Anthro.Net Africa Yoruba Gurus indigenous Production of Knowledge in the collective cutures and peoplesencompassed under the Virtual Institute of mambila Studies The Virtual http://home1.gte.net/ericjw1/africa.html
Africa South Of The Sahara - Culture And Society An annotated guide to internet resources on african culture and society.Category Regional africa Society and Culture Lwena/Luvale, Lunda and Related peoples of Angola rights and cultural autonomy ofindigenous people Has nl/~vabin Virtual Institute of mambila Studies The http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/culture.html
West Africa twostory architecture, Islam and indigenous African cultures web site for her coursePeoples and Cultures Country.html Virtual Institute of mambila Studies The http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/westaf.html
History Links Chetro Ketl Great Kiva; Ethnic Studies at USC; indigenous peoples; Inuit and MiddleEastNorth africa Internet Resource Guide Roberts; Middle Eastern Gophers. http://www.ala-net.com/cultures.html
Index Of Resources For History Ancient Egypt africa Ancient Egypt; Ancient Egypt Alexandria; Ancient Egypt ArchivesPortico; Archives Project Archives on indigenous peoples; Archives RADIO http://www.gzg.fn.bw.schule.de/faecher/links/ressourc.htm
Extractions: Eric Marzo of Regensburg and Lynn H. Nelson of Kansas. Please direct your notices of new URL's or inoperative links to whichever of the managers is more convenient to you, or to this site The following index consists of a single large file (approximately 185 Kb) offering over 1700 connections arranged alphabetically by subject and name. Given the large number of sites of interest to historians, this index does not pretend to be exhaustive although we attempt to include as many sites as come to our attention. For reasons of security, however, telnet connections are not included. Our general aim is to offer a sufficient number and variety of pointers to suggest the wealth of material available, to allow the user to build a personal bookmark file quickly and effectively, and to provide those building web sites a convenient source of pointers. last update: 17 July 1996 Africa: African Art Graphics Files Africa: African Diaspora Africa: African National Congress Gopher Africa: African Studies ... Ancient Near East: Oriental Institute, UChicago [FTP] Ancient Near East: Radar image of Ubar and region Ancient Near East Ancient Rome: Age, Gender and Status Divisions at Mealtime in the Roman
AusAnthrop: UNESCO Conference Empowerment indigenous Australian peoples utilising new technologies Museum to facilitateindigenous community access Computer Simulation of mambila Divination http://www.ausanthrop.net/research/UNESCO_abstracts.php
Extractions: [Author name], [Author's given name] 2001. [Title of paper]. In Abstracts of the International Symposium: New Technologies, Anthropology, Museology and Indigenous Knowledge . UNESCO/CNRS Conference held at UNESCO in Paris, 17-18 Mai 2001. WWW: http://www.ausanthrop.net/research/UNESCO_abstracts.php, accessed [date]. The abstracts are temporarily unavailable. Only the paper titles are listed here. You can download the full report from the UNESCO site at the link mentioned above. A CD-ROM containing the papers is in production and should be available sometime during 2002.
Linguistic recognizes the imminent loss of indigenous peoples' languages and archive of variousaspects of indigenous language and The Roots of mambila The mambila http://www.archaeolink.com/linguistic_anthropology_index.htm
Extractions: Linguistic Anthropology - Home Guest Essay in Linguistic Anthropology by Kimberly Moynahan Gerson ... In Search of the First Language "This transcript of a NOVA broadcast you will introduce you to the theory that there was once a single language for humanity. The transcript is long, but quite interesting. Even the commercials are included." - From NOVA Online - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2120glang.html African Languages at GU - Projects/Research About the African language projects at Göteborg University. - proposed and completed projects - From Goteborg University - http://www.african.gu.se/afrpro.html Alphabetic Origins of Western Civilization "Classical Greek culture differs from that of previous societies. Previous theorists have attributed this to the Greek alphabet (which differed from its precursor, the Semitic alphabet in containing vowel letters)." - From Dr. John R. Skoyles - http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/07/84/cog00000784-00/jsbs.htm Ancient Scripts of the World: Home After a lifelong study of ancient scripts, the author has assembled the accumulated knowledge here - illustrated -
Integrating Crops And Livestock In West Africa contain useful semiwild or indigenous trees; these long without contact with sedentarypeoples. Monod also Kanuri, Borgu, Waja, Kilka, Kaka and mambila. http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/004/X6543E/X6543E03.htm
Extractions: INTEGRATED CROP AND LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION The existing agricultural or farming systems in different ecological zones of West Africa are designed to produce subsistence food, cash sales and materials for local or industrial use. There is no generally accepted classification of farming systems in tropical Africa, but for convenience a classification which is based on intensity of cultivation and/or animal rearing is presented in Table 11. The various production systems are grouped under (i) traditional and transitional systems, and (ii) modern systems and their local adaptations. Traditional and Transitional Agricultural Systems In classical shifting cultivation, the homestead of the farmer is relocated near the cultivated fields after each cultivation phase. In practice the situation varies from where the farmer may never return to the same piece of land to situations where cultivation is repeated on the same plots. This cultivation system is ecologically viable in frontier situations where population density is low and fallow periods are long enough to restore soil fertility. Shifting cultivation in the classical sense has all but disappeared in West Africa and Morgan (1980) reported it to be restricted to parts of Ivory Coast and small areas between Nigeria and Cameroon (Figure 10). Nomadic herding is the extensive animal rearing counterpart of shifting cultivation in the savannah and more arid areas is discussed separately.
Untitled Conservation/MultiAgency Partnerships/indigenous Ecological Knowledge. Fulani relationswith the Samba and mambila peoples. so many pastoral peoples in East http://www.odi.org.uk/staff/r_blench.html
Extractions: E-mail r.blench@odi.org.uk Non-ODI webpage: http://www.cispal.fsnet.co.uk/Personal%20Website.htm Last updated: 15 May 2001 General Background Full Name: Roger Marsh Blench Date of Birth: 1st August, 1953 Academic Titles: M.A., Ph.D (University of Cambridge) Present Occupation: Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute From completing my doctoral thesis in 1984 until mid-1996 I was a self-employed consultant specialising in socio-economic aspects of pastoralism, the environment and rural development in Africa and Asia. I have worked with a variety of international agencies including the World Bank, FAO, IFAD, UNDP, ILCA, OXFAM and private consultancies. I have extensive experience of editing and preparing summaries and training materials as well as making presentations. I am presently a Research Fellow of the Rural Policy and Environment Group at the Overseas Development Institute. Current areas of interest include; a) Natural resource conflict b) Ethnoscience and the domestication of the wild in Sub-Saharan Africa c) Biodiversity policy d) Climatic issues (especially drought) in relation to policy
Afrol News: Masses Of Fulani Flee From Nigeria To Cameroon occupy 85 percent of the entire mambila land, Yieji The peoples however occupy themost fertile lands between socalled settlers and indigenous people, which http://www.afrol.com/News2002/nig008_bororo_cam.htm
Extractions: Misanet.com / IRIN / afrol News, 23 February - At least 23,000 Fulani herders have fled Nigeria's eastern Taraba State to Cameroon to escape clashes which broke out in the Mambila plateau with farming communities at the beginning of the year, a pastoral association said. The Miyetti Alla Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) said in a statement made available to IRIN on Friday, it had counted 23,647 nomads who fled the Sarduana local government area of Taraba State into Cameroon. Fulani herdsmen, M'bororo, are kin to the people establishing the Sokoto Caliphate in northern Nigeria and Cameroon in the 19th century. According to the statement signed by MACBAN secretary general, Tukur Abashe; "Attacks on Fulani pastoralists who produce 75 percent of the protein needs of the country are becoming incessant, particularly in states like Plateau, Nasarawa, Bauchi, Taraba and Benue states."
Cambanth Fulbe Relations with the mambila and Samba Page 1 Goody J. Decolonization in AfricaNational Politics and the Politics of indigenous peoples' Struggles Page 1 http://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/caindex.htm
Extractions: Contact the Editors through the socanth-cambanth@lists.cam.ac.uk e-mail address for information about subscriptions and individual articles. Vol 23, No 1 2002 Esther Goody The Roles of Knowledge and Policy in Contributions of Research on Education to Development: Observations on Social Anthropological Research for the 21 st century Page 1
Competitive Gift Exchange Among The Mambila Among the mambilaspeaking peoples of the former British with its own headman, anindigenous office. Dynamics of Multilineality on the mambila Plateau, africa http://www.era.anthropology.ac.uk/Era_Resources/Era/Rehfisch/Papers/gift.html
Extractions: FARNHAM REHFISCH Competitive Gift Exchange among the Mambila The importance of gift-giving in the establishment of political and social relationships in a number of societies has long been recognised by anthropologists, and the element of competition inherent in these exchanges has not been ignored. To the best of my knowledge, instances of diadic relationships characterised by competitive gift-exchange have not been recorded for any West African society. Among the Mambila-speaking peoples of the former British Cameroons, relationships of this type are of considerable social significance. The aim of this paper is to describe the way in which these are established, maintained and developed through time; to give an account of both a large and small scale gift distribution; and finally to analyse some of the sociological implications of this institution in Mambila society, with special reference to the village structure. The effect of this institution on inter-village relationships will not be dealt with here. The Mambila are skilled and enthusiastic farmers, fortunate in having an abundance of fertile land. none of the villages visited were suffering from a shortage of land. The result is that they normally produce a considerable surplus of their two staple crops, maize and guinea corn, except in the few bad years when the rains wither come very late or are otherwise inadequate. Some of their surplus grain is sold to the town-dwelling Fulani. The demand being small, most of the surplus is turned into beer for their own consumption. To avoid possible criticism, i had best add that I am well aware of the difficulty of defining surplus in non-monetary societies, however it is my impression backed by statements of many Mambila informants that they could sell a far greater proportion of their grain than is actually the case and run no risk of being left with insufficient supplies fort their own use.
Islam The mambila speaking peoples, numbering approximately 18,000 1 live on the mambilaplateau The majority of the mambila cling to their indigenous religion, a http://www.era.anthropology.ac.uk/Era_Resources/Era/Rehfisch/Papers/islam.html
Extractions: In this essay I shall discuss some of the reasons why so few of the Mambila speaking people have adopted the Muslim creed. Islam has spread very rapidly throughout many parts of West Africa as well as in other regions of the African continent in the past few decades, but has made but little progress among the Mambila. There are three types of factors that explain this. The first and most important stems from the relations existing between the pagans and their Muslim Neighbours, the Fulani. The second and third are on the one hand those stemming from the social and political structure of Mambila society itself and on the other ecological and economic factors. The Mambila speaking peoples, numbering approximately 18,000 Islam has made almost no converts in the villages investigated. The majority of the Mambila cling to their indigenous religion, a few having opted for Christianity. There are no reliable statistics for the region as a whole on this matter so I must confine myself to the two villages on which I found adequate information. In the one with a population of 605 persons there was one Mambila Muslim and in a neighbouring settlement with approximately 350 residents there were none. Christianity has attracted approximately thirty-five followers in the first and ten in the second village. The history of Fulani-Mambila relations is little known. In the literature are to be found mentions of frequent skirmishes between the two groups, for the most parts resulting from slave raids on the part of the Banyo Fulani into Mambila territory. As late as 1892, the Emir of Banyo was killed by the Mambila while on a slave raid.
Research Degrees intercultural communication in development; indigenous minorities; visual of tropicalforest peoples; SE Asia Zeitlyn Cameroon/Nigeria mambila; ritual and http://www.ukc.ac.uk/anthropology/courses/resdeg.html
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Anthropology - Postgraduate Study 2003 - University Of Kent management and development in indigenous Environmental Knowledge ecology of tropicalforest peoples; Southeast PhD) Cameroon/Nigeria - mambila; ritual and http://www.ukc.ac.uk/studying/postgrad/subjects/socsci/anthropology.html
Extractions: Postgraduate Study 2003 You are here: UKC home studying postgrad subjects ... socsci This programme is taught within the Department of Anthropology Research programmes Funding Staff research interests One of the outstanding features of anthropology at Kent is the use of computers. Over the last decade the Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing has been associated with many innovatory projects, particularly in the field of cognitive anthropology. The Centre publishes a monograph series, and provides an electronic information service to other departments in the UK and elsewhere, for example by hosting Anthropological Index Online and Experience Rich Anthropology. We encourage all students to use the Centre facilities (no previous experience or training is necessary). The Centre has its own Web site: http://lucy.kent.ac.uk
Index Of Resources For History ANCIENT EGYPT. 3D Mummy; ABZU REGIONAL INDEX EGYPT; A New Light On Ancient Art;africa Ancient Egypt; INDIA. Education and Research Network. indigenous peoples. http://www.lib.uni-miskolc.hu/lib/archive/kapcsolat/ukanIndex/original/ukanx.htm
Just For Fun... A New Light On Ancient Art; africa Ancient Egypt; Alexandria; American Ohio UniversityArchives; Portico British Library; Project Archives on indigenous peoples; http://www.next-step-recovery.org/ra5/fun.htm
Extractions: Just For Fun... I thought it would be fun to put a lot of info and links all on one page...so we don't have to surf all over the web to find a lot of this "stuff". This might be fun...let me know what you think. This is not pretty...a LOT is here...but not very nice...don't tell any of those rating services about this page because they will roll with laughter...every rule of "Webmanship" is broken...however...I am having fun, and I think it will be usefull to me through the winter. Perhaps I will change it in the spring...Jim Drush Word Phrase Hyper Fast To start there are a few of my links I like to have quickly at hand because I refer to them rather often...However...I use others... often.. also...Oh Well.. One other housekeeping reminder...There may be duplicates...links that won't work...out of date...I don't know...perhaps a surprise or a mistake here and there..perhaps something even offensive...you are on your own. It takes brave and functional people to venture into this maze...good luck...and HAVE FUN!!
Riikka Korpela's Categorized And Commented Nigeria Links mambila People Information and Links by Art and Life indigenous African Resource Managementof a Tropical Rain traditional religion of the Yoruba peoples there http://media.urova.fi/~rkorpela/niglink.html
VADA - Volkeren En Stammen Peoples Tribes M mambila Information article from Britannica.com Maravi cluster of nine Bantu-speakingpeoples living in the indigenous Nations of Canada and the US Mariposa http://www.vada.nl/volkenmm.htm
