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Aspects of Mende Life and Culture

Author : Joseph Tamba Kamanda
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (589 download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Mende Life and Culture written by Joseph Tamba Kamanda and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As human beings we express practically every aspect of our daily lives through our cultural beliefs. Such may be gender relations, kinship terminology, religion, economic transactions, politics, modes of education, conflict resolution, architecture, modes of production, culinary and dietary habits and many more. In short, culture is a people's way of life. One of the constants or characteristics cultural anthropologists point out to us is the tremendous variability of culture; cultural beliefs and practices vary from place to place even within the same country. An inevitable consequence of this variability is that culture can easily become a site for misunderstanding, miscommunication and misrepresentation. The cultural beliefs and practices of other people do not always make sense to us and vice versa. By way of illustration, let us take the example of the use of kinship terminology. Such terms are used with great precision in western cultures. A brother or sister in such cultures means just that. By contrast, one finds that among the Mende, kinship terms are far more elastic. People coming from the same town or region may consider themselves as 'brothers' and 'sisters.' It is a fairly common practice in Sierra Leone to hear people referring to someone as 'auntie' this or 'uncle' that where virtually no family ties exist. This can cause confusion in the minds of outsiders. My own lived experience of culture in and outside Sierra Leone, teaching Cultural Anthropology at the St Paul's Major Seminary, Regent, Freetown for a number of years has alerted me to this aspect of culture. Aspects of Mende Life and Culture is an attempt to deal with this issue. This work underscores the fact that Mende cultural beliefs and practices are informed by an underlying logic even when this may not always be apparent to both the insider and outsider. It is an invitation to figure out such logic before giving way to misunderstanding. Mende religion, names and naming, proverbs, notions of personhood all have their rational explanation. Hopefully the work makes a contribution to minimising the conflicts that arise in our country and in the world at large originating from cultural misunderstandings. Joseph Tamba Kamanda Department of Sociology and Social Work Fourah Bay College

Slave

Author : Mende Nazer
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786738979
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Slave written by Mende Nazer and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village, murdering the adults and rounding up thirty-one children, including Mende. Mende was sold to a wealthy Arab family who lived in Sudan's capital city, Khartoum. So began her dark years of enslavement. Her Arab owners called her "Yebit," or "black slave." She called them "master." She was subjected to appalling physical, sexual, and mental abuse. She slept in a shed and ate the family leftovers like a dog. She had no rights, no freedom, and no life of her own. Normally, Mende's story never would have come to light. But seven years after she was seized and sold into slavery, she was sent to work for another master-a diplomat working in the United Kingdom. In London, she managed to make contact with other Sudanese, who took pity on her. In September 2000, she made a dramatic break for freedom. Slave is a story almost beyond belief. It depicts the strength and dignity of the Nuba tribe. It recounts the savage way in which the Nuba and their ancient culture are being destroyed by a secret modern-day trade in slaves. Most of all, it is a remarkable testimony to one young woman's unbreakable spirit and tremendous courage.

A Long Way Gone

Author : Ishmael Beah
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374105235
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book A Long Way Gone written by Ishmael Beah and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-02-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life. “Why did you leave Sierra Leone?” “Because there is a war.” “You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?” “Yes, all the time.” “Cool.” I smile a little. “You should tell us about it sometime.” “Yes, sometime.” This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived. In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.

Radiance from the Waters

Author : Sylvia Ardyn Boone
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300048612
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Radiance from the Waters written by Sylvia Ardyn Boone and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sande Society of the Mende people of Sierra Leone is a secret female regulatory society that both guards and transmits the ideals of feminine beauty so fundamental to the aesthetic criteria in Mende culture. In this eloquent and moving book, Sylvia Ardyn Boone describes the Society, its rituals and organization, and the mask worn by its members. Her book is an evocative account of Mende life and philosophy as well as a unique contribution to the study of African art, one based on African conceptions about the person and the human body. This is a beautiful and beautifully written book. ... Boone writes in ways that reveal her evident devotion to Mende culture.--John Picton, African Affairs A major contribution to our ethnographic understanding of Mende culture, and to understanding the way concepts of women's bodies encode cultural messages about gender relations.--E. Frances White, Women's Review of Books A respectful approach to [the mysteries of the Sande], by an art historian who has tiptoed where anthropologists feared to tread. Radiance from the Waters deserves to be read. ... It provides something more interesting than esoteric knowledge: an extended meditation on notions of beauty and decorum and the way in which these can be translated simultaneously into art and ... advancement for women.--John Ryle, London Review of Books The first text to illuminate the power of the feminine aesthetic in West African art.--Ms.

Mende Of Sierra Leone Ils 65

Author : Kenneth Little
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135034699
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Mende Of Sierra Leone Ils 65 written by Kenneth Little and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social, political and economic impact of the decline of the old colonial powers in Africa, India and the Middle East are still key areas of scholarly research and debate. Based on careful social observation and empirical research, these titles explore the tension between agriculture and industry in developing economies, and trace the complex political process of independence. Aimed at administrators and academics, these studies are central to Development Studies, and also present the work of renowned anthropologists such as Raymond Firth.

Deep Mende

Author : Reeck
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004663207
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Deep Mende written by Reeck and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Long Arm of Papal Authority

Author : Gerhard Jaritz
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155053790
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book The Long Arm of Papal Authority written by Gerhard Jaritz and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contains selected papers from two conferences in 2003, at the University of Bergen (Norway) and at Central European University in Budapest. They deal comparatively with the communication of the Holy See with Northern Europe and Eastern Central Europe in the Late Middle Ages, both areas at the margins of Western Christendom. Special emphasis is placed on analysis of registers in the Apostolic Penitentiary.

The Rationale Divinorum Officiorum of William Durand of Mende

Author : Timothy M. Thibodeau
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231141815
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Rationale Divinorum Officiorum of William Durand of Mende written by Timothy M. Thibodeau and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rationale Divinorum Officiorum is arguably the most important medieval treatise on the symbolism of church architecture and rituals of worship. Written by the French bishop William Durand of Mende (1230-1296), the treatise ranks with the Bible as one of the most frequently copied and disseminated texts in all of medieval Christianity.This book marks the first English translation of the prologue and book one of the Rationale in almost two centuries. Timothy M. Thibodeau begins with a brief biography of William Durand and a discussion of the importance of the work during its time. Thibodeau compares previous translations of the Rationale in the medieval period and afterward. Then he presents his translation of the prologue and book one. The prologue discusses the principles of allegorical interpretation of the liturgy, while book one features detailed descriptions of the various parts of the church and its ecclesiastical ornaments. It also features extensive commentary on cemeteries, various rites of consecration and dedication, and a discussion of the sacraments.

Africa

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Proceedings of the Executive council and List of members, also section "Review of books".

Martin Buber

Author : Paul Mendes-Flohr
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300245238
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Martin Buber written by Paul Mendes-Flohr and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Martin Buber An authority on the twentieth-century philosopher Martin Buber (1878–1965), Paul Mendes-Flohr offers the first major biography in English in thirty years of this seminal modern Jewish thinker. The book is organized around several key moments, such as his sudden abandonment by his mother when he was a child of three, a foundational trauma that, Mendes-Flohr shows, left an enduring mark on Buber’s inner life, attuning him to the fragility of human relations and the need to nurture them with what he would call a “dialogical attentiveness.” Buber’s philosophical and theological writings, most famously I and Thou, made significant contributions to religious and Jewish thought, philosophical anthropology, biblical studies, political theory, and Zionism. In this accessible new biography, Mendes-Flohr situates Buber’s life and legacy in the intellectual and cultural life of German Jewry as well as in the broader European intellectual life of the first half of the twentieth century.

Introduction to Sierra Leone

Author : Gilad James, PhD
Publisher : Gilad James Mystery School
ISBN 13 : 1671317998
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Sierra Leone written by Gilad James, PhD and published by Gilad James Mystery School. This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sierra Leone is a country located in West Africa, bordered to the north and northeast by Guinea, to the southeast by Liberia, and to the west and southwest by the Atlantic Ocean. The country has a tropical climate characterized by two seasons: the dry season from November to April, and the wet season from May to October. The official language is English, although Krio, a Creole language, is widely spoken. Sierra Leone has a diverse population made up of Temne, Mende, Limba, and Krio peoples, among others. Sierra Leone gained independence from Britain in 1961 and experienced a period of political instability and civil war, which lasted from 1991 to 2002. The civil war was fought between government forces and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), a rebel group that aimed to overthrow the government. The conflict was characterized by violent attacks on civilians, including chopping off limbs, sexual violence, and the use of child soldiers. Since the end of the war, Sierra Leone has made progress in democratization and economic development, although it still faces challenges such as poverty, corruption, and high youth unemployment rates.

The Underneath of Things

Author : Mariane C. Ferme
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520225430
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Underneath of Things written by Mariane C. Ferme and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-09-14 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Researched with unusual sensitivity, original in approach, illuminating beyond its immediate geographical and theoretical referents, and written in a style that is both carefully crafted and eminently accessible...this is the work of a remarkably talented observer and scholar."—Jane Guyer, editor of Money Matters: Instability, Values and Social Payments in the Modern History of West African Communities, former president of the African Studies Association "The world is currently quite aware of Sierra Leone and its predicament, and it needs this well-informed and beautifully written account of what makes the country so wonderful despite its woes. Ferme's work is truly transcendent, capturing magnificently well some of the most important aspects of an otherwise "difficult" ethnographic case. It is a truthful and honest piece of work, based on a deep grasp of the ethnographer's craft. "—Paul Richards, author of Fighting for the Rain Forest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone Ferme is a true master in the magic of "things." She gives the study of secrecy new impetus by examining its history, relating that history not only to discourse but also to material conditions. She brilliantly shows how, for Sierra Leone societies, the celebration of ambiguity has been a way to live with permanent danger-from the long history of slavery through the present civil war. —Peter Geschiere, author of The Modernity of Witchcraft, Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa The Underneath of Things is a model of patience, detailed observation, and elegant writing: a theoretically creative study that is keen to track and to disentangle the webs and flows of everyday life.—Achille Mbembe, author of On the Postcolony

The Church-as-family and Ethnocentrism in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Gerald K. Tanye
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643107978
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Church-as-family and Ethnocentrism in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Gerald K. Tanye and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnocentrism is one of the greatest obstacles to peace on the African continent. Taking the Church as Family of God as a model of evangelization, this work explores means of inculturating the Gospel message in African cultures in order to transform them, make them blossom and enable Africans to live as authentic Christians in their cultures. It examines the values of African extended families and the prospects of interreligious dialogue as means through which the various religious bodies can effectively work together to overcome ethnocentrism and its evil effects and thus establish a wholesome African society where every human person is at home irrespective of family orientation or tribal background.

The Long Journey of Gracia Mendes

Author : Marianna D. Birnbaum
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9639241679
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book The Long Journey of Gracia Mendes written by Marianna D. Birnbaum and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After her arrival in 1553, she became the most prominent businesswoman of the community and a patron of Jewish causes. Her life exemplifies the perseverance of the Jewish culture to survive and triumph even in extremely adverse conditions."--BOOK JACKET.

Sierra Leone Studies

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Sierra Leone Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Other Cultures, Elder Years

Author : Ellen Rhoads Holmes
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452264988
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Other Cultures, Elder Years written by Ellen Rhoads Holmes and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1995-05-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holmes and Holmes have revised their 1983 book, and it remains a good supplement for an undergraduate gerontology course or anthropology course. It is written at a readable level, each chapter has a clear summary. . . . It provides an excellent summary of secondary sources, avoiding extensive review of primary research, complicated theory, and methodological issues. --Clinical Gerontologist Hailed as "extremely well organized, balanced, and impartial" in its first edition by The Gerontologist, Other Cultures, Elder Years is once again available in a fully revamped second edition. This new edition provides a comprehensive, comparative viewpoint on our knowledge about worldwide patterns of aging. It addresses everything from demographic patterns to family relations, from perceptions of the life cycle to the impact of modernization on the aged. Replete with summaries of crucial studies from various parts of the world, Other Cultures, Elder Years also offers three extended case descriptions of Inuit, Samoan, and white American aged as well as an examination of aging patterns among major American ethnic groups. Among the other subjects the text addresses are cultural perspectives in health care, the future of aging in America, and creativity and the life cycle. Other Cultures, Elder Years is the key text available for use by anyone teaching courses on aging and culture. "I found the current [book] a significant improvement over the first edition. . . . It remains to be the only usable text in the anthropology of aging available. I see the audiences for the book as instructors for the following courses: Anthropology of Aging, Sociology of Aging, and general social gerontology courses. I have used this book in past Anthropology of Aging courses and would do so again." --Jay Sokolovsky, University of Maryland, Baltimore County "This book does a truly artful job of organizing and presenting the complex diversity of human experience related to aging and cultural influence. . . . This book offers an implicit biocultural laboratory to the reader: the biologic universal of human aging is shaped by the prism of cultural influence. The reader is guided through the evolutionary history of aging among anthropoid primates, to hominids, to Homo sapiens sapiens, who are then examined from cultural perspectives found around the globe. The effect is one of inquiry, search, synthesis, and, ultimately, a confrontation with our inner selves as we negotiate the inexorable march toward our ultimate destiny." --J. Neil Henderson, Suncoast Gerontology Center, University of South Florida

The SAGE Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America

Author : Mwalimu J. Shujaa
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506331696
Total Pages : 1830 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America written by Mwalimu J. Shujaa and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 1830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America provides an accessible ready reference on the retention and continuity of African culture within the United States. Our conceptual framework holds, first, that culture is a form of self-knowledge and knowledge about self in the world as transmitted from one person to another. Second, that African people continuously create their own cultural history as they move through time and space. Third, that African descended people living outside of Africa are also contributors to and participate in the creation of African cultural history. Entries focus on illuminating Africanisms (cultural retentions traceable to an African origin) and cultural continuities (ongoing practices and processes through which African culture continues to be created and formed). Thus, the focus is more culturally specific and less concerned with the broader transatlantic demographic, political and geographic issues that are the focus of similar recent reference works. We also focus less on biographies of individuals and political and economic ties and more on processes and manifestations of African cultural heritage and continuity. FEATURES: A two-volume A-to-Z work, available in a choice of print or electronic formats 350 signed entries, each concluding with Cross-references and Further Readings 150 figures and photos Front matter consisting of an Introduction and a Reader’s Guide organizing entries thematically to more easily guide users to related entries Signed articles concluding with cross-references