Indigenous Mathematics Of North America - Mathematics And The and the Tshokwe, Bushoong, and kpelle of africa. The Bushoong, and The kpelle ofGuinea. and geometric shapes in various North American indigenous peoples. http://math.truman.edu/~thammond/history/IndigenousNorthAmerica.html
Extractions: To refine search, see subtopics The Inuit American Indians , and The Bellacoola . To expand search, see Indigenous American Mathematics and North America . Laterally related topics: Indigenous Mathematics of Central and South America and The United States The Mathematics and the Liberal Arts pages are intended to be a resource for student research projects and for teachers interested in using the history of mathematics in their courses. Many pages focus on ethnomathematics and in the connections between mathematics and other disciplines. The notes in these pages are intended as much to evoke ideas as to indicate what the books and articles are about. They are not intended as reviews. However, some items have been reviewed in Mathematical Reviews , published by The American Mathematical Society. When the mathematical review (MR) number and reviewer are known to the author of these pages, they are given as part of the bibliographic citation. Subscribing institutions can access the more recent MR reviews online through MathSciNet Ascher, Marcia and Ascher, Robert. Ethnomathematics.
Indigenous American Mathematics - Mathematics And The Liberal Indians, The Sioux, and The kpelle of Guinea Less is known about astronomy in africa,but the are many interesting examples from the indigenous peoples of North http://math.truman.edu/~thammond/history/IndigenousAmericas.html
Extractions: To refine search, see subtopics Indigenous Mathematics of North America and Indigenous Mathematics of Central and South America . To expand search, see The Americas . Laterally related topics: North America and Central and South America The Mathematics and the Liberal Arts pages are intended to be a resource for student research projects and for teachers interested in using the history of mathematics in their courses. Many pages focus on ethnomathematics and in the connections between mathematics and other disciplines. The notes in these pages are intended as much to evoke ideas as to indicate what the books and articles are about. They are not intended as reviews. However, some items have been reviewed in Mathematical Reviews , published by The American Mathematical Society. When the mathematical review (MR) number and reviewer are known to the author of these pages, they are given as part of the bibliographic citation. Subscribing institutions can access the more recent MR reviews online through MathSciNet Ascher, Marcia. Before the conquest.
MapZones.com People In the southwest the indigenous Kwa peoples also belonging to d'Ivoire since the 17thcentury include the Ane (or Mina), the GaAdangme, the kpelle and the http://www.mapzones.com/world/africa/togo/peopleindex.php
Extractions: Country Info Togo Introduction Togo General Data Togo Maps Togo Culture ... Togo Time and Date Togo People Back to Top The population of Togo comprises about 30 ethnic groups, many of whom are immigrants from other parts of western Africa. The groups indigenous to Togo live in the north and southwest. The northern groups include the following Gur-speaking Voltaic peoples: the Gurma; the Natemba, Dye, Bu-Bankam, Bu-Kombong, and Konkomba; the Tamberma; the Basari; the Moba; the Naudemba (Losso); the Kabre and Logba; and the Namba (Lamba); a small number of West Atlantic-speaking Fulani; and the Kebu (Akebu). In the southwest the indigenous Kwa peoples also belonging to the central Togo group are the Akposo, the Adele, and the Ahlo. The immigrants came from east, west, and north. The Ewe, who emigrated from Nigeria between the 14th and 16th century, form the major ethnic group. There are also some scattered Yoruba, mainly Ana. Groups who emigrated from present-day Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire since the 17th century include the Ane (or Mina), the Ga-Adangme, the Kpelle and the Anyana, the Chakossi, and the Dagomba. The northern groups of the Tem (Kotokoli and Temba), Gurma, and Mossi came from the north, mainly from areas in Burkina Faso. Egypt Maps
Anthropology 001 Fall Semester 1996 I appreciate your interest in learning more about this complex, crucial, and littleunderstood area of the world. 195a SEMINAR peoples AND CULTURES OF africa FALL 1996 constructions of africa through indigenous literature, travelers reports, and chiefdoms (Suku, kpelle) Mixed economies with http://www.westmont.edu/syllabusarchive/1997Spring/Social_Science/AN195A~1.DOC
Stanford University - Anthropological Sciences - Faculty Notes editor of and contributor to peoples of africa Paye, which portrays conflict resolutionamong the kpelle. a Program Director for indigenous Resource Management http://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthsci/faculty-notes.htm
Extractions: For contact information, check out Stanford Who Dr. Barnett's dual interests in medical anthropology and in the application of anthropology to contemporary problems have led to fieldwork in Arizona (Navajo and Zuni), Guatemala, Peru (Vicos), Ethiopia, and contemporary U.S. society. Earlier in his career, Dr. Barnett carried out culture-at-a-distance studies of Poland and Cuba, both published in the Human Relations Area Files series on world cultures (along with similar studies he contributed on the Soviet Union, Iran and Ethiopia). He left the faculty of Cornell University Medical School in 1964 to accept a joint appointment at Stanford in the Departments of Anthropology and Pediatrics. At Stanford, Dr. Barnett has carried out interdisciplinary studies of premature infants and intensive nursery care; the impact of genetic counseling on the reproductive decisions made by families; implementation and impact of state-wide child health programs; and problems of the elderly. He also has co-directed a study of population genetics, population dynamics and culture change among Mayan Indians on the shores of Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. Presently Dr. Barnett is working in three areas: the relationship of stress to poor pregnancy outcomes among teenagers in San Jose, California; the relationship of diet and activity to the increase in diabetes among Navajo Indians; and as co-director of the Zuni-Stanford Program, an interdisciplinary program involving Stanford faculty, administration and students in a variety of projects at Zuni, New Mexico, being carried out at the request of Zuni tribal and school officials.
Resource Information Center Liberia Information On The Physical ethnic community organizations / cultural heritage / indigenous peoples. draw membersfrom the kpelle, Mende, Loma africa researcher Solomon Toweh notes that http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/text/services/asylum/ric/documentation/LBR01001.htm
Community Radios Worldwide linguistic and cultural minorities, indigenous peoples, migrants and human rightsbattles in africa and other Liberian English, Lorma, Kissi, kpelle, Krahn, Kru http://www.radiorobinhood.fi/communityradios/eng/alerts.htm
Liberia 53, 60 5 (2000 est) Ethnic groups 95 indigenous peoples, including the kpelle,Bassa, Gio The blue canton symbolizes the dark continent of africa. http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/countryfacts/liberia.html
Extractions: Encyclopaedia Country Facts On This Day ... Wildlife TOOLS Car Insurance Cheap Flights Downloads Email By Phone ... What's On TISCALI About Us Business Services Investor Relations Contact Us Find a country's flag, map or national anthem here. Click on a letter to find the country: A B C D ... Z Or search for a country: GENERAL INFORMATION National name Republic of Liberia Area 111,370 sq km/42,999 sq mi Capital Monrovia (and chief port) Major towns/cities Bensonville, Saniquillie, Gbarnga, Voinjama, Buchanan Major ports Buchanan, Greenville Physical features forested highlands swampy tropical coast where six rivers enter the sea back to top GOVERNMENT Head of state and government Charles Ghankay Taylor from 1997 Political system emergent democracy Political executive limited presidency Administrative divisions 13 counties Political parties National Democratic Party of Liberia (NDPL), nationalist, left of centre National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), left of centre United Democratic Movement of Liberia for Democracy (Ulimo), left of centre National Patriotic Party (NPP), antidemocratic
Extractions: A Cultural Revolution in Africa: The Role of Literacy in the Republic of Guinea since Independence Dianne White Oyler, Ph.D. Fayetteville State University. Songs of Souleymane Kanté Ecriture Télé-Enseignement Intervention ... kafa lu serede Culture is a better means of domination than the gun. "Ahmed Sékou Touré" At the time of their independence most African nations attempted a process of decolonization in the three spheres of European imperialism, political, economic, and cultural. While this process in the political and economic arenas is apparent, decolonization of the cultural area is much harder to define and to illustrate because European cultural impositions had usurped the areas of language, socialization through education, and technology from simple writing to electronic media. However, in the Republic of Guinea the process can be clearly documented. Its approach to cultural decolonization can be analyzed in light of the more formal Cultural Revolution launched by its independence leader Sékou Touré in 1958 as a policy of the First Republic. Tourés objective was to validate the indigenous cultures that had been denigrated by the Europeans while at the same time creating a Guinean national consciousness. In other words, Touré launched a country-wide campaign to recapture indigenous culture by formally focusing on language and education.
Africa:Forests Under Threat projects create seldom improve local peoples' quality of for sustainable forestexploitation, indigenous people practiced are home to the kpelle, Bassa, Gio http://www.wrm.org.uy/countries/Africa/trouble7.html
Extractions: By different means the World Bank is one of the major and most influential promoters of the prevailing monoculture tree plantation model. The International Finance Corporation (IFC) - a part of the World Bank Group, whose specific task is the promotion of private sector investment in "poor" countries - has been directly investing in projects linked to tree plantations, for example in Kenya and Brazil. The Liberian Agricultural Company (LAC) will receive a loan of US$ 3.5 million to develop a rubber plantation in its 120,000 hectares estate. Between 1961 and 1984 the company had planted rubber there in an area of 10,500 hectares, which was abandoned because of the civil war. According to its promoters, the project will create jobs, provide health and education, and improve rural infrastructure, benefiting 800 small holders. The silent destruction of the forests Seldom are there news arriving from Liberia. This country, located in the West African region, with shores on the Atlantic Ocean and bounded in the West by Sierra Leone, Guinea in the North and Ivory Coast in the East, ranks amongst the world's poorest countries and bears the weight of a huge foreign debt. An accelerated process of environmental degradation - including forests - is also affecting the country. Several activities - as mining, plantations and logging - are destroying the dense tropical rainforests.
WRM Bulletin Nº 58 / May 2002 of which are home to the kpelle, Bassa, Gio is latest gateway for rape of africa'srainforests , The mid 1980s, the plight of the indigenous peoples of Sarawak http://www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin/58.html
Liberia African tribes 95% (including kpelle, Bassa, Gio based on unwritten tribal practicesfor indigenous sector. Harry MONIBA, chairman; Liberian peoples Party or http://www.virtualsources.com/Countries/Africa Countries/Liberia.htm
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West Africa A majority of the population is indigenous Africans who make up more The largest arethe kpelle and Bassa. of the Yoruba, Ibo, and northern Moslem peoples is a http://maps.unomaha.edu/Peterson/funda/Notes/Notes_Exam4/WAfrica.html
Extractions: Regional Characteristics Countries References Questions Located in sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa is defined by a series of elongated countries that border the Atlantic Ocean, with an exception of Burkina Faso. The countries are small in area compared to the other parts of Africa. Western Africa makes up the largest population cluster in sub-Saharan Africa. Most of the population lives in the southern coastal area, along the Atlantic, a result of European trading that led to economic development beginning in the 1200s. The area consists of plateaus with coastal plains. The coastal areas have a tropical climate while the northern areas transition to savannas. The countries to the north that extend across the southern Sahara tend to be very large, mostly steppe, and contain a lot of deserts. While the remaining West African countries tend to be smaller, elongated and have wetter environments. West African agriculture is based on cash crops for exports in the coastal trade areas. There are many different sorts of exports that come out of Western Africa. The most common crops are peanuts, sorghum, cotton, rice, cassava, coffee, and livestock. One of the most important crops for countries like Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana is cacao, which is grown in the fertile soil of the wet areas. The countries of West Africa have incomes to a large extent derived from the sale of their products on the international market.
Online Readings In Psychology And Culture, Unit 3, Chapter 1 for trading, emerged among indigenous coastal peoples of africa total dismantlingof the slaves' indigenous languages, it 1971) found that the kpelle of Liberia http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~culture/jones.htm
Extractions: E-mail: journals@indiana.edu In the Sukuma area of northwest Tanzania, farmer-musicians, or farmers who compose and perform music, introduce themselves in public interactions first as farmers, with the phrase "I am a farmer, I hold a hoe," and second as performers, with the phrase "I am also a dancer, I twirl a hoe." Identification with music operates on many psychological and cultural levels from childhood to old age, and is reinforced and expressed most cogently in their use of song during cotton farming. Cotton farming is a relatively recent chapter in Sukuma history, a result of (and creative response to) British colonial government requirements between the two world wars. A new farming class emerged, which drew on prior musical labor fraternities such as medicinal societies, hunting societies, porters, and military organizations for their personnel, musical repertory, and dance paraphernalia. The Sukuma made the imposition of long-distance migrant labor and cotton cropping their own by making these labors musical. The author discusses how Sukuma farmers developed musical farming from these prior musical labor practices, and provides several examples of this transformation.
Liberia Fact File Bandi, Bassa, Gio, Gola, Grebo Kissi, kpelle Krahn, Kru the Elizabeths missionto africa and the between the AmericoLiberians and the indigenous peoples. http://www.iss.co.za/AF/profiles/Liberia/LIBERIA1.HTML
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Analysis pp.4251 of 'Back to africa' by Richard For instance, a kpelle student should be testedon Exhibits of artifacts depicting indigenous peoples should be readily http://www.newdemocrat.org/other/WalshJones.html
Extractions: CONTACT the Next Immigration Near You if any of the listed persons is seen. The Illusion of Unity: A Rejoinder to Mrs. Sando Jones'Fallacies By Renford Engelbert Walsh 30 January 2003 INTRODUCTION Mrs. Sando Jones' January 23, 2003 letter to the 'New Democrat' with caption ' You, The Tribalist is a classic example of some of the fallacious analyses that some Liberians cultivate and dissipate. Such people tend to ignore many of the historical facts associated with Liberia's evolution and unknowingly utter comments which may spark controversy. That's just what happened recently, which has led this author to contribute to the discussion. Accordingly, this article seeks to deviate from the norm of staunchly defending vested interests of either side. Rather, it begins with an analysis of the problem, proceeds to a definition of Americo-Liberians and examines some of the misconceptions retained about that group. In later sections, some suggestions shall be proffered to readers as possible measures which could be taken to facilitate unification of the two historic groups. Lastly, an opportunity would be used to draw attention to an emerging dichotomy between most Liberians who have natural-born ancestry and other Liberians who have strong ties to immigrants from neighboring African countries.
Ghana4 for Environment Information Knowledge in africa (CEIKA privacy rights for individualsand indigenous peoples, and liability Danian kpelle, Wildlife Department. http://easd.org.za/Eis/repts/Ghana/ghanap.htm
African Studies Videos Vital concepts indigenous to the Ibos of southeastern Nigeria Many old customs ofthe kpelle are still alive the Mossi, Winiama, Bobo and other peoples of the http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/afvid.html
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