Earth Transformed Ladi Kwali a study of indigenous and modern techniques of identity and artistryamong the Mandespeaking peoples of West Töpferei der baule (Elfenbeinküste http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/african-ceramic-arts/resources/bibliography.html
MA African/Asian History French Colonial Rule and the baule peoples (Oxford, 1980 S. Akiner, The Islamic peoplesof the Soviet Union of that expansion on the indigenous populations of http://web.soas.ac.uk/History/_themes/maafricaasia.htm
Extractions: history@soas.ac.uk Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4600 Fax: +44(0)20 7898 4639 Contact Webmaster at mcharney@aol.com MA PROGRAMME IN AFRICAN AND ASIAN HISTORY Prospectus entry (PDF) Students will take THREE courses during the academic year. One of these will be designated the Major, and the student then prepares his or her dissertation in this area. The two other courses are called Minors. Teaching is generally by informal lectures and seminar discussions. Entrance Qualifications: A good Second Class Honours degree of a UK university, or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard obtained after a course of study extending over not less than three years in a university (or educational institution of university rank), in History, or a related discipline in the Humanities or Social Sciences. Those whose mother tongue is not English must take the English test run by the British Council (IELTS). Length of Course: Full-time: One calendar year Part-time: Two or Three calendar years Note : The programme of study over two calendar years and the examinations associated with them will be arranged with two of the four elements in each year (the dissertation would normally be taken in the second year).
Untitled division of labor among sedentary peoples associates women and politically withina weakened indigenous order, and Among the baule of the Ivory Coast, French http://www.utc.edu/~smurgai/theories.htm
Extractions: Theories That Explain the Subordinate Status of Women (pg. 4- 24) Trained to look to the specifics of place and time rather than to the creation of theory, historians have often left to anthropologists the task of theorizing doubt the origins of women's oppression or the factors that account for women's subordinate status. Yet teaching about the history of women in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East raises questions in students' minds about the ultimate cause of the experience that is being described. For this reason, it is useful to review these theories, recognizing that the debate continues to rage. A basic division runs between biologically oriented and socio-culturally oriented theories. The former finds significance in a relative universality of physical characteristics among humans and of a gender division of labor that assigns men to "public" and women to "private" activities. This commonality is attributed to genetic or physical differences. The environmentalists stress the equally apparent diversity of humans, physically and
Etnoarchaeology Of Iron Production - Xander Veldhuijzen BC 1 until recently by African peoples all over The Ekonda (Zaïre) The Djerma (Niger)The baule (Chad) The scrapmetal replaced most of the indigenous smelting http://www.arkeologi.net/articles/xander_veldhuijzen1.html
Extractions: Chemical and microscopical investigation of the remains add many technical details about the process of making iron, but when one tries to reconstruct the full sequence of actions, one is still left with large gaps in knowledge and understanding. It is therefore logical to search for a comparable set of data. Other archaeological evidence of early ironmaking is scarce and hampered by the same paucity of finds as encountered at Tell Hammeh. Even worse, many archaeological slag or furnace remains are just mentioned and never researched.
HOME TEST PAGE There is a peoples Database which includes the Ashanti, Bamana, baule, Bwa, Dogon,Fang twostory architecture, Islam and indigenous African cultures http://www.msu.edu/~metzler/matrix/dream/humanities.html
Extractions: LIST OF IMPORTANT AFRICA-RELATED WEB SITES Introduction Culture Current Events Economics ... Society ART Extensive site for the traveling art exhibit from the Field Museum, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and others. Includes video, photographs on the history and art of the Royal Palace of the Bamum (Cameroun), conflict resolution among the BaKongo (Congo-Brazzaville and Kinshasa, Angola), Benin history through elephant tusks and Benin bronzes, metal working, use of gold weights, commerce across the Sahara, the market in Kano (Nigeria), men's hats, combs/jewelry, rock art, a Liberian folk tale, the role of masks, drums, kora music from Senegal, the elephant as a royal animal, and more. Has a
SENEGAL After receiving the baule, the Bakhoy, now a river of indigo is abundant, and thecotton plant is indigenous. a widespread group of allied peoples bearing many http://59.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SE/SENEGAL.htm
Extractions: SENEGA, the dried root of the Polygala Senega, which is official in the British and United States pharmacopoeias. Senega contains an active principle, saponin. Senega is used chiefly as a stimulating expectorant in chronic bronchitis. It is occasionally used as a diuretic mn.renaldropsy. Itisacardiacdepressant, and is contra-indicated in diseased conditions of the heart. It has a tendency to upset the digestion, and is therefore only used in combination with other drugs in what are termed expectorant mixtures. SENEGAL, a river of West Africa, entering the Atlantic about 16° N., some 10 m. below St Louis, after a course of fully 1000 m. It is formed by the junction of the Bafing or Black river and the Bakhoy or White river, and its chief affluent is the Faleme. North of the Senegal the Sahara reaches the coast, and for over 1o0o miles no river enters the ocean. The Baling rises in the Futa Jallon highlands about 2400 ft. above sea-level, in io° 28 N., 10° 5 W., its source being within 125 m. of Konakry on the Gulf of Guinea. It is joined in about 11° 10 N. and i1° 45 W. by the Tene, which rises in. 13° W. and
Articles Yoruba, Toucouleur, Fang, Mangbetu, and baule still be nevertheless recognized twogreat indigenous nations in latter included the southernmost peoples of the http://www.marcusgarvey.com/ch3.htm
Art artisan's handwork of earth tones of indigenous art have by Marc Ginzberg, et al *baule African Art rather than the cultural traditions, of African peoples. http://www.griotwoman.com/customer/art/art.html
Extractions: Beti Ellerson Black Film as a Signifying Practice by Galdstone Yearwood $21.95 BACKCOVER: In Black Film as a Signifying Practice, Galdstone Yearwood explores cinema as part of the black cultural tradition. he argues that black film criticism is best understood as a 20th century development in the history of African-American aesthetic thought, which provides a substantive and accumulative aesthetic and critical tradition for black film studies. The book examines the way black filmmakers use expressive forms and systems of signification that reflect the cultural and historica priorities of the black experience. It delineates howthe African-American expressive tradition utilizes its own vernacular space and time for story telling in the cinema and how black film narration draws on the formal structures of black experience to organize story material. Yearwood focuses on signifying practices in the cinema and the symbol-producing mechanisms tht inform black fimmaking.The book proves valuable insghts into the narrational processes at work in African-American expressive forms and in black culture. Using the frameworkds of an Afrocentric model, Black Film as a Signifying Practice moves away from a preoccupation with balck film as deefined by the dominant society to emphasize how the expressive startegies and cultural mechanisms that have been critical to black survival influence in black fimmaking.
Warren Bibliography 1997b Conservation of indigenous knowledge serves conservation of biodiversity Beliefsof the Bambara and Other peoples by PJ in the Eyes of the baule by Susan http://www.public.iastate.edu/~anthr_info/cikard/warren/bibliography/bibliograph
Untitled were matrilineal societies, such as amongst the Akan peoples of Ghana Christianitythe growth, gifts and diversities of indigenous African churches baule 8N 5W. http://www3.sympatico.ca/ian.ritchie/AFRWOMEN.html
Extractions: AFRICAN THEOLOGY AND THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN AFRICA [a work in progress] Presented to the Canadian Theological Society May 25, 2001 by Ian D. Ritchie, Ph.D. St. John's Anglican Church, 41 Church St., Kingston, ON., K7M 1H2 The paper assesses the role played by African theologians in advancing the status of women in Africa. The perception (common in western church circles) of the African church as a bastion of conservatism and patriarchy will be examined critically. Starting with a brief overview of gender in precolonial Africa, moving to an analysis of the influence of mission Christianity and the African Initiated Churches, the paper concludes with an evaluation of the influence of African theologians. The conclusion that Christianity may be moving African women towards equality more rapidly than in western societies speaks of a positive relationship between academic theology, church and society.[ An earlier version of this article formed a chapter of the author's 1993 doctoral dissertation, African Theology and Social Change.
All H-Net Book Reviews Sorted By List Name Title baule african Art, Western Eyes Reviewer Robert T and Historical SourcesRegarding african indigenous Churches in South africa Writing indigenous http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/index.cgi?sort=list
A R T T H R O B war against the South West African peoples Organisation. art produced for both touristand indigenous markets in colon figures are those by the baule people of http://www.artthrob.co.za/01apr/reviews.html
Extractions: Being in Oudsthoorn at festival time for the first time felt a bit like being transported back to the annual Dutch Reformed Church fetes in the Potchefstroom of my schooldays Ð koeksisters and ingenious but kitschy crafts on every side, and the smell of braaing wors assaulting the nostrils in new waves round every corner. Although slightly marred by three artists who ignored the size requirement for Van den BergÕs show ÔSelf" and turned in much smaller works at the last minute, this second instalment of what is to be a three year project looked very good indeed. Jeremy WaferÕs
Ivory Coast Interview was that at important occasions in peoples' lives such NDA We, the baule, never speakour language in will be a revitalization of indigenous languages because http://www.polk.cc.fl.us/INSTRUCT/ALSS/Charlesf/ANT1000/activities/ivorycoast.ht
Extractions: To protect the identity of our African guest at this turbulent time, both of our interviewees adopted fictitious names. Interview Conducted Fall of 2000 N'Da Akissi (NDA) is an Ivorian citizen and has been teaching high school English for about 20 years. She is a member of the Baule ethnic group. Perry John Newton (PJN) is currently a Polk County resident who spent twenty years in the Ivory Coast, initially as a Peace Corps volunteer (first five years) and then as a public and private English teacher in high schools and universities. PJN Before we began our interview Perry John Newton provided some commentary about relations between the US and Ivory Coast specifically focusing on the relationship of president Houphouet-Boigny to US presidents The President, Houphouet-Boigny, expired on December 7th 1993 in Yamoussoukro, his home town which had become the capitalthe official capital of the country in 1983 by a vote of the national assembly and despite that vote and because of the economic depression taking place ever since the early 80s the country never had the financial means to actually move ministries from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro which is located in the middle of the country. So...the president died in his home and immediately on the 7th there was a little tug of war among the people who were to take over. The constitution said one thing and the people wanted a different scenario tried to do something else. The currency used in the French speaking countries was due for a devaluation, which of course the authorities wouldn't publically announce, but they held off the devaluation until after the President's funeral which was held four months after his death.
Missions Page became part of the Federation of French West africa. Cote d'Ivoire's 97 indigenouspeoples are divided into Others groups are the Agni baule, Malinke, and the http://www.elcs.org/public_html/duberrylinkmissionary.html
Africans Art must consider both perspectives the indigenous as well the cultures of other peoplesonly by from a longstanding Western, imperialistic involvement in africa. http://www.webzinemaker.net/africans-art/index.php3?action=page&id_art=360
Secretary Of State Colin L in savanna woodlands (an area referred to as the baule V for the Most peoplesin the southwestern quadrant practice indigenous religions, though http://www.house.gov/international_relations/108/toun0212.htm
Extractions: Geographical and cultural divisions remain despite the continuing migration of Ivoirians and foreigners from the subregion within the country, moving from east to west and north to south in search of fertile cash crop zones (largely for coffee and cocoa), commercial activities, urbanization, and education. Such population movement has been a source of productivity and growth, cultural diversity and international tourist attraction, as well as socio-political advances and setbacks. As part of this document, an article published in the Journal of Democracy, (2001(July), Vol. 12, no. 3, pp.63-72) in which I explain the persistence of the ethnic factor in national politics is attached. First, the U.S. should support the spirit of the Linas-Marcoussis Agreement signed by nine participating political parties and rebel groups on January 24, 2003. The discussions leading to the Agreement were witnessed by representatives of several African states, international financial institutions ( (World Bank, IMF) and global and regional organizations (UN, EU, AU, ECOWAS) The roundtable was held after the failure of the current regime led by President Gbagbo to respond to interventions by African heads of state and ECOWAS mediation. President Jacques Chirac and his government should be praised for accepting to intervene, both militarily to save lives and diplomatically by facilitating discussions that will, hopefully, lead to a peaceful settlement of hostilities and the appointment of a functional government of reconciliation.
JAIC 1992, Volume 31, Number 1, Article 2 (pp. 03 To 16) It is the intention in this paper to ascertain an indigenous perspective how Africans Baulegroup, Akan peoples, Cote d'Ivoire Stilt dencer, Punu peoples, Gabon http://aic.stanford.edu/jaic/articles/jaic31-01-002.html
Extractions: JAIC 1992, Volume 31, Number 1, Article 2 (pp. 03 to 16) Some specific examples in African art where nontangible attributes might have an effect on treatment decisions can be seen in the following: Should we look inside a Yoruba beaded crown (fig. 1), considered to be the premier piece of divine regalia, to mend the textile lining (fig. 2), or lend slides of its interior to the education department, when in cultural context it is forbidden for anyone, including the king, to view the interior? Should we secure loose and detached fragments of sacrificial patination on a Bamana Komo headdress (fig. 3), when the amount and thickness of this incrustation (fig. 4) are directly related to the degree and effectiveness of its cultural power? How do we justify the public exhibition of an Igala shrine figure (fig. 9), which would have been restricted from public view and seen only by people of a specific age, sex, or initiate? Fig. 1. Crown, Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, Glass beads, basketry, textile, vegetable fiber, metal, H 30 ¾ in (78. 1cm). NMAfA 24-1989-01 (private lender). Photograph by Jeffrey Ploskonka
African Arts Atlanta, GA. baule AFRICAN ART, WESTERN EYES. PreColumbian, and North Americanpeoples. UBUMBA-CLAY. Aspects of indigenous Ceramics in KwaZulu/Natal. http://www.isop.ucla.edu/africanarts/events.html
West Africa - EthnoBass than 60 ethnic groups) baule 23%, Bete 18 English Major ethnic groups indigenousAfrican tribes 95 http://www.ethnobass.org/afr_west.html
Extractions: Home AFRICA page: - Central Africa - East Africa - North Africa - Southern Africa - West Africa AMERICA page: - Caribbean - Central America - Central South America - East. South America - North America - North. South America - South. South America - West. South America ASIA page: - Central Asia - Eastern Asia - Northern Asia - Southern Asia - South Eastern Asia - South Western Asia EUROPE page: - Central Europe - East Europe - North Europe - Southern Europe - South Eastern Europe - South Western Europe - West Europe MIDDLE EAST page COUNTRIES PEOPLES ARTISTS GLOSSARY INTERVIEWS ESSAYS LINKS SERVICES page - CD reviews - Events - Picture Galleries Benim Burkina Faso Cameroon Cape Verde ... Western Sahara Cora Connection: The Manding Music Traditions of West Africa: A information resource dedicated to West African music and culture, maily about Kora, Ngoni and Balafon. Decription: Cora Connection provides information on the folk music traditions of West Africa. Cora Connection sells hard to find recordings, professional quality instruments and offers educational workshops. Map of Benim Population: 6,5 million
Extractions: fig. 2 In order to fully understand the significance of this metaphor, it must be noted that the Yoruba creation myth traces the origin of the human body to an archetypal sculpture (ere) modeled by the artist-deity Obatala and then activated by the divine breath (emi) of Olodumare, located in the sculpture's head. This creative process occurs inside a pregnant woman's body and takes about nine months to mature. According to the myth, every individual, before being born into the physical world, must proceed to the workshop of Ajalamopin, the heavenly potter, to choose one of several undifferentiated, ready-made Ori Inu, or "inner heads" on display in Ajalamopin's workshop. Each inner head contains Olodumare's àse (enabling power), and the one chosen by an individual predetermines his/her lot (ipin) in the physical world.
