Africana.com: Gateway To The Black World.Screen Name Service southern forested area, where agrarian peoples lived in center, such as the Fangand Beti Christian denominations, traditional (or indigenous) religions, and http://www.africana.com/Articles/tt_646.htm
IK Monitor Publications (7-3) (Yang fang, CIAD, China shifting cultivation patterns as practised by indigenouspeoples in Central America, the Amazon region, and africa.) The author http://www.nuffic.nl/ciran/ikdm/7-3/publicat.html
Extractions: Contents IK Monitor (7-3) IKDM Homepage ikdm@nuffic.nl Publications Bandyopadhyay, Mridula and Stewart MacPherson (1998) Women and health: Tradition and culture in rural India . 217 pp. ISBN 1 84014 349 5. GBP37.50 Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Gower House, Croft Road, Aldershot, Hants GU11 3HR, England. Fax: +44-1252-317 446. Unfortunately, the figures against which the research findings are compared are outdated. Maternity mortality rates from 1985 are quoted, and abortion-related mortality rates from 1977. For population and literacy, figures are used from the Indian census of 1981. WHO figures from 1985 are used to point out that only 60 percent of births in the world are assisted by trained attendants. Would it not have been more useful to use more recent data, which are readily availablefor instance, figures from the Indian census of 1991, the latest Human Development Report, and the UNFPA reports published every year? While the importance of quantitative data should not be discounted, the study can be criticized for sometimes remaining at the level of facts and figures. For instance, the authors mention religion as an influencing factor, but do not explain how. One reason mentioned for women of Motipur village preferring to deliver their babies at home rather than in hospital is that they feel intimidated by health-care officials and are wary of them, as they are afraid they will be sterilized immediately after birth without their knowledge or consent. Did the authors not think this was worth investigating? If it were corroborated in other villages as well, could this not be an important reason for the low utilization of post-natal health services, rather than tradition alone? A suggestion for future research: it might be interesting to examine intergenerational differences regarding the research questions, using educational attainment within a household as a variable.
Extractions: SW China is especially renowned for the uniqueness and variety of its flora, fauna and indigenous ethnic peoples. In some locations the untouched ecosystems are among the most diverse living assemblies on earth (Smil 1984). Although its recorded history is not as well known as Han China, there is evidence that the people have lived sustainably with their fragile world for 2,000 years, and still exhibit a conservation ethic deeply embedded both in historic government Tsatsig and in their animistic and Tibetan Buddhist traditions (Bjork 1993, Tenzin P Atisha 1996, Chen Liang 12/9/98). Since 1950 the world has witnessed the negative impact of modernity both on SW China's environment, and on the socio-cultural systems of its indigenous peoples.. Modernity rather than enhancing their well being is seemingly destroying their environment and indigenous culture and robbing them of their means of life. In 1997 China announced plans for reforestation, conservation and forest tourism, but the serious Yangtze floods of 1998 caused the government to impose a complete felling ban on the forests of SW China and to close 9m ha of grazing land, for reforestation. Although China, seemingly had to halt the planned "mining" of its second forest production base, the phased introduction of a suite of measures, including, conservation
AMU CHMA NEWSLETTER #10 (05/25/1993) recent discoveries about indigenous African mathematics of the Tchokwe and neighbouringpeoples in Angola by the Duala (Cameroon), fang (Cameroon, Equitorial http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/AMU/amu_chma_10.html
Extractions: AMUCHMA-NEWSLETTER-10 Chairman: Paulus Gerdes (Mozambique) Secretary: Ahmed Djebbar (Algeria) TABLE OF CONTENTS NEWSLETTER #10 Objectives of AMUCHMA Meetings Current research interests Bibliography on Astronomy in Africa south of the Sahara ... back to AMUCHMA ONLINE 2. MEETINGS 2.1 First AMU Symposium on Mathematics Education in Africa for the 21st Century William Ebeid, Chairman of the AMU Commission on Mathematics Education, presented at the First AMU Symposium on Mathematics Education in Africa for the 21st Century (Cairo, Egypt, 5-10 September, 1992) a paper entitled "Research in Mathematics Education in Egypt". He gave an overview on the 240 theses (171 M.Ed. and 69 Ph.D.) in Mathematics Education defended at Egyptian universities in the period 1954-1990. 2.2 Seminar "Mathematics, Philosophy, and Education" Salimata Doumbia (Côte d'Ivoire) and Paulus Gerdes (Mozambique) conducted a workshop on 'Ethnomathematics / Mathematics in the African Cultural Environment' at the international seminar "Mathematics, Philosophy, and Education" (Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, 25-29 January, 1993). In one of the plenary sessions of the same seminar, Gerdes presented a paper entitled 'Ethnomathematics as a new research area in Africa'. 2.3 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Adherents.com: By Location 70. In Gabon, the fang represent 25 1998), Muslim 90%, Christian 9%, indigenousbeliefs 1%; Total Original src Weeks, R. (ed.), Muslim peoples A World http://www.adherents.com/adhloc/Wh_107.html
Extractions: Notes Protestant French Polynesia 1997 Britannica Book of the Year . Pg. 781-783. Protestant French Polynesia *LINK* CIA World Factbook web site (viewed Aug. 1998) Protestant 54%, Roman Catholic 30%, other 16%; Total Population: 233,488. Protestant French Polynesia Gall, Timothy L. (ed). . Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998), pg. 733. "Tahiti had a population of 115,000 people as 1988; the current population is estimated at over 120,000. "; Pg. 733: "Today, Protestants account for 55% of the population and Catholics for 30%... " secular French Polynesia *LINK* web site: "Ethnologue Database " (viewed circa Dec. 1998) "Religion: Christian 87%, secular 12% "
West Africa - EthnoBass four major tribal groupings (fang, Eshira, Bapounou English Major ethnic groups indigenousAfrican tribes 95 http://www.ethnobass.org/afr_west.html
TDS; Passports, Visas, Travel Documents Ewondo, Bulu (subgroup of Beti), fang (subgroup of nonIslamic or recently Islamicpeoples of the Religions Christian 53%, Muslim 22%, indigenous African 25%. http://www.traveldocs.com/cm/people.htm
Extractions: Cameroon Cameroon's estimated 250 ethnic groups form five large regional-cultural groups: western highlanders (or grassfielders), including the Bamileke, Bamoun, and many smaller entities in the northwest (est. 38% of population); coastal tropical forest peoples, including the Bassa, Douala, and many smaller entities in the Southwest (12%); southern tropical forest peoples, including the Ewondo, Bulu (subgroup of Beti), Fang (subgroup of Beti), Maka and Pygmies (officially called Bakas) (18%); predominantly Islamic peoples of the northern semi-arid regions (the Sahel) and central highlands, including the Fulani, also known as Peuhl in French (14%); and the "Kirdi", non-Islamic or recently Islamic peoples of the northern desert and central highlands (18%). The people concentrated in the southwest and northwest provincesaround Buea and Bamendause standard English and "pidgin," as well as their local languages. In the three northern provincesAdamaoua, north, and far northeither French or Fulfulde, the language of the Fulani, is widely spoken. Elsewhere, French is the principal second language, although pidgin and some local languages such as Ewondo, the dialect of a Beti clan from the Yaounde area, also are widely spoken. Although Yaounde is Cameroon's capital, Douala is the largest city, main seaport, and main industrial and commercial center.
PRECOLONIAL METALWORKING IN AFRICA A BIBLIOGRAPHY. PRECOLONIAL METALWORKING IN africa A BIBLIOGRAPHY. MILLER T. MAGGS Originally compiled by Dr Tim Maggs and staff of the Natal Museum, Private Bag 9070, Pietermaritzburg 3200, South africa. http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/age/material/metbib.htm
Don't Hurry Back - Viewing Race Film Cobb's contemplative piece on her journeys to West africa. http://www.viewingrace.org/browse_sub.php?film_id=85&subject_id=7
Search Sessions He, Georgia Southern University; Mu fang, Bond International http://tigersystem.net/aera2002/searchsessions.asp?sessID=2503