African Studies - History And Cultures and continuing development of Uganda's indigenous art forms Dxeriku, Hambukushu, Wayeyi,and Xanekwe peoples. Paradise Visualizing Islam in West africa and the http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/cult.html
Extractions: Africa Forum (H-Africa, H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.) "History facing the present: an interview with Jan Vansina" (November 2001) and Reply by Jean-Luc Vellut "Photography and colonial vision," by Paul S. Landau (May 19, 1999, Dept. of History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut) H-Africa Africa Forum Home Page H-Africa Network Home Page
Atlantic Social Studies Curriculum Grade 6 610, indigenous peoples of North America. 7-12, The Heritage Library of Africanpeoples. Asante, Boateng, 0-8239-1975-7, $30.65. dogon, Azuonye, 0-8239-1976-5,$30.65. http://www.saundersbook.ca/curriculum/atlantic_soc_6.html
Extractions: Back To Atlantic Curriculum Atlantic Social Studies Curriculum Grade 6 Curriculum Area R. L. Series Title / Book Title Author ISBN List Price Grade 6 Unit 1: Roots of Culture: Canada Artisans Around the World North America Tull Canadian History New France and the Fur Trade Baldwin Indigenous Peoples of North America The Iroquois Bjornlund Native Americans of the Northwest Coast Jones Native Americans of the Northeast Kallen People Who Made History Native Americans Hook Modern Nations of the World Canada Grabowski Grade 6 Unit 2: Expressions of Culture: West Africa The Library of African American Arts and Culture African American Quilting Greg C. Wilson
CMAC Performing And Visual Arts Meet the dogon people, an isolated indigenous group who to benefit and support theindigenous communities of Committee to Support the Native peoples of Mexico http://www.cmacusa.org/Past Performing Arts.htm
Extractions: Winner of the 2001 Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll in the Best Local Jazz Act category. Matt Steckler, Bill Carbone, Felipe Salles, Garrett Sayers, Jason Hunter, Gary Wicks, Drew Sayers and Charlie Kohlhase make their first appearance at CMAC, with a concert that aims to please both avid jazz and world music listeners as well as music lovers who just enjoy good music, and who don't rely on traditional musical categories and labels when seeking a great night of music. A Trek Through Dogon Country in Mali A slide lecture by award-winning photographer Don Gurewitz is a much requested follow-up to his February exhibit at CMAC "West Africa: A Glimpse of Traditional Life in Mali." Join us for a hike along the desolate and wildly beautiful Bandiagara Escarpment of the Sahel region of Mali. Meet the Dogon people, an isolated indigenous group who still live by their ancient beliefs and customs, in tiny mud and thatch villages above and below a rugged towering 1,000 foot cliff. They eke out a living as farmers and maintain the social structure and work castes of their ancestors, whose abandoned cliff dwellings dot the cliff face.
Sub-Saharan Africa a land of diverse ethnic composition, including the indigenous Pygmy peoples andthe Bantu speaking peoples moving in from West Central africa about a 1,000 http://edtech.suhsd.k12.ca.us/inprogress/bvm/chenson/africa.htm
Overland Club : Africa The dogon used to live in caves on the where the vegetation supports many smallerindigenous animal species However most peoples memory of Yankari are the days http://www.overlandclub.com/africa/ukc_itin.htm
Extractions: Assembly point in the England will be the port terminal in Portsmouth. It is from here that we will take the evening crossing to Cherbourg France, disembarking the next day in the morning. We have no fixed itinerary through France and Spain to Morocco the idea is to cover this distance in a week. We will however make a point of stopping at the Rock of Gibraltar for a day to purchase those last minute duty free items before crossing the Gibraltar Straits from Algeciras to Ceuta the Spanish enclave on mainland Africa. During these first few days we have the time to get to know each other.
California Newsreel | Taafe Fanga (Skirt Power) Ideas and Social Values of African peoples, edited by semihistorical human descendants,the indigenous, cave-dwelling Tellem; the dogon who invaded http://www.newsreel.org/films/taafefan.htm
Extractions: Director Adama Drabo has devised a gender-bending farce set among the 18th Century Dogon to make some serious points about the status of women in Africa today. This proleptic tale about a comic revolution in which women's and men's roles are reversed was, in part, inspired by the actual role women played in Mali's 1991 revolution. Drabo surprisingly found the germ for his domestic comedy from a program on Dogon mythology he heard over Malian radio. He then wrote a script which provides a stunning illustration of Marcel Griaule's observation that, "In the Dogon system of myth, social life must reflect the working of the universe, and conversely, the world order depends on the proper ordering of society." (Griaule, Marcel and Germaine Dieterlen 1954 "The Dogon", in African Worlds: Studies in the Cosmological Ideas and Social Values of African Peoples, edited by Daryll Forde, P. 83.) Therefore Taafe Fanga 's story of sexual politics in a Dogon village necessarily involves the interpenetration of cosmogeny, history and the still unfolding present. The Dogon believe that all difference in the universe began with the splitting of the primal fonio seed into an ever-expanding spiral of space-time which can only be held together by a careful balancing or "twinning" of opposing energies. In
Extractions: Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas Sotheby's Saturday, May 19, 2001, 10:15AM Sale 7659 By Carter B. Horsley This season Sotheby's has combined its Tribal Art, American Indian Art and Pre-Columbian Art auctions into one catalogue. The 87 lots of Oceanic Art start the auction at 10:15AM, Saturday, May 19, 2001, followed by 159 lots of the arts of Africa. The afternoon session, which starts at 2PM, will begin with 27 lots of American Indian Art, the smallest number in many seasons, followed by 148 lots of Pre-Columbian Art. While the sale recorded some good prices, only 75.66 percent of the 419 offered lots sold fora total of $6,767,745 including the buyer's premiums. Oceanic Art The Oceanic section of this auction has many fine works included a superb canoe prow, a fine canoe splash board, a wonderful dance paddle, an excellent gope board, a nice "pig killer," a fine ancestor plaque, and some good masks. Lot 38, canoe prow, 83 inches long, Geelvink Bay, Irian Jaya The canoe prow, shown, above, Lot 38, comes from the Geelvink Bay in Irian Jaya and measures 83 inches in length and has a conservative estimate of $60,000 to $90,000. It sold for $55, 375 including the buyer's premium as do all results mentioned in this article.
Traditional Storytelling-Contents The dogon Creation Story Chukwumu Azuonye. Womens Stories Among indigenous Peoplesof the Russian Far East Kira Van Deusen. Middle East and North africa. http://www.fitzroydearborn.com/Contents/StoryCnts.htm
Africans Art by native and nonnative peoples moved into the indigenous terminology used duringthe event related the The first ancestral blacksmith in dogon mythology (Mali http://www.webzinemaker.net/africans-art/index.php3?action=page&id_art=363
Learning From Architecture Reading Labelle Prussin, An Introduction to indigenous African Architecture tothe architecture of the dogon, Ashanti, Hausa, and Yoruba peoples. http://www.pitt.edu/~tokerism/0040/syl/learning.html
Extractions: LEARNING FROM ARCHITECTURE, II: WHAT ONLY HISTORY CAN DETERMINE Recommended Reading: Labelle Prussin, "An Introduction to Indigenous African Architecture," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 33 (1974):183-194, and 205; and Suzanne Preston Blier, "Houses are Human: Architectural Self-Images of Africa's Tamberma," JSAH 42 (1983): 371382. (Both on reserve). Other sources: Frank Willett, "African Architecture"in African Art, chap. 4, pp. 115-137; Julius Gl¸ck, "African Architecture," in Douglas Fras, ed., The many Faces of Primitive Art: A Critical Anthology, Englewood Cliffs NJ, 1966. Lecture abstract : This week's lecture and section meeting are devoted to issues of method and practice in architectural history. We look at "ordinary" architecture in Africa, both to learn about one of the world's oldest and richest architectural traditionsalmost the only one that still survives from the dawn of human historyand to apply the same methodology that will are using to understand the Frick Fine Arts Building. African architecture works on a traditional village scale, rather than following global architectural styles: the representative works chosen for today may lead us to some root concepts of African style. It is difficult to look at architecture in Africa and to hope to cover the entire continent: my personal experience has been with traditional architecture in East Africa, among the Geriyama, but the literature is massively slanted to West Africa, especially to the architecture of the Dogon, Ashanti, Hausa, and Yoruba peoples. This literature is indeed informative, but only regionally. Trying to use it to discuss all of Africa would be like using Taos Pueblo in New Mexico as representative of all American housing.
Who Are We? connection with many of the indigenous and tribal The Sirians Other tribal peopleswho's existence predates recorded history, like the dogon of africa http://members.tripod.com/channeling/et_s__star_knowledge__and_contact___m.htm
Extractions: Even after 8 years as a channel for them, and in Service to the Light with them, I am still learning more all the time, about who and what the Pleiadians exactly are. They came into my life, after 5 years of studying with other channeled teachers. (See My Journey Their presence in my life was totally unexpected, and has been dramatically empowering, deeply challenging, profoundly healing, and lots of fun! My Guides They have been My Guides, who come to me as an Energy, and Feeling, of Love and Support. Whenever I focus on them, they are there. I've never seen them, or met them, in the Physical or even in Dreams, that I can recall, except through their blending with my own consciousness during channelings.
African text on ancient Nubia, the Kushites, and the pervasive african and indigenousIndian influences on 20, peoples and Cultures of africa. 24, The dogon Village. http://www.ad.com/Society/Ethnicity/African/
Africa local Malian inhabitants in the dogon, a Bamana the warrior tradition of indigenousAfrica, the Jihad beliefs, and accomplishments of the peoples who inhabited http://northonline.sccd.ctc.edu/pwebpaz/Media/SubjAfrica.htm
Extractions: Introduces noted experts who explain the importance of reappraising African art within its own cultural context. Then local Malian inhabitants in the Dogon, a Bamana village, and the walled city of Djenne comment on the function of art and the role of the artist in their society. African Diary: Reflections of John H. Clarke
Extractions: INTERCULTURAL PHILOSOPHY AND ART(IFK) Review of U. Loelke's book by H. Kimmerle Kritische Traditionen: Afrika. Philosophie als Ort der Dekolonisation , by Ulrich Lölke. Frankfurt/M.: IKO Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, 2001, 250 pp., ISBN 3-88939-552-X The book of Lölke has served as a PhD-thesis at the University of Düsseldorf in 1999. It is a remarkable fact that his dissertation on African philosophy has been accepted at this university. For, it was Prof. Alwin Diemer who introduced this subject to the international philosophical discourse when he organized the 16 th World Congress of Philosophy at the University of Düsseldorf in 1978. At this congress he arranged for the first time a symposium on Philosophy in the present situation of Africa. Nine African philosophers participated in this symposium. Five years later he called together a much larger number of African philosophers to discuss the subject Africa and the problem of its identity. Since 1978 the World Congresses of Philosophy are an important forum for African philosophers.
African Art. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 is limited to the works of the peoples of W of the peoples sedentary lifestyles)in indigenous art The figures of the dogon tribe of central Mali stress the http://www.bartleby.com/65/af/Africana.html
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Review: Deconstructing "Matriarchal Myth" It has also been leveled at indigenous accounts of European conquest and Such traditionshave been recorded among Australian peoples, the dogon and Mende http://www.suppressedhistories.net/articles/eller3.html
Extractions: Deconstructing "Matriarchal Myth" The outlines of the book's critique will be familiar to any well-read person. Feminists have invented a "golden age," a utopian narrative fantasizing a time when women were free. Eller calls it "a universalizing story: once things were good, everywhere; now they are bad" an account based on dualistic thinking and "a reductive notion" of who women and men are. (Wait, which is the reductive idea: that women have always been subordinate and men dominant; or that other models have existed in human society, and that even patriarchal societies show a significant range in the degree of domination?) Eller scolds that theories for the cause of patriarchy "tend to find fault with men," who are described as awful and wicked. But elsewhere we are told that "narrators of the myth are generally reluctant to blame men..." It's enough to give you whiplash. The Myth seems to admonish that the issue of identity under oppression should not be engaged directly. To speak of groups with common history comes too close to "essentialism." On those terms, it's hard to see how to stop the dominant groups' ideologies from continuing to define reality. As Chris Brickell comments, "the term 'essentialism' has become something of an epithet," even a term of abuse. ["Radically Speaking! A Reply to Alison Jones,"
Department Of African-American Studies Courses such as the Yoruba and the dogon of Mali Various religions among African peoples inthe Diaspora times to the present, including indigenous African civilizations http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwaad/courses.htm
Extractions: Home Newsletter Programs Courses ... Site Map Note: The total semester hours of credit for each course are shown in parentheses immediately following the course title. (Taken from the Undergraduate Catalog, 2000-2001 , page 203.) AAS 1140 Introduction to African and African-American History and Culture. (3)
Extractions: Georgia State University The Department of African-American Studies was founded in 1994. African-American Studies offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of African people nationally and globally. It recognizes how issues and factors in addition to race affect the lives of African people worldwide. As an interdisciplinary field of concentration, it offers critiques of knowledge presented in traditional disciplines and professions, scholarly and artistic accounts of realities of the lives of African-American, and perspectives on social change. The Department of African-American Studies provides students with the intellectual origins, concepts, research, and models of disciplines, the knowledge and skills necessary for the study of group cultures, and a curriculum that contributes to the goals of multicultural education. Faculty and courses are drawn from the department itself and from other departments/schools/institutes in the university. Presently, the Department of African-American Studies offers the Bachelor of Arts degree and a minor in African-American Studies.
Research The dogon Village Provides links to resources for the pervasive african and indigenousIndian influences on peoples and Cultures of africa - Provides insight http://www.anthro.net/cgi-anthro/directory.cgi?dir=/Society/Ethnicity/African/
MUST READING IN AFRICAN foundations laid down by the Black peoples of africa but what it was an indigenousblack african with Ogotemmeli An Introduction to dogon Religious Ideas http://dimensionsnews.com/READINGS1.htm
Extractions: (Editor's note This is part one of a two part compilation of 200 books for serious readers and others in search of information from credible and credentialed historians, scholars and others addressing the black experience from various perspectives.) It is clear after some readings that the world rarely appreciated the magnitude of black peoples' contribution to history and literature. And in history and literature there is nothing more precious or sweeter than the treasures and secrets buried there. In black history one can find sweet joy mingling with the sadness of lost legacies, the horrors of a people who would become nameless, Negroes in America, in search of a past in an Africa that participated in enslaving its own. The idea of history is old, but in old things too are beautiful ideas, passionate and deep struggles reflected in our languages and cultures through which we tell our stories and the truths that knowledge portrays. Afrocentrists, Africanists, Eurocentrists, multiculturalists, integrationists, racists, purists, scholars and readers interested in the black experience will find here some books of intrinsic value, considered a must for your library and research to unearth suppressed truths of black history. Dr. Kwabena F. Ashanti, scholar, author, lecturer and psychologist at North Carolina State University assisted in compiling this advanced level reading list. "I always had an avid interest in history, and as I grew more socially aware, I became conscious of a deep void in the history of our people," Dr. Ashanti said. "For all practical purposes, it seemed barely to exist. I gradually began to understand that it had been so corrupted at the hands of those who have controlled the writing of history as to be hardly recognizable."
