Islam The mambila speaking peoples, numbering approximately 18,0001 live on the mambila The majority of the mambila cling to their indigenous religion, http://lucy.kent.ac.uk/Gallery/rssite/irss/lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Fdtl/Rehf/Fieldnotes/i
Why Words Are Biotic During fieldwork in the mambila region of Cameroons Adawawa region in Over the ages, indigenous peoples have developed innumerable technologies. http://www.swaraj.org/shikshantar/bioticwords.htm
Extractions: From Down to Earth , December 31, 2002 When metaphors die, ideas pass away and a way of thinking is buried, says Sakar Khan. He is not a linguist. He is a musician. He plays the khamaicha a four-string instrument. Somewhere in his eighties, he is arguably the most revered of the musicians in his tribe the langas of Rajasthan. Reticently he shares his feelings, I see todays generation ignore the khamaicha. I cant help it. Music, like language, can provide only a metaphor for a way of life. When people lose a way of life, their language struggles to survive. In a similar vein, linguists remember Tefvik Esenc, the last speaker of Ubykh, a language once spoken in the northwestern Caucasus. Some years ago they scampered to his village of Haci Osman in Turkey to meet him. He had three sons, all of them unable to understand his tongue, preferring Turkish instead. He had already decided upon his epitaph. This is the grave of Tefvik Esenc. He was the last person able to speak the language they called Ubykh. He died in 1992. The language passed away with him. Then there is what linguist Bruce Connel recorded in a newsletter of the UK Foundation for Endangered Languages, under the heading obituaries. During fieldwork in the Mambila region of Cameroons Adawawa region in 1994-95,1 came across a number of moribund languages. . . one of these, Kasabe.. .had only one remaining speaker, Bogon. In November 1996 I returned to the Mambila region. Bogon had died on November 5, 1995 taking Kasabe with him. He is survived by a sister, who reportedly could understand Kasabe, but not speak it, and several children and grandchi1dren none of whom know the language.
SOSIG: Ethnographic Studies Of Peoples And Communities Browse this resource Virtual Institute of mambila Studies Browse thisresource Open Directory Project (DMOZ) indigenous People http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World-cat/ethnostud.html
Extractions: For a short description click the title. To access the resource directly click Editor's Choice (key resources in this subject) Lonely Islands, The Andamanese: an On-line Documentation, by George Weber Maintaining Diversity: an Ethnographic Study of Oak Park, Illinois - Progress Reports Virtual Institute of Mambila Studies Bibliographic Databases Up Scott Polar Research Institute Library (SPRILIB) - Russian North Bibliographies Up Anthropological Studies on the Middle East: a Basic Bibliography Anthropological Survey of India Publications Anthropology of German Studies: A Working Bibliography ... Bibliography of Acta Borealia: a Nordic Journal of Circumpolar Societies, 1984-1996
SOSIG: Ethnographic Studies Of Peoples And Communities Browse this resource Virtual Institute of mambila Studies. All Resources Browse this resource Lanic indigenous peoples http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World/ethnostud.html
Extractions: For a short description click the title. To access the resource directly click Editor's Choice (key resources in this subject) Lonely Islands, The Andamanese: an On-line Documentation, by George Weber Maintaining Diversity: an Ethnographic Study of Oak Park, Illinois - Progress Reports Virtual Institute of Mambila Studies All Resources "Daily Life in Sierra Leone: The Sherbro in 1936-37": African photographs from the University of Pennsylvania Museum Archives 45 Years in the Turkish Village 1949-1994:Paul Stirling's Ethnographic Data Archives African Anthropology/The African Anthropologist African Online Digital Library ...
Internet African History Sourcebook WEB Islam and indigenous African Culture At Harvard with an interest inthe mambila people of the Nigeria Cameroon borderland and their neighbours; http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html
Extractions: Sourcebook Africa is both the most clearly defined of continents - in its geography - and the hardest to pin down in historical terms. Human beings originated in Africa and, as a result, there is more diversity of human types and societies than anywhere else. It is not possible, in any non-ideological way, to claim any one of these peoples or societies as more essentially "African" than others; nor is it possible to exclude a given society as "not really African". On this site historical sources on the history of human societies in the continent of Africa are presented, when available, without making prejudgements about what is "African". This page is a subset of texts derived from the three major online Sourcebooks listed below. For more contextual information, for instance about the Islamic world, check out these web sites. Notes: In addition to direct links to documents, links are made to a number of other web resources.
Anthro.Net: Africa Yoruba Gurus indigenous Production of Knowledge in africa by Toyin Falola 1998 mambila people of the Nigeria Cameroon borderland and their neighbors; http://home1.gte.net/ericjw1/africa.html
Extractions: This guide contains bibliographic references and links to internet resources for African Archaeology and Ethnography. Recommended Reading: African-American Pioneers in Anthropology An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400 by Christopher Ehret 1998 African Identities: Race, Nation and Culture in Ethnography, Pan-Africanism and Black Literatures by Kadiatu Kanneh 1998 Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes by Stephen Howe 1998 Dancing skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa by Katherine Dettwyler, 1994 Freedom in Fulani Social Life: An Introspective Ethnography by Paul Riesman, et al 1998 Kinship and Marriage Among the Anlo Ewe by G. K. Nukunya 1999 Manhood and Morality: Sex, Violence, and Ritual in Gisu Society by Suzette Heald 1999 Maroon Arts: Cultural Vitality in the African Diaspora Yoruba Gurus: Indigenous Production of Knowledge in Africa by Toyin Falola 1998 Links: African Archaeology: The ultimate reference set for the continent's prehistory. African Art and Anthropology A comprehensive resource collection of new and used books on the subject of the African experience and art from an anthropological perspective.
Dz_bib In Cultural diversity and indigenous peoples Oral, written expressions and newtechnologies mambila Bibliography The Nigerian Field 1989 54 6576 http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/dzbib.html
Web Page Roger Blench (Africa, Languages, Biodiversity, Ethnoscience) Sponsored by indigenous peoples Organisation to give invited presentation toRound Table (1999c) Why are there so many pastoral peoples in East africa ? http://homepage.ntlworld.com/roger_blench/Personal Website.htm
Extractions: ROGER BLENCH Personal Web Site CONTACT DETAILS Roger Blench Mallam Dendo Guest Road Cambridge United Kingdom Voice/ Answerphone /Fax. 0044-(0)1223-560687 E-mail R.Blench@odi.org.uk This page last updated: Wednesday, 30 July 2003 1. Professional Activities Relating to Development Professional Activities 2. Academic Career Academic Career 3. Publications Publications Published papers Papers Books Books Papers in Press Papers in Press Documents posted electronically Posted Electronically Unpublished documents Unpublished Documents Reports Reports Websites Websites 4. New Benue-Congo Comparative Wordlist Contents Page 5. Unpublished Field Materials Unpublished Field Materials 6. Hot off the press Hot off the press 7. Recent and projected travel, contact details etc. Movement Schedule 8. Images Images
MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Africa For example, the Ahaggar, Tibesti, Ennedi, and mambila mountains, together with Scientific research has demonstrated that indigenous African farming and http://encarta.msn.com/text_761572628___2/Africa.html
Extractions: Print Print Preview Africa Article View On the File menu, click Print to print the information. Africa II. Natural Environment The great diversity of the African environment makes it difficult to generalize about the continent. While much of the continent consists of vast plains with little relief, there are also towering volcanic peaks and the largest rift valley system in the world. The climate ranges from the year-round heat and humidity of equatorial regions to the dryness of the worldâs largest desert to mountaintop conditions cold enough to support glaciers. It contains regions of biological significance due to their biodiversity and huge numbers of species found nowhere else. The African environment has long been mistakenly seen as hostile, foreboding, and tragically in decline. Popular descriptions of Africa such as âthe dark continent,â images of untamed wilderness in nature publications, and sensationalized press coverage of disasters such as droughts and famines have shaped these perceptions of Africa. Geographersâ accounts of Africa used to attribute the underdevelopment of the continent to its unfavorable environmentâits oppressive climate, infertile soil, polluted water, and exotic diseases. These days have begun to wane. Increased scientific research on the African environment has done much to dispel old misconceptions and to provide insights into the physical processes that give shape to the landscape. The relationship of African societies to the environment is also much better understood. Yet much remains to be done before this huge and complex continent is well known and appreciated, especially by the general public.
Islam The mambila speaking peoples, numbering approximately 180001 live on the mambilaplateau The majority of the mambila cling to their indigenous religion, http://www.era.anthropology.ac.uk/Era_Resources/Era/Rehfisch/Papers/islam.html
Extractions: In this essay I shall discuss some of the reasons why so few of the Mambila speaking people have adopted the Muslim creed. Islam has spread very rapidly throughout many parts of West Africa as well as in other regions of the African continent in the past few decades, but has made but little progress among the Mambila. There are three types of factors that explain this. The first and most important stems from the relations existing between the pagans and their Muslim Neighbours, the Fulani. The second and third are on the one hand those stemming from the social and political structure of Mambila society itself and on the other ecological and economic factors. The Mambila speaking peoples, numbering approximately 18,000 Islam has made almost no converts in the villages investigated. The majority of the Mambila cling to their indigenous religion, a few having opted for Christianity. There are no reliable statistics for the region as a whole on this matter so I must confine myself to the two villages on which I found adequate information. In the one with a population of 605 persons there was one Mambila Muslim and in a neighbouring settlement with approximately 350 residents there were none. Christianity has attracted approximately thirty-five followers in the first and ten in the second village. The history of Fulani-Mambila relations is little known. In the literature are to be found mentions of frequent skirmishes between the two groups, for the most parts resulting from slave raids on the part of the Banyo Fulani into Mambila territory. As late as 1892, the Emir of Banyo was killed by the Mambila while on a slave raid.
Anthropology Links A version of a mambila transcript with digitized recordings indigenous peoples Documents from Melanesia, Polynesia the Pacific http://chemlab.pc.maricopa.edu/anthro.html
Cultural Anthropology - Social Anthropology - Academic Info peoples and Cultures of africa (Anthropology 267) dedicated to furtheringthe rights of all indigenous and local communities embodying traditional http://www.academicinfo.net/anthcultural.html
Extractions: "For the purposes of this electronic circle, we have selected three themes that we feel are crucial to the future of the people, land, and waters of the Arctic and Subarctic region: natural resources, history and culture; social equity and environmental justice. In the following presentations you will find a broad range of textual materials, art, photographic exhibits, and in the future, sound and short video recordings." AusAnthrop: Anthropology and Aboriginal Australia "This site is dedicated to research and resources in anthropology, for academics as well as the layman. Special accent is on Aboriginal Australia, and more specifically on the Western Desert cultural bloc. However, other resources are, and future resources will be, of interest to a wider public, whether anthropologists or not."
AFRICAN LUCY mambila masks, museums, CmedicinesD and the meaning of Sùàgà Paper presented at The culture of the peoples of Mediterranean africa, the Sahara, http://www.greatdreams.com/african-lucy.htm
Extractions: AFRICAN LUCY compiled by Dee Finney 2-20-04 - DREAM - IT'S STARTING - I was in Wisconsin, near Eau Claire. I went to visit my mother-in-law Lucy B. at her farmhouse. We were having a nice chat and then she told me that five of her sons had spun themselves to death to commit suicide the week before. There were no funerals for them because it was a sin to commit suicide. I thought that was atrocious. I went out for a walk and when I came back, the house was full of people who were all standing around crying. I was really puzzled, so I started asking people why everyone was crying. Nobody would tell me and that was making me angry. Finally I saw a priest standing in the midst of the crowd and he had tears in his eyes too. I said "Why is everyone standing around like somebody died? He didn't answer either, but more or less looked towards the other room. So I looked into the other room and there was my mother-in-law laying on her back with her eyes closed on top of the dining room table. People were sitting and standing around her seemingly dead body.
MOTHERLAND NIGERIA: PEOPLES (by Boomie O.) People and Culture, in Nigeria. mambila, mambila Info Art Life in africa mambila Ethnologue Nigeria. Mandara (Wandala), Mandara Prayer profile http://www.motherlandnigeria.com/people.html
Pastoralism In The New Millennium Contemporary nomadic and pastoral peoples africa and Latin America. The indigenous livestock of eastern and southern africa. Technical Communication No http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/005/Y2647E/y2647e18.htm
Extractions: Abbink, J. 1993. Ethnic conflict in the "tribal zone": the Dizi and Suri in southern Ethiopia. Journal of Modern African Studies Abu-Rabia, A. The Negev Bedouin and livestock rearing. Oxford, UK, Berg. Adams, M. When is ecosystem change land degradation? Comments on "land degradation and grazing in the Kalahari" (paper 38c) by Dougill and Cox. Network Paper No. 39e. London, Overseas Development Institute. 1979. The indigenous sheep of Nigeria. World Review of Animal Production, Agrawal, A. The grass is greener on the other side: a study of the Raikas, migrant pastoralists of Rajasthan . London, IIED. 35 pp. Agrawal, A. Greener pastures: politics, markets, and community among a migrant pastoral people . Durham, North Carolina, USA and London, Duke University Press. Ahmed, A.S. Pukthun economy and society: traditional structures and economic development in a tribal society . London, Routledge and Kegan Paul. Ahrens, J.D. Cessation of livestock exports severely affects the pastoralist economy of Somali region . Unpublished report to UNDP Emergencies Unit. Akabwai, D.
Integrating Crops And Livestock In West Africa Some peoples whose ancestors were cultivators often move to other professions antiquity of indigenous agricultural production systems in West africa, http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/004/X6543E/X6543E03.htm
Extractions: INTEGRATED CROP AND LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION The existing agricultural or farming systems in different ecological zones of West Africa are designed to produce subsistence food, cash sales and materials for local or industrial use. There is no generally accepted classification of farming systems in tropical Africa, but for convenience a classification which is based on intensity of cultivation and/or animal rearing is presented in Table 11. The various production systems are grouped under (i) traditional and transitional systems, and (ii) modern systems and their local adaptations. Traditional and Transitional Agricultural Systems In classical shifting cultivation, the homestead of the farmer is relocated near the cultivated fields after each cultivation phase. In practice the situation varies from where the farmer may never return to the same piece of land to situations where cultivation is repeated on the same plots. This cultivation system is ecologically viable in frontier situations where population density is low and fallow periods are long enough to restore soil fertility. Shifting cultivation in the classical sense has all but disappeared in West Africa and Morgan (1980) reported it to be restricted to parts of Ivory Coast and small areas between Nigeria and Cameroon (Figure 10). Nomadic herding is the extensive animal rearing counterpart of shifting cultivation in the savannah and more arid areas is discussed separately.
Africa Direct-Ethnographic Art, Trade Beads, Masks, Carvings Neck has indigenous repair of a crack, and head has sustained old mambila medicinemale figure on custom baseOLD European collection $350.00. Senufo People. http://www.africadirect.com/ccproducts2.php?category=11&pagenum=15&start=420&aff
Anthropology Internet Page indigenous peoples Linguistic Anthropology, Physical Anthropology Collates andconnects research focused on the mambila people of the NigeriaCameroon http://wwwsju.stjohns.edu/library/staugustine/anthropo.html
Colonial History Of Africa African indigenous Knowledge Systems Dr. Gloria Emeagwali, Professor of in the mambila people of the NigeriaCameroon borderland and their neighbours. http://www.empereur.com/Africa/history/hiscolonial.html
Extractions: Examples - Based at the Research Center of the International Pragmatics Association, University of Antwerp, and works with the Centre Æquatoria , Mbandaka, Congo (DRC). "Its goal is to make extensively annotated editions as well as systematic interpretive analyses of documents from the archives of the Centre Æquatoria in particular those documents that are relevant to the historiographic study of linguistics and ethnology in colonial times ." The Archives have, on microfiche, the proceedings of the Conférence Nationale Souveraine. The
Thomson Nelson - Cultural Anthropology: 1st Canadian Edition on ancestor worship in africa, commentary, and case material on the mambila . NativeWeb contains information and links relating to indigenous people http://www.haviland.nelson.com/links.html
Extractions: Chapter 16: Anthropology and the Future To find web sites relating to anthropology , your first stop should be the World Wide Web Virtual Library (WWW VL) for Anthropology. This site includes archaeology as well, but another comprehensive guide is the WWW VL for Archaeology (also known as ArchNet). Both sites are huge with links to hundreds of pages arranged by subject or geographically.
