Extractions: Through the Eye of the Needle: seeing women's art was an exhibition held at Cardinal Carter Library which celebrated women's art honouring Peoples from around the globeEast, South, West and North. The art work included embroidery, beadwork, needle point, clothing, jewellery, and fibre art representing many people from around the world. The exhibition centred on women's art from Korea, China, India and the Middle East; Indigenous Peoples from North and Central America; African PeoplesZulu, Kuba and Yoruba; and South Western Ontario. The Canadian Embroiderers' Guild members offered a demonstration on Saturday, 8 February 2003 from 2 to 4 pm. The Opening evening presentation on February 7 explored the relationship between women's traditional work and their art with a backdrop of music and poetry from many nations. A traditional welcome was provided by the Ogitchitaw Kwe Og Singers and Drummers. This was followed by the reading of an original poem written for the occasion by International student, Mary Song Han Zhang. The poem was translated into English by Mary and read with Emily Shan Qu. These International students from China provided an important contribution to the programme. Music was offered by Secondary school exchange student So Youn Lee who played a traditional Korean instrument called the Kaygum which is a twelvestringed zither. This was followed by a poetry reading of the poem
African Studies: West Africa CEFIKS is committed to the utilization of indigenous knowledge systems and other in all topics of study involving the Mande peoples of West africa, http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/West.html
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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.
A R T T H R O B _ L I S T I N G S _ C A P E South africa is this year playing host to an international comics festival thatwill help culture, language of the indigenous peoples of the region. http://www.artthrob.co.za/04oct/listings_cape.html
Extractions: Comics Brew takes over Cape Town galleries South Africa is this year playing host to an international comics festival that will help up-and-coming artists understand how to become competitive in the international market, according to its co-ordinator Anton Kannemeyer. 'Comics Brew' has been boosting this growing visual arts genre with events throughout the year. This month, the festival comes into full swing with a variety of shows dotted around Cape Town's galleries. The Bell-Roberts Gallery is taking part from October 13 to November 6 (contact details below).
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African Art On The Internet africa Talks.org an online and faceto-face community of people interested indevelopment in african Conservancy Sells sculpture, masks, kuba cloth. 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
African States Instead, the story they see involves african people living in a great variety Luba and kuba. Central africa witnessed the emergence of important states http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/history/giblinstate.html
Extractions: Introduction Historians and archaeologists have learned a great deal about the developments which preceded the emergence of states in Africa. They can now say with confidence that in most cases, Africans developed states in response to local conditions and opportunities. Rarely does the diffusion of ideas from distant sources seem to have been important in bringing about the formation of a state. Today historians do not think that the history of African states is a story of the spread of influences from Egypt, Europe or Asia into the rest of Africa. Instead, the story they see involves African people living in a great variety of locations who use their political skills and wisdom to create for themselves centralized systems of government. Besides learning about the local origins of African states, historians have found that states were most likely to arise in regions endowed with fertile soils, abundant rains, lakes or rivers rich in fish, and mineral deposits, and in societies which enjoyed plentiful opportunities to trade. In fact, the four societies discussed below possessed famous traditions of art precisely because they had productive economies and vibrant commercial systems which allowed artists and craft workers freedom from scarcity, and provided access to metals, woods, clays and other media. Finally, historians have also learned that African states created sophisticated institutions of government, although, as has been true in all human societies, greed and love of power have often caused political instability and social crisis. The following sections, therefore, concentrate on the local conditions which led to the creation of states and the creation and destruction of political institutions.
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MSN Encarta - African Art And Architecture In the past, among the Yoruba of western africa and the kuba of central africa The Dogon people of southern Mali cultivate grain on a plateau at the top http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761574805_5/African_Art_and_Architecture.htm
Extractions: Search for books and more related to African Art and Architecture Encarta Search Search Encarta about African Art and Architecture Editors' Picks Great books about your topic, African Art and Architecture ... Click here Advertisement document.write(' Page 5 of 10 Encyclopedia Article Multimedia 51 items Article Outline Introduction The Cultural Role of African Art Materials, Forms, and Styles Architecture in Africa ... Influence of African Art on Western Art A The materials a particular African culture uses to make art depend to a large degree on the materials available to it. Wood, plant fibers, and clay are abundant in much of the continent. Few sculptures are created from wood in parts of southern Africa, where wood is relatively scarce. Where riverbeds provide good clay deposits, as in the Niger River valley of Nigeria , pottery and ceramic sculptures are plentiful. Soapstone is readily available in Zimbabwe and northern South Africa, where the Shona people reside. The Shona carved soapstone birds as early as the 14th century, and they continue to carve a variety of animal and human figures in soapstone today.
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Extractions: Print Print Preview African Art and Architecture Article View On the File menu, click Print to print the information. African Art and Architecture V. Regional Differences Africa is the second largest continent (after Asia) and comprises more than 50 independent countries. The continent is home to more than 1,000 ethnic groups with as many different languages ( see African Languages). Differences in geography, politics, religion, and economics have shaped its numerous artistic traditions. Western and central Africa seem to have had stronger artistic traditions than the rest of the continent to the east and south. Good conditions for cultivating crops, a settled rather than nomadic population, and the existence of large kingdoms and city-states may have strengthened the impetus to create in this region. However, African societies that were not primarily agricultural also produced rich artistic and architectural traditions. Ways of life change, and scholars can sometimes trace changes in a society through its works of art. For example, the Chokwe people of Angola, in central Africa, created very dignified wooden statues of Chibinda Ilunga, a legendary hero who introduced a new hunting technique to them in the 1600s. The Chokwe are now farmers, but the honor accorded this figure in their art indicates that hunting must once have been central to their survival. Vigorous artistic traditions developed in many towns and city-states of western Africa, where trade was the driving economic force. Yet the presence of trade in parts of eastern and southern Africa did not produce artistic traditions of comparable importance.
Western-Soudan Their migrations are indicative of the mobility of African peoples in many parts and cultures and accepting of the indigenous rulers and their customs. http://users.telenet.be/african-shop/western-soudan.htm
Extractions: var site="sm5african" This is the name conventionally given to the savanna region of West Africa. It is an area dominated by Islamic states situated at the southern ends of the trans-Saharan trade routes. Back to african tribe list The sculpture here is characterized by schematic styles of representation. Some commentators have interpreted these styles as an accommodation to the Islamic domination of the area, but this is probably not an adequate explanation since Islam in West Africa has either merely tolerated or actually destroyed such traditions while exerting other influences.
The Origin And Survival Of The Taino Language A report on how the native peoples of Arima, Trinidad, lost their lands. In kuba, there is a strong GuahiroTaíno presence in the eastern most provinces http://www.centrelink.org/davidcampos.html
African Cultures - MavicaNET Culture / Ethnic Regional Cultures / Minorities and indigenous peoples / indigenous Islam and indigenous African Culture. eng . homowo English http://www.mavicanet.com/directory/eng/9990.html
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Extractions: Belarusian Bulgarian Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Italian Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian (cyr.) Serbian (lat.) Slovak Spanish Swedish Turkish Ukrainian Cultúir Cultúir Dùthchasach agus Réigiúnach Réigiúin Aifric ... By regions African Cultures Sister categories ... Algeria Angola Asian Cultures Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Civilizations of the Past Comoros Congo Congo, Democratic Republic of Cultures of Australia and Ocea... Cultures of the Americas Cultúir Traidiseanta Diasporic Cultures Djibouti Eachdraidh Réigiúnach Ealain tro Roinn/Cultúir Economy: Africa Education: Africa Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia European Cultures Gabon Gambia Geography: Africa Ghana Groups of Related Peoples Guinea (Conakry) Guinea Bissau History of Africa Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mass Media: Africa Mauritania Mauritius Minorities and Indigenous Peop...
Introduction To Africa This absolutely counts for africa where its own people are too poor to notice,and where they Yet the indigenous population, though converted to Islam, http://us-africa.tripod.com/intro.html
Extractions: "It is my belief that unless we Africans can tell our own story within context and show an Africa that has not been seen before the West will continue to throw their hands up in despair believing that our continent is full of a bunch of confused savages that is now beyond salvation/redemption. The only way the West can understand and treat us seriously is to hear the African story first hand from the African perspective rather than the usual whitie version - so why not take the risk if that can help turn things around for our Continent". Quoting: www.sorioussamurasafrica.org The African Union African countries, in their quest for unity, economic and social development under the banner of the OAU, have taken various initiatives and made substantial progress in many areas which paved the way for the establishment of the AFRICAN UNION From the editor enormous mountains tropical rainforests grassy savannas three large deserts , the world biggest swamp, and the world's longest river. In general the culture is rich, unique and diverse, with great craftsmanship, magical tribal dancing and fabulous musicians . Between the majestic Egyptian necropolises, the TWA/MBUTI(pygmid) civilizations, the Zulu kingdoms, our imagination can't help running amuck... Africa is where it all started. Africa is also about luxurious vegetation, wild animals, adrenaline safaris, infinite rivers and vertiginous falls. Africa evokes the tam-tam of the drums, the lollapalooza of exotic dancers. In Westerner's mind, it begets the occult, the paranormal. It holds the keys of life mysteries. And Africa has an enormous reservoir of natural and human resources. Did you know that besides
Retail africa in Gear We supply authentic african curios, arts, crafts and bush clothinghand made by the indigenous people of Southern africa. http://www.africacentre.org/retail.htm
Extractions: The name UMBOKO is derived from Swahili and means "maker of things" or "craftsperson". All of our products are handmade and represent arts and crafts from many cultures including several African countries, India, Nepal, Thailand, Tibet, several of the Indonesian islands such as Bali, Lombok and Java, and some South and Central American countries. S and A Beads
BBC News | TALKING POINT | Should Europe Be Dealing With Zimbabwe? Fair enough Dr. kuba Assegai, but, next time one of the African countries Dr Assegai, how would you feel if indigenous people in the UK (or in the US http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point/newsid_1203000/1203008.stm
Extractions: There are renewed calls for greater international pressure to be brought to bear on Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, currently visiting Europe. The government has been cracking down in recent weeks on the judiciary, political opponents and the media as it prepares for president elections due by next year. At the weekend another white person was murdered on a farm - the eighth in the past year. Criticism of Mr Mugabe's policies was highlighted on Monday by an angry confrontation with British gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell in Brussels. Many opponents of the Zimbabwe Government want sanctions against President Mugabe - who is having official meetings with the European Commission and President Chirac of France - including a travel ban and a freezing of his international bank accounts. Should the international community be continuing its dialogue with President Mugabe at a time of such crisis in Zimbabwe? What role can the outside world play in bringing the violence to an end? This debate is now closed. Read a selection of your comments below.
Alphabetic Index The Ainu The indigenous people of the Japanese islands, now confined to Hokkaido . ALGERIA A state in north africa, between Morocco and Tunisia. http://www.hostkingdom.net/alphapla.html
Extractions: A lphabetic I ndex of P laces A to C A B C D-K ... Heraldry A Aachen A city in western Germany, quite near the Belgian and Dutch frontiers. Aalen A city in southwestern Germany. Aargau A Canton in Switzerland. Aatundaland A minor Dark Ages Kingdom in what is now Sweden. Abasgia A district, intermittently independent, in northwestern Georgia (Caucasus) Abdera A city in Thrace, northeastern Greece. Abilene A city of ancient Syria. Abu Dhabi An Emirate within the Persian Gulf. Abuja A city in central Nigeria, now the capital. Acanthos A city in northern Greece, in the Chalkidi district. Achaea A province in the northern Peloponessus, in Greece. Achshaph A Caananite city in Galilee. Acre An Amazonian province of Brazil. Acre (modern Akko) An ancient city in northern Israel. 'Ad An ancient tribal Kingdom in what is now southwestern Oman, in the Arabian peninsula. Adab An ancient city in eastern Mesopotamia. Aden A city and district at the southern end of the Arabian peninsula. Adiabene An ancient Kingdom in what is now Kurdistan, northern Iraq. Adrar An emirate in central Mauretania.
African Lesson Plans 1998 The people of western and central africa whose art is represented in the This tradition probably relates more to the ancient indigenous art still http://www.umfa.utah.edu/index.php?id=MTIz
