Igor Kopytoff National Science Foundation Research Grant (wum, Western Cameroon) 196970 1971. (ed), peoples of africa 1979 indigenous african Slavery Commentary One. http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~kopytoff/
Extractions: Contact Information I am a general practitioner in cultural anthropology, with an ethnographic focus on Africa and with some past research in northern Asia. More specifically, my interests, research, and publications deal with social structure, political organization, and religion - and the process of transformation in them. I have also worked and published on slavery as a general cultural phenomenon, with a special interest in indigenous slavery in Africa as a culture-historical phenomenon. I have done fieldwork in the Congo, Cameroon, and the Ivory Coast. IGOR KOPYTOFF
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Extractions: V - Z Last update: 10-11-2002 VAI (Liberia, Sierra Leone) VANDALEN VANDALS (Europa - Europe) VASAVO (Pakistan) VASI (Afghanistan) ... VUMBA (Kenia - Kenya) WAAMA (Togo) WACCAMAW (Native American, USA) WAGDI (India) WAGGAMAW (Native American, USA) ... WYANDOT (Native American) XA CAU KHO MU (Vietnam) XA DANG XA DONG XA KHAO XA XUA KHANG (Vietnam) XA LAVANG MANG (Vietnam) XAM HONG CONG (Vietnam) ... XTIENG BU DEC BU LO (Vietnam) YAGHNABIS (Rusland - Russia) YAKA (Democratische Republiek Congo - Democratic Republic Congo, Angola) YAKAN (Filipijnen - the Philippines) YAKIMA (Native American, USA) ... YURAK SAMOYEDS (Rusland - Russia) ZAORE (Burkina Faso) ZAMUCO SAMUCO (Venezuela) ZAPAROS (Ecuador) ZAPOTECA ZAPOTECS (Mexico) ... ZYRIAN (Rusland - Russia)
Chapter 1 Clearinghouse on Forests Corporations The Purpose of the Clearinghouse industry and its tree plantations, with case studies of Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, South africa, Indonesia, and Thailand. http://www.era.anthropology.ac.uk/Kaberry/Kaberry_text/ch1pt1.html
Extractions: BEFORE we examine the economy of Bamenda and its bearing on the position of women, a somewhat detailed account of the history, ethnic character and distribution of the peoples is necessary since very little information has been published. The total population of the Province as given in the Annual Report for 948 is 301,000; but this is estimated from figures for adult taxable males, the last census having been taken in 1931. The people are negroid, with possibly a northern strain in some of the Tikar tribes. They vary considerably in physique; but, in general, those of the uplands appear to be taller, wirier, and of better build than those of the forest, where malaria, filaria, yaws, goitre and elephantiasis are prevalent. Apart from the analysis of the Nkom language by the Rev. Father Bruens, very little linguistic research has been done in Bamenda. The Basel Mission has translated the New Testament into Bali, and the Roman Catholic Mission has made some study of the language of Nsaw and produced a catechism in Nkom. The languages of Bamenda have hitherto been classified as Benue-Cross River (or semi-Bantu) and the Tikar placed in the Bafumbum-Bansaw group. But, in a recent set of articles dealing with a reclassification of West African languages, Greenberg has suggested that Bali, Bafut and Ndob (and presumably this would be extended to the dialects spoken by other Tikar peoples in Bamenda) are Bantu. But a definitive classification must wait on further research, as well as the publication of the results of the linguistic field survey of the northern Bantu Borderland now being carried out from the French Cameroons.
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Extractions: Buea Cameroon CODESRIA 10 th General Assembly, Kampala, Uganda, 8-12 December 2002 Introduction In the wake of the Beijing Conference on Women Rights, the old debate on the reality or myth of the marginalization of African women in politics since pre-colonial times resurfaced. Even where indigenous female political organizations existed, played important political roles, and had been highlighted by anthropologists who were struggling to understand traditional socio-political organization of African societies ( cf Henn 1978; Guyer 1984; Nkwi 1985; Ritzenthaler 1960; Wipper 1982; Kalb 1985), there is still the stubborn refusal among chauvinist academic circles that African women really matter or ever mattered. Attempts at re-evaluating their roles are interpreted as simple romanticization. Some opinions even hold that women activism in modern times is often teleguided by men and are therefore a disguise instrument of male manipulation. According to Konde (1991) an old male strategy in African politics is the usage of women for the political empowerment of men. The objective of this strategy has always been the same; the methods of its application have change according to circumstances to meet the exigency of the moment. In pre-colonial Cameroon, for example, when men exchanged women in marriage, the women provided their fathers and husbands with social, economic, and military links into other lineages and clans. The alliances that were created from exchanging women, the wealth that was accumulated in bride wealth payment and the work performed by women, and the political prestige and military strength derived from them, accrued to the benefit of men. It was the men who were the partners in these relationships; the women were the pawns, the means to those ends.
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Extractions: Main menu ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Flood, G. 1976. Nomadism and its future: The Afar. In: Hussein, A.M. (ed.) Drought and famine in Ethiopia, p. 64-66. IAI African Environment Special Report (UK), no. 2. International African Inst., London (UK). Note on the effect of the 1973 famine on the living conditions of the Afar in the Awash valley. Descriptors: ETHIOPIA; AFAR ETHNIC GROUP; NOMADISM; AWASH VALLEY. Shears, P. 1976. Drought in south-eastern Ethiopia. In: Hussein, A.M. (ed.) Drought and famine in Ethiopia, p. 89-96. IAI African Environment SpecialReport (UK), no. 2. International African Inst., London (UK). Survey on the background of the Ogaden drought, in Southeastern Ethiopia, existing situation of the people and emergency relief programs in operation, indicating possible alternatives for the future with reference to the water resources of the region. Descriptors: ETHIOPIA; OGADEN; DROUGHT; REHABILITATION; WATER RESOURCES; WATER MANAGEMENT.
Gtt-arm resolutions at http//www.scn.org/earth/wum/. org/ailib/countries/index.html IndigenousEnvironmental Network Justice Louis D. Brandeis Other peoples' Money and http://www.endgame.org/gtt-arm.html
Extractions: www.endgame.org The Purpose of the Clearinghouse What remains of the world's natural forests and forest cultures is rapidly being destroyed, with devastating and irreversible impacts on biodiversity, the global climate, economic self-sufficiency, cultural independence, and human rights. Millions of people in the tropics continue to clear the forest because of inequitable land ownership and the drive to use agricultural land for export crops. Recent trade and investment agreements and policies are exacerbating the concentration of economic and political decisions in the hands of the transnational corporations controlling the global timber trade. National governments, whether in the undeveloped South or in the industrialized North, are no match for the financial and political power of global corporations. In fact, local and national governments, along with national and international development banks and agencies, are actually providing huge subsidies to deforestation. Trade policies
Ideas1000 2000 Ideas Dreams For A Better World ~ Idea 312 ~ 18 May 1995 time therefore to listen to the wisdom of the indigenous people who have an immemorial, intimate knowledge of nature and http://www.robertmuller.org/volume/ideas1001.html
Extractions: During the Vancouver youth conference, a World Passport was distributed to the students to fill out. One of them objected, saying: "In a One United World there is no need for any passports. I propose that there should be a standard World Identity Card, the contents of which would be defined as agreed upon by nations." All twinned cities in the world should prepare and celebrate together the year 2000. Not yet twinned cities should find a partner-city to twin with. A World Community of Cities should be created to increase the love and cooperation between all city people on Earth. It is hard to believe what a little money from people in the rich cities can do for poor, hungry, homeless and illiterate people, especially children, in poor cities. ~ Idea 1003 ~ 9 April 1997 I recommend that a United Nations Consultative Parliament be created immediately, composed of representatives of all existing national Parliaments, under rules of procedures agreed upon by the International Parliamentarian Union. Like the European Consultative Parliament which had only consultative functions but was highly instrumental in creating the European Union, it would have only consultative functions to start with, but would lead to the creation of a much needed World Union. ~ Idea 1004 ~ 10 April 1997
