French West africa, amassing a wealth of detailed information, http://www.hull.ac.uk/savineau/intro.html
Extractions: C.H. Griffiths, University of Hull INTRODUCTION The French African Empires The western part of French Africa formed a great crescent-shaped swathe of land sweeping from the Saharan dunes of Mauritania in the north-west, eastwards to Chad and down to the heavily-forested regions around the equator. From the early 1600s to the 20th century almost five million square miles of this region were colonised by France . This European nation laid claim to a region fourteen times its own size and then divided it into two colonial empires; the northern zone became known as the federation of French West Africa ( lAfrique occidentale française ) while in the more southerly equatorial countries became part of French Equatorial Africa ( lAfrique équatoriale française ) (1) The Savineau Study of French West Africa in the 1930s In October 1937 a woman officer from the Education Department of French West Africa set out from Dakar on a journey. Her mission was to report on how African women and families living in the territories governed by France at that time were experiencing French colonial rule. Producing this report took her into the homes and families of hundreds of women and men living in West Africa at that time on the eve of a Second World War in Europe . She wrote copiously and immediately of what she witnessed during her travels, and the result of her observations are the reports transcribed, translated and presented here on this website, which, as the reader will discover, go far beyond the expected confines of an administrative report penned by a colonial civil servant.
THESIS - Chapter I Introduction This may be explained by the impact on indigenous African cultures of the two Some of the most pervasive influences on the Igbo people and their society http://www.ub.uib.no/elpub/1996/h/506001/korieh/chima-Chapter.html
Extractions: The study of women as a vital and autonomous social force, as well as the treatment of their weal and woes as an intrinsic part of overall social dynamics, is a child of very recent birth indeed (Afigbo 1989:7). M. I. Finley (1968:129) drew in the, 'The Silent Women of Rome ', attention to the fact that The Roman World was not the only one in history in which women remained in the background in politics and business'. The women of mid-Victorian England were equally without rights, equally victims of double standards of sexual morality. Equally, they were exposed to risk and ruin when they stepped outside the home and the church. C. Obbo (1980:1) referred to the invisibility of African women in any serious study of history and society; in spite of the fact that anthropology has not been an exclusive male preserve. If the state of African women's studies is as bad as these and other authorities suggest, it is not surprising that even now when the world appears to be waking to its responsibility in this regard, there are still segments of the field which continue to be in a state of some neglect. While topics such as marriage and family, the economic role and political rights of women have received a fair measure of attention, a subject like widowhood practices remains largely neglected. Many of such books have no entry whatever under the term 'widowhood' in their indexes. For the most part what passing references made to the institution are made under such subjects as 'burial' or 'funeral rites' and 'death'.
Encyclopedia: Mythology Myths justify the current occupation of a territory by a people, for instance . Bambuti mythology is referring to the mythology of the African Bambuti http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Mythology
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Denis Dutton On Christopher Steiner's African Art In Transit Christopher Steiners African Art in Transit (Cambridge University Press, Is ordinary tourist curiosity about how people lead their lives, http://www.denisdutton.com/christopher_steiner_review.htm
Extractions: Christopher Steiner tells of an episode he witnessed in an Ivory Coast market place. A young European tourist was examining a Dan mask he was keen to barter for his Seiko watch. Is the mask really old? Has it been worn? the tourist wanted to know. Meanwhile, the African trader who was considering the deal was passing the watch among his fellows, trying to make sure that it was authentic. Elsewhere in the same bazaar, tourists eager to buy authentic trade bead necklaces presented another delicious irony. Glass trade beads were introduced into West Africa in the fifteenth century and have since functioned there as a medium of exchange and adornment, peaking in popularity perhaps a century ago. With a few exceptions, however, trade beads would today generally be considered as up-to-date by many African women as gingham dresses would be to Nebraska matrons. As Steiner explains, although the consumption of European beads has diminished among Africans, trade beads continue to circulate along specialized routes of transnational commerce.... The same beads which for centuries were prized by Africans are now sought by those inhabiting the very shores from which the beads originated (p. 127). Christopher Steiners African Art in Transit (Cambridge University Press, $54.95) is about the misunderstandings and illusions that infect the encounter between African art and western commerce. Other writers, notably
