Former British Southern Cameroons Journey Towards Complete Decolonization, Independence, and Sovereignty.

Former British Southern Cameroons Journey Towards Complete Decolonization, Independence, and Sovereignty.
Author: Martin Ayong Ayim
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 602
Release: 2008-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1434365212

Common Finno-Ugric spoken between 4000 B.C. to approximately 3000 B.C. in the watershed area)continental Devide) between the Volgas Bend and the Ural Mountains ()presently Russias) Around 1200 words could be reconstructed for this ancient language form by comparative phonology of about 20 languages (such as Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Lapp/Sami, Khanty, Mansi, Mordvin, etc.) still spokon altogether by about 24 million non/Slavic native speakers in oil-rich Eastern Europe and Western Siberia. Reconstrcted grammar, syntax asnd semantics of Commoin Finno-Ugric are also discussed. The book is a so-called "worksheet-edition". Lists, charts aare printed in it as they came out from the computer. This will facilitate subsequent research (especially manipulation of the data in computers). The narrative is kept in a simple form "cablespeak' style). The grabscripotion is uncomplicated. Diacritic marks were only occasionally used (only c; and c" appear). Easy to read and understand even by the general; reader. Targeted specialist of Linguistics, Language Origins Research (LOR), Language Universals, Cultural Anthropology, Human Prehistory , Comparative Religion Study find here a massive amount of new information unknown or little heeded in previous international research.

Religion, Feminism, and the Family

Religion, Feminism, and the Family
Author: Anne E. Carr
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664255121

Contemporary women's movement and the future of the American family.

Art, Performance and Ritual in Benin City

Art, Performance and Ritual in Benin City
Author: Gore Charles Gore
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019-07-30
Genre: Benin City (Nigeria)
ISBN: 1474468586

This book explores the roles of contemporary urban shrines and their visual traditions in Benin City. It focuses on the charismatic priests and priestesses who are possessed by a pantheon of deities, the communities of devotees, and the artists who make artifacts for their shrines. The visual arts are part of a wider configuration of practices that include song, dance, possession and healing. These practices provide the means for exploring the relationships of the visual to both the verbal and performance arts that feature at these shrines. The analysis in this book raises fundamental questions about how the art of Benin, and non-Western art histories more generally, are understood. The book throws critical light on the taken-for-granted assumptions which underpin current interpretations and presents an original and revisionist account of Benin art history.

African Civilizations

African Civilizations
Author: Graham Connah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2001-03-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521596909

This edition of African Civilizations, first published in 2001, re-examines the physical evidence for developing social complexity in tropical Africa.

Heritage and Identity

Heritage and Identity
Author: Marta Anico
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2008-11-26
Genre: Art
ISBN: 113405338X

Heritage and Identity explores the complex ways in which heritage actively contributes to the construction and representation of identities in contemporary societies, providing a comprehensive account of the diverse conceptions of heritage and identity across different continents and cultures. This collection of thought-provoking articles from experts in the field captures the richness and diversity of the interlinked themes of heritage and identity. Heritage is more than a simple legacy from the past, and incorporates all elements, past and present, that have the ability to represent particular identities in the public sphere. The editors introduce and discuss a wide range of interconnected topics, including multiculturalism and globalization, local and regional identity, urban heritage, difficult memories, conceptions of history, ethnic representations, repatriation, ownership, controversy, contestation, and ethics and social responsibility. The volume places empirical data within a theoretical and analytical framework and presents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the representation of the past, invaluable for anyone interested in heritage and museum studies.

Who Owns Africa?

Who Owns Africa?
Author: Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2022-11-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9462703434

The independence of African countries from their European colonizers in the late 1950s and 1960s marked a shift in the continent's political leadership. Nevertheless, the economies of African nations remained tied to those of their former colonies, raising questions of resource control and the sovereignty of these nation-states. Who Owns Africa? addresses the role of foreign actors in Africa and their competing interests in exploiting the resources of Africa and its people. An interdisciplinary team of scholars examines the concept of colonialism from a historical and socio-political perspective. They show how the language of investment, development aid, mutual interest, or philanthropy is used to cloak the virulent forms of exploitation on the continent, thereby perpetuating a state of neocolonialism that has left many African people poor and in the margins.

A Millennium of Cultural Contact

A Millennium of Cultural Contact
Author: Alistair Paterson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2016-06-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315435713

Alistair Paterson has written a comprehensive textbook detailing the millennium of cultural contact between European societies and those of the rest of the world. Beginning with the Norse intersection with indigenous peoples of Greenland, Paterson uses case studies and regional overviews to describe the various patterns by which European groups influenced, overcame, and were resisted by the populations of Africa, the Americas, East Asia, Oceania, and Australia. Based largely on the evidence of archaeology, he is able to detail the unique interactions at many specific points of contact and display the wide variations in exploration, conquest, colonization, avoidance, and resistance at various spots around the globe. Paterson’s broad, student-friendly treatment of the history and archaeology of the last millennium will be useful for courses in historical archaeology, world history, and social change.

Toyin Falola and African Epistemologies

Toyin Falola and African Epistemologies
Author: A. Bangura
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2015-02-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137492708

While there are five important festschriften on Toyin Falola and his work, this book fulfills the need for a single-authored volume that can be useful as a textbook. I develop clearly articulated rubrics and overarching concepts as the foundational basis for analyzing Falola's work.