CSR - Visiting Fellows that an emerging consensus between indigenous peoples and ecofeminists challenges His kongo Divination in African Folklore An Encyclopedia eds. http://www.princeton.edu/~csrelig/people/visfellow-04-05.html
Extractions: Martha L. Finch A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America (Cornell 2001), edited by Janet Moore Lindman and Michele Lise Tarter, and is currently co-editing a volume of food studies scholarship, Eating in Eden: Food in American Utopias Janet Parker Religious Studies Review Theology for Earth Community: A Field Guide . Orbis Books, 1996). Jill Witmer Sinha Cookman United Methodist Church and Transitional Journey: A Case Study in Charitable Choice Youth Religiosity and Behavior (Youth and Society, in press) and Youth and religion: The Gameboy generation goes to "church" (Social Indicators Research, 2004), co-authored with R. Cnaan and R. Gelles; and "Transitional Journey Ministry: A Church-based Welfare to Work Partnership Model," (In D. K. Ryden & J. Polet (Eds.)
COMMEMORATING THE AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND IN NEW YORK CITY many Africans (as well as other indigenous peoples) possess an In Africansocieties including Dogon, kongo, and Yoruba, realms of the living, dead, http://www.ijele.com/vol1.1/frohne.html
Extractions: SPIRITUALITY OF SPACE IN CONTEMPORARY ART WORKS Andrea Frohne The New York City African Burial Ground was actively used by enslaved and freed Africans and people of African descent from approximately 1712 until 1790. The cemetery covered five to six acres, in which between 10,000 and 20,000 people were buried, with bodies three layers deep in places. The 1991 unearthing of the Burial Ground has altered historical misconceptions, such as the mistaken belief that virtually no slave trade existed in the north. Few realized that during most of the eighteenth-century, New York City held the largest number of enslaved blacks outside of South Carolina. In 1790 for instance, slaves were owned by about 40% of the white households around New York City, with blacks comprising nearly one-quarter of the urban population. In the late seventeenth and entire eighteenth-century, the African Burial Ground was located on the periphery of the town so that funerals were performed beyond the scrutiny and surveillance of Europeans. It was Trinity Church who perhaps prompted use of the site, although it may have been in use prior to the Church's ordering in October 1697, "...that after the expiration of four weeks from the date here of no Negroes be buried within the bounds and limits of the church yard of Trinity Church."
Extractions: Africa - The Birthplace of Modern Humans You either love it or hate it . . . Africa Map Click here to see large map Features of Africa Africa is the second-largest continent , after Asia, covering 30,330,000 sq km; about 22% of the total land area of the Earth. It measures about 8,000 km from north to south and about 7,360 km from east to west. The highest point on the continent is Mt. Kilimanjaro - Uhuru Point - (5,963 m/19,340 ft) in Tanzania. The lowest is Lake 'Asal (153 m/502 ft below sea level) in Djibouti. The Forests cover about one-fifth of the total land area of the continent. And the Deserts and their extended margins have the remaining two-fifths of African land. World's longest river : The River Nile drains north-eastern Africa, and, at 6,650 km (4,132 mi), is the longest river in the world. It is formed from the Blue Nile, which originates at Lake Tana in Ethiopia, and the White Nile, which originates at Lake Victoria. World's second largest lake : Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa and the is the world's second-largest freshwater lake - covering an area of 69,490 sq km (26,830 sq mi) and lies 1,130 m (3,720 ft) above sea level. Its greatest known depth is 82 m (270 ft).
African Culture - Society On The Internet The web site for her course peoples and Cultures of africa has information onthe Mande, Indilinga african Journal of indigenous Knowledge Systems http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/culture.html
MSN Encarta - Africa By 1400 a number of these states had merged to form the kingdom of kongo with its qualities and strengthening indigenous African religious thought. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761572628_28/Africa.html
Extractions: Search for books and more related to Africa Encarta Search Search Encarta about Africa Editors' Picks Great books about your topic, Africa ... Click here Advertisement document.write(' Page 28 of 36 Encyclopedia Article Multimedia 161 items Dynamic Map Map of Africa Article Outline Introduction Natural Environment People of Africa Economy ... History F As woodland was cleared for cultivation, wider areas of East Africa became suitable for cattle keeping. In the centuries before and after 1000, Nilotic-speaking cattle herders pushed southward into the newly exposed grasslands of the Great Lakes region. Some retained their Nilotic language and culture, such as the Luo northeast of Lake Victoria. West of Lake Victoria, Nilotic herders integrated into Bantu society and adopted local Bantu languages. In this period local state structures began to emerge. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the states of Bunyoro , Ankole, Karagwe, and Buganda were established in what is now Uganda and northern Tanzania. By the 16th century Bunyoro had grown to dominate the region.
MSN Encarta - History Of Colonial America of the influx of many African peoplesSenegalese, Gambians, Ibo, Yoruba, kongo, The Portuguese tried to force indigenous peoples to work on these http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_1741502191/History_of_Colonial_America.html
Extractions: Search for books and more related to Colonial America, History of Encarta Search Search Encarta about Colonial America, History of Editors' Picks Great books about your topic, Colonial America, History of ... Click here Advertisement document.write(' Encyclopedia Article Multimedia 23 items Article Outline Introduction European Colonial Ventures Development of England's Colonies English Revolution ... Political and Social Upheavals I Print Preview of Section Colonial America, History of , colonial possessions or dependencies in the western hemisphere formed by European nations. European countries developed colonies for many reasons, but primarily to generate income. They used colonies to provide raw materials for trade and to serve as markets for finished products. English colonies eventually became dominant in North America because many settlers were drawn to their political systems. These systems encouraged representative government, religious toleration, economic growth, and cultural diversity. After Christopher Columbus explored the Americas in 1492, the nations of Western EuropeâSpain, Portugal, France, The Netherlands, and Englandâcreated vast colonial empires in the western hemisphere. The Spanish empire in
African Arts: Robert Visser And His Photographs From The Loango Coast In current studies on ethnographic photographs, the indigenous peoples often merely Visser s name is linked primarily with kongo fetishes (minkisi, http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0438/is_4_35/ai_104520724
Extractions: Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. Other critics have proposed that these recent publications represent a new confirmation of European arrogance whereby pictures of other peoples are doubly misused: Ethnographic pictures were, as one says in popular method-jargon, deconstructed in order to show the part that the European world played in their genesis.... In current studies on ethnographic photographs, the indigenous peoples often merely play the role of extras or requisites. (Nippa 1996:18) Indeed, these studies often include illustrations that manifest the power of taking photographs (see Theye 1989:14): anthropological images, erotic genre scenes, documentations of alleged barbary. While such pictures are used to denounce the voyeurism of earlier observers, at the same time they feed the present-day voyeurism of the politically correct: Were these imperialists not contemptuous of human dignity? One need only view the pictures for proof!
Www.4Kids.org | Coolspots Prior to 1788, indigenous people were the only humans living in Australia. themes such as kongo Crossroads, Market Crossroads and Global africa. http://www.4kids.org/servlet/coolspots.SearchCoolspotsByCategory?categoryId=8&ca
Kansas African Studies Center At KU The scenes convey supposed affinities between african animals and people as in need a mythical africa, Loango tusk carvings do reveal indigenous, kongo, http://www.ku.edu/~kasc/programs/conferences/2005/bridges.shtml
Extractions: Elaborately carved ivory tusks, such as that donated by Susan and Wolfgang Hamburger to the Spencer Art Museum [Hamburger tusk], are vivid documents of the cosmopolitan social and economic character of the Loango Coast, Congo during the peak of the Atlantic Trade [Map showing Loango Coast]. Crafted during the mid 19th century to the first decade or so of the 20th century, these relief carvings typically depict a multitude of scenes spiraling up a single tusk. Subjects range from pastoral and "Westernized" Africans, to European merchants and monarchs, to caravans of porters and enslaved Africans, to illustrations of the Roman pantheon [details showing such examples from several tusks]. Kongo-Vili artists carved each unique tusk to serve, mostly, as souvenirs for Westerners who were engaged in commerce along the Loango Coast. This presentation concerns my investigation in analyzing the ways in which the imagery on Loango tusks appealed to their European consumers while simultaneously being indigenous expressions of their Kongo carvers.
JJSProgramme 10001030, Crispin Maalu-Bungi (Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of kongo) The beginning of literacy among the indigenous people of South africa http://www.jahn-bibliothek.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/JJSProgramm.html
K-12 TR-Religion Latin America with the express purpose of converting indigenous peoples. Traditional Religions in africa; 2. Overviews of Traditional Religion; 3. http://www.clacs.uiuc.edu/k-12TR-Religion.htm
Extractions: Spring 2002, No. 86 Re-Printed Article by Ronnie Kahn Religion and Politics in Latin America Latin American Catholicism The Post Vatican II Church The Growing Effect of Evangelism Evangelists similarly exhibit ties to economic and political structures. Many evangelist preachers have approached a community with a single message which promotes Protestant values of individualism over corporatism, sobriety over the public drunkenness often associated with Catholic rituals. Evangelists often seek to instill the notion of the Protestant work ethic, a work ethic which focuses on individual rather than communal labor and land. What is viewed as the excesses of the Catholic Church are often ridiculed. More seriously, the introduction of evangelism can literally split communities and families into two. Rural communities tend to split along religious rather than kin lines once evangelism has been introduced into a region. In the Maya community of San Juan Chamula in Chiapas, Mexico, the town council decided to expel evangelical members of the community and deny them access to communally held land unless the reconverted to Catholicism. Local Cults Social scientists and others who study religion have long noted that while 80% of Latin Americans proclaim themselves to be Catholic, the rate of participation in the formal religious structures is much lower than that. The number of Catholics who attend weekly Mass, for example, is probably no more than 25%. However, Catholicism shapes daily lives in profound ways and Catholic doctrine and traditions serve as templates to private rituals and other aspects of daily life.
Untitled Document indigenous traditions spirits Intermediaries between God and people Large pantheon Initial contact the kongo of western africa (Congos, Gabon, Angola) http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rklein/religion lecture.htm
Africa. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 SubSaharan africa is occupied by a diverse variety of peoples including, and in places powerful kingdoms, such as kongo, Luba, and Mwememutapa. http://www.bartleby.com/65/af/Africa.html
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Congo - A Look At The Past The indigenous peoples in Congo were forest dwellers. the first millenniumAD, Bantuspeaking peoples established themselves throughout Central africa. http://cp.settlement.org/english/congo/alook.html
Extractions: A L OOK AT THE P AST T he indigenous peoples in Congo were forest dwellers. Their descendants, primarily members of the Efe and Mbuti tribes, still live as hunters and gatherers in the northern Ituri forest. Late in the first millennium A.D., Bantu-speaking peoples established themselves throughout Central Africa. Their culture was based on ironworking and agriculture, and they largely displaced the indigenous peoples. B y the 15th century, several kingdoms had developed in the area, including Kongo, Kuba, Luba and Lunda. When the Portuguese explorer Diogo Cam reached the mouth of the Congo River in 1482, he discovered that the coastal kingdoms were capturing people from nearby areas and sending them to work as slaves in Saudi Arabia. Over the next few centuries, Portuguese and French traders enslaved millions of Africans, and sent them to work on plantations in North and South America. The slave trade was abolished in 1885. I n 1878, King Leopold II of Belgium hired Anglo-American explorer Henry Morton Stanley to establish outposts along the Congo River. Leopold persuaded other European rulers to recognize Congo as his personal territory, which he named the Congo Free State. D uring Leopold's reign, the Congolese were brutally treated. They were forced to build a railroad and collect ivory and rubber. As many as 10 million Congolese died between 1880 and 1910. When news of the atrocities became public in 1908, the Belgian government took control of the colony and renamed it the Belgian Congo. Although the Belgian government improved working conditions slightly, it too was a harsh ruler and continued to extract natural resources. For years, the Congolese struggled to achieve independence.
Untitled Document my courses Political Sociology and indigenous peoples Movements in GlobalContext. Introduction to africa Studies; peoples and Cultures of africa; http://www.macalester.edu/anthropology/tca/directory.html
Films & Video Recordings On AFRICA They also record their encounters with various African peoples, including the With his help Mani kongo is reunited with his daughter and his regalia and http://www.info.library.yorku.ca/depts/smil/filmographies/africa.htm
Extractions: Fax:416-736-5838 Fall/Winter Hours: Summer Hours: Please note the following abbreviations: MP : 16mm film VC : VHS videotape VC 3/4 : 3/4" videotape AFRICA SERIES 52 min. each 1984 RM Arts Prod. 1. DIFFERENT BUT EQUAL VC #1206 and #4494 Traces the early history of the continent noting that some of the world's greatest prehistoric civilizations had their origins in Africa. 2. MASTERING A CONTINENT VC #1207 and #4494 Examines how African farmers created a viable way of life in an often hostile environment. 3. CARAVANS OF GOLD
Recent Books By Jouvert Board Members: Volume 2 cultural, and ecological war against indigenous peoples. VY Mudimbe searlier books (eg The Invention of africa and The Idea of africa) have http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v2i1/jbooks2.htm
Extractions: Allen, Paula Gunn. Life is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems 1962-1995 . Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. More than eighty poems are collected in Life is a Fatal Disease ; the volume both records Paula Gunn Allen's poetic trajectories during the past four decades and consolidates her reputation as a major voice in American Indian Literature. Although much of the work addresses aspects of Indian cultures, the book also includes excursions into other areas of experience in the Americas, including the autobiographical. Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies . New York: Routledge, 1998. As a subject, post-colonial studies stands at the intersection of debates about race, colonialism, gender, politics and language. This volume provides an essential guide to understanding these intersections and the issues that characterize post-colonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered, and why it is crucial in forging new cultural identities. There are suggestions for further reading at the end of each entry, a comprehensive glossary, and a bibliography of essential writings. Brown, Stewart, ed.
Index01 indigenous peoples and Reform of the State in Latin America. Amsterdam 2000. kongo Proverbs and the Origins of Bantu Wisdom. Libreville 1999. 251 pp. http://www.anthropos-journal.de/index01/body_index01.htm
Lectures - Schedule Of Events African indigenous peoples generally distinguish themselves based on theirpresentday position The kongo South Roots of Black Dance, Gesture and Music http://www.lectures.iastate.edu/schedule.php?showpast=2000&print=
Assignment Page VIII: HIST 360/560, The Spanish Empire Why did some African areas, like Benin and kongo, at times cease to means werefound to control the labor of indigenous peoples in Castilian America? http://www.isu.edu/~owenjack/spemp/readver5.08.html
Extractions: Coerced African labor and its great forced migration in the Atlantic world. The increasing integration of the Americas into the developing global economic system. Special attention will be given to the establishment of networks of major administrative, commercial, and production centers from Manila to Northwest Europe and Southwest Africa and to the development of the "plantation complex" as the focus of agricultural production, machine technology, labor migration, capital investment, and long-distance commerce. Reading: Thornton, chs. 3 and 4; Burkholder and Johnson, ch. 4; Thornton, ch. 5.
