H-Net Review: George L. Simpson Also, Imperato s allegations of the murder of a rendille chief and hunters at the hands of African peoples are designated as follows Suk for Pokot, http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=24300917455550
EPOS - Publications Pastoralists and Agropastoralists Loosing Ground A Horn of africa The basisfor indigenous range classification is highlighted and the factors which http://www.tema.liu.se/epos/public.htm
Extractions: Order form (Interchange Format, RTF) Back to EPOS Homepage Managing the Globalized Environment. Local strategies to secure livelihoods (Ed. TiiaRiitta Granfelt) published by Intermediate Technology Publications, UK. The volume contains a selection of revised papers from the IUAES (International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences) inter-congress in 1996 organised by EPOS with the theme Livelihoods from Resource Flows Awareness and contextual analysis of environmental conflict. Land users have a particular relationship to nature: those who make a living from it can also be assumed to ascribe nature a special value. This goes without saying for production and hard economics; for instance, the natural resources exploited represent a productive capital for the farmer. Is that relationship also reflected in how nature is perceived among those who make their living from land husbandry? This question, placed in a community context is the basic issue for the current study. The study is built on cases relating to three questions put to the contributors: What turns a natural phenomenon into a resource?
Extractions: National Parks and Poverty Risks: Is Population Resettlement the Solution? Prof. Michael M. Cernea (CGIAR/George Washington University, USA) Dr. Kai Schmidt-Soltau (Yaoundé/Cameroon) Table of Contents_ I. Introduction II. Double Sustainability and the State of our Knowledge III. The Impoverishment Risks Model and Conservation-Caused Displacements a) Facing the risk of landlessness b) Facing the risk of joblessness (loss of income and subsistence) c) Facing the risk of homelessness d) Facing the risk of marginalisation e) Facing the risk of food insecurity f) Facing the risk of increased morbidity and mortality g) Facing the risk of loss of access to common property h) Facing the risk of social disarticulation IV. Findings from Park Studies in East Africa V. Facing New Risks of Biodiversity Loss: How the Displacements Backfire VI. Are Remedies to Forced Displacement Feasible? VII: Bibliography Abstract Is the dilemma between biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction insoluble? This dilemma frequently arises in park creation programs, when the intended park areas are inhabited by poor indigenous populations. Advocated solutions have often been cast in either-or terms, with a long entrenched bias against resident or mobile people in parks. Very often, the intervention pattern is the wholesale treatment of land as state property, denial of customary ownership and indigenous traditional rights to land and assets, and the forced displacement of people. It is imperative to re-examine and confront this dilemma through integrated social and biological research apt to lead to socially improved conservation policies and interventions. Solutions are needed for achieving double sustainability for both: peoples livelihood and biodiversity. The recent WSSD recommendation that 10% of the planets land area should be protected as national parks increases the urgency of joint social and biological research.
Public Anthropology ONeil, Reading, and Leader spoke with Canadian indigenous people about their Sedentarization and Market Integration New Opportunities for rendille and http://www.publicanthropology.org/Archive/HO1998.htm
Extractions: Human Organization, 1998 Vol. 57 (1): 43-52 CLARITY: 4 LAURA BERNSTEIN University of Wisconsin-Madison (Larry Nesper). Agrawal, A. Profits of the Move: The Economics of Collective Migration among the Raika Shepherds in India . Human Organization, 1998. Vol 57(4): 469-478. The Raikas migrate in groups called dangs, the constituent unit of which is an ewar. Each dang has between eight and eighteen ewars. Agrawal studied thirteen different dangs and collected data on the expenditures and revenues that were accrued by each group over the course of the migration. From this data, he points out that those dangs with larger flock sizes are able to produce a larger profit. By banding together, herdsmen create economies that would not exist were they not to form a collective. Agrawal suggests the Raikas benefit from the collective mobility of banding together because it addresses the social, political, and environmental variability to which they are subjected. Collective mobility allows shepherds to become a vocal community, permitting them to strengthen their voice with numbers and thereby defend their own interests more effectively. Collective mobility also causes added exchange in market places because of the increased flock sizes. According to Agrawal, this increased interaction in the market is critical for the continuation of a traditional pastoralist lifestyle.
Restorative Justice - Africa -- All Articles The questions sought information on how people heard about the community service Elechi, OO Human Rights and the African indigenous Justice System http://www.restorativejustice.org/resources/world/africa3/africa
Extractions: @import url(http://www.restorativejustice.org/ploneColumns.css); @import url(http://www.restorativejustice.org/plone.css); @import url(http://www.restorativejustice.org/ploneCustom.css); Skip to content. Search Search RJ Online Home Introduction Resources Restorative Justice around the World ... Login resources Home Restorative Justice Resources Restorative Justice around the World ... Africa Africa All Articles Up one level These documents discuss restorative justice in Africa. They appear in the order in which they were added to the site with the most recent appearing first. Gambia Ghana Namibia Rwanda ... A bill fostering the inclusion of restorative justice principles and practices for juveniles is still awaiting parliamentary action in South Africa. Originally introduced in 2002, the Child Justice Bill would create a consistent system for responding to youth crime by consolidating current practices and legislation with international standards for the treatment of juvenile offenders.
Camel Safaris Throughout this safari you will meet many indigenous people including the Samburu,rendille and Turkana. Most of the travelling is done in the early morning http://www.african-horizons.com/safaris/camel.htm
Extractions: Camel Safaris Deep Sea Fishing Flying Safaris Gorilla Safaris ... Combinations Camel Safaris This safari is highly recommended for those who want an unusual and authentic safari experience. This is primarily a walking safari but riding camels are available, unless the terrain is difficult. You do not necessarily need to be extremely fit but flexibility and resilience is required. On our camel safaris, you travel sedately in remote territory often using sandy highways. Most of the travelling is done in the early morning when it is still cool and you are most likely to see wildlife. The camels accompanying you carry your personal daypacks and refreshments. Meanwhile the camp is packed and loaded onto the camels to soon catch up with you as you continue walking with the whole camel train, normally finding a place to camp after mid-day.
Extractions: Buy from Lets drink a toast (you can choose your own beverage for this) to Mark Burnett :The Bwana Mkubwa of topographically, politically and culturally relevant TV show production. And for living up to the pledge, so far anyway, that he would make good and proper use of the culture of the country in which he was filming, which is, ofcourse, Kenya. Pongezi, Bwana Televisioni! Dung beetles! Now that is clever. Who would have thought of making a challenge out of little bugs that push great chunks of animal waste around? And then going even further and tying it to the Myth of Sysiphus? Well done, Mark. And assistants. I would also like to doff my pith helmet for the cow sticking sequence. I thought that was very well presented. Other than the utter nonsense of swabbing the cows neck in an attempt to make it look more sterile and that rather absurd statement from JP about the cleanliness of it all and how harmless the blood would be to the contestants. Those cows drink whatever water they can. They are, I am sure, happy for any tar smelling, mold covered, bug infested, dung floating, pond scum there is on tap. They eat whatever grass is available regardless of what, or who, it was fertilized with. Unless that cow was imported from a nice, nearby organic dairy farm, of which there are none, there is no way that its blood was in anyway totally safe for American consumption. We do not have the tolerance for the bacteria that people who were raised in that part of the world do. And that arrow was not sterilized. Or painless. The cow nearly levitated when hit and that was not a sign of glee. But, that is another topic; it was certainly authentic enough.
Kenya - The People are 42 tribes living in Kenya, as well as all of the nonAfrican people groups . rendille and Orma speaking groups occupy the north western part. http://kenya.rcbowen.com/people/
Extractions: Literacy : 69.4% (Male: 75.7, Female 63.3) 1989 census According to the 1989 Census, there are 42 tribes living in Kenya, as well as all of the non-African people groups. As such, it is difficult to make general comments about people in Kenya. Of course, since folks email me all the time looking for me to write their highschool research paper for them, here's some general information: English is the official language while Kiswahili is the national language. That means that government and education are in English, while everything else tends to be in Swahili. And, in actuality, most of government is in Swahili also. In addition to these two languages, most of the people in Kenya also speak what they would call their "mother tongue" - the language that they grew up speaking. While an increasing number of city-dwellers are growing up speaking English, most rural people still speak their tribal languages when they go home. Kenya's African population is divided on three linguistic groups: Bantu . Concentrations in three main geographical regions - Western Kenya and Lake Victoria region (Luhya, Kisii), east of Rift Valley, (Kikuyu, Embu, Kamba) and Coastal belt (Mijikenda).
Globally Engaged Currently he is leading a study of rendille sexual behaviour in order to helpprevent Half a million people are currently infected with African sleeping http://oia.uvic.ca/feature/4_2004/
Extractions: Contemporary research is a global enterprise. The exchange of knowledge and the extent of the community of scholars in any academicdiscipline reach around the world. And in this international arena, UVic researchers are playing major roles. As individual scholars or members of large interdisciplinary teams, UVic faculty members from every field participate in a wide range of international projects. They are conducting fundamental research, pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. And they are engaged in international development projects, creating new forms of partnership to address social, economic, political, and environmental issues around the world. They probe the nature of matter and develop new vaccines. They work with governments and nongovernmental organizations to promote international understanding, health, education, democracy and peace. And they help local communities improve the lives of their citizens. On the picture (from left): Ana Maria Peredo, Michel Lefebvre, Alan Pence, Leslie Butt (This feature was originally published in the "Research at the University of Victoria 2003/2004" report)
Eldis - Pastoralism among East African pastoralist populations including the rendille, Samburu, Affiliations/membership American Anthropological Association; African http://www.eldis.org/pastoralism/people/Fratkin.htm
Extractions: As Christianity fights to keep its place in an increasingly secular European society, it is flourishing in parts of the developing world, particularly in Africa. The single-engined plane wobbled violently on its approach to the dirt strip at Marsabit, but the McGregor family maintained a cheerful calm. Two hours earlier in Nairobi the diminutive woman pilot had strapped us in and then announced: "I'm going to pray now," in a way that suggested more than just a perfunctory formality. But the McGregors - an improbably blond family of Anglican missionaries from Florida - were bouncing down safely enough amid a cloud of red dust, and about to be greeted by an impromptu committee of indigenous children posed around an ancient bicycle. The McGregors had arrived with the Christian message for the nomadic camel herders on Kenya's northern borders. These are what are known as the "un-reached" - people with traditional African religions never before approached by missionaries.
ITDG - East Africa - Peace Building: August 2003 As violent conflicts become more and more rampant in africa, efforts to curb If our people are adamant to peaceful coexistence, the government will do http://www.itdg.org/?id=region_east_africa_peace2_peacebuilding
National Museums Of Kenya The people of Kenya can be grouped broadly into two according to their originand into indigenous medicine, witchcraft and magic in African communities http://www.museums.or.ke/enthoclub/kenyacult.html
Extractions: Contact Us Culture C ulture is taken to be the sum of all learnt human behaviour. This in essence, means that culture encompasses all the non-genetic characteristics expressed by humans. That being the case, culture, then, can only be transmitted through the process of socialization, or social education, from generation to generation. The allure of discovering new forms of behaviour is the motivation behind the desire to travel. Once we discover alien cultural traits in terms of beliefs, rules of conduct and norms, even taboos and superstitions, our preconceived ideas are gradually supplanted and replaced with knowledge and appreciation. The human propensity to discriminate against others is more often than not a function of ignorant arrogance. We usually place ourselves on a pedestal of high, nay pure cultural and moral standing. We place our culture a notch higher than others. This is the basis of ethnocentrism, itself a concept founded in the fertility of ignorance. That means we debase that which we do not know since we have not come into contact with it. Apart from the norms and beliefs, as it were the materials cultures of other people are an important element of tourism. How do they dress, conduct business, how do they produce and process food and what makes up their diet? How do they bury their dead?
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY ST. FRANCIS XAVIER REQUIRED READING Nash, June1995 The reassertion of indigenous Robertson,AF 1984 People and the state an anthropology of planned development. http://www.stfx.ca/academic/sociology/Courses/OutlineANTH3650001.htm
Extractions: ANTH 365 Anthropology of Development 2001-2002 : This course explores the contribution anthropology makes to the study of development. It begins with an analysis of the definition of development. Then we look at anthropological research on conditions of "developing" societies. Finally, the course turns to a discussion of the contribution anthropology makes to intentional development, along with a critique of this type of development.
The Centre For Advanced Studies Of African Society Language, NEOCOLONIALISM AND the African development challenge It is inlanguage that the genius of people is ultimately registered at both the http://www.casas.co.za/papers_language.htm
Extractions: Cape Town Published in TRIcontinental, Havana, Cuba, No. 150, 2002 It is indeed amazing that at the onset of a new millennium, Africa represents today the only major historical and cultural area of the world where despite their indigenous socio-cultural majorities, countries prefer to use the languages of their erstwhile masters in their attempts to develop and make social progress. The result of this neo-colonial approach to culture and democracy is that the scientific and technological culture of Africans is hardly advancing. Actually, Africa, by and large, is retrogressing or stagnating. Mass society and its culture is shut off, and condemned to cultural backwardness and alienation from the life of the elite. The elite in turn is bent on what many social critics regard as mindless imitation of the colonial and metropolitan cultures of the west. This is an orientation, which in effect integrates the elite more into the culture of the former colonial masters than the indigenous cultures from where this elite historically and socially derives.
