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The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe, and Power in the Heart of Africa

Book by Bill Berkeley; Perseus Books, 2001

Collections: History, Entire Library

Since 1983 journalist Bill Berkeley has traveled through Africa's most troubled lands -- Rwanda, Liberia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, and Zaire -- seeking out the tyrants and military leaders who orchestrate seemingly intractable wars. Shattering the myth that ancient tribal hatred lies at the ...
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Since 1983 journalist Bill Berkeley has traveled through Africa's most troubled lands -- Rwanda, Liberia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, and Zaire -- seeking out the tyrants and military leaders who orchestrate seemingly intractable wars. Shattering the myth that ancient tribal hatred lies at the heart of the continent's troubles, Berkeley instead holds accountable the "Big Men" who came to power during this period, describing the very rational methods behind their apparent madness.
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Nomads of South-Persia: The Basseri Tribe of the Khamseh Confederacy

Book by Fredrik Barth; Little, Brown & Company, 1961

Subjects:

Baseri Tribe

Collections: History, Entire Library

...officers of the tribe, and with villagers...temporarily absent, is a woman ever regarded as...while a Basseri woman who marries outside the tribe transmits no rights...the person of a woman. Needles to say...outside camp, within tribe 15 34...
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Bedouin Poets of the Dawasir Tribe: Between Nomadism and Settlement in Southern Najd - Vol. 3

Book by P. Marcel Kurpershoek; Brill, 1999

Subjects:

Arabic Poetry--20th Century, Arabic Poetry--20th Century--Translations Into English, Dawasir (Arab Tribe)--Folklore, Dawasir (Arab Tribe)--Poetry, Dialect Poetry, Arabic--Saudi Arabia--Najd, Dialect Poetry, Arabic--Saudi Arabia--Najd--History And Criticism, Dialect Poetry, Arabic--Saudi Arabia--Najd--Translations Into English, Oral Tradition--Saudi Arabia--Najd

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...ARABIA III BEDOLTN POETS OF THE DAWASIR TRIBE I, STUDIES IN ARABIC LITERATURE SUPPLEMENTS...Vol. III Bedouin Poets of the Dawasir Tribe P. MARCEL KURPERSHOEK ORAL POETRY AND...III BEDOUIN POETS OF THE DAWASIR TRIBE Between Nomadism and Settlement in Southern...
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Imagining Africa: Landscape in H. Rider Haggard's African Romances

Book by Lindy Stiebel; Greenwood Press, 2001

Subjects:

Africa--In Literature, English Literature--African Influences, Haggard, H. Rider--(Henry Rider)--1856-1925--Knowledge--Africa, Landscape In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...awareness of the gendering of Africa as woman, and the colonial subject and...Haggards map is a bodyscape of Africa as woman (as I shall later discuss), the...particularly inflamed description of Africa-as-woman in Winwood Reades Savage Africa...
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Africa in the United Nations System

Book by Wellington W. Nyangoni; Associated University Presses, 1985

Subjects:

Africa--Foreign Relations--1960-, Africa--Politics And Government--1960-, Organization Of African Unity, United Nations--Africa

Collections: History, Entire Library

...accede: 1. To self-governement now, through the establishment of a democratic African Government based on the principle of one man, one vote, irrespective of tribe, race, religion, education, sex, property, or colour; 2. To gain independence...

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The Institution of Woman-Marriage in Africa: A Cross-Cultural Analysis

Journal article by Beth Greene; Ethnology, Vol. 37, 1998

Subjects:

Africa--Social aspects, Igbo (African people)--Social aspects, Same-sex marriage--Africa, Women--Africa

Collections: Entire Library

...Authority in a Nigerian Tribe: A Study in Indirect...Options: Three East Africa Case Studies. Africa...Female Husband a Man? Woman/Woman Marriage among the...Nigeria. Women in Africa: Studies in Social...System of the Bemba Tribe-Northeastern Rhodesia...
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Shakespeare in Africa

Journal article by Lemuel A. Johnson; Research in African Literatures, Vol. 27, 1996

Subjects:

Africa--History, African Fiction--History And Criticism, African Literature--History And Criticism, African Poetry--History And Criticism, Postcolonialism--Africa

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...field trip to that African tribe, and I thought myself...in The European Tribe , the 1987 "travellers...then, "but a white woman can do this for me...well-understood, and that South African novelist J. M. Coetzee...1980): "There is no woman living along the...
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`Caste' in Africa: The Evidence from South-Western Ethiopia Reconsidered

Journal article by Alula Pankhurst; Africa, Vol. 69, 1999

Subjects:

Caste--Ethiopia, Culture conflict--Africa, Ethiopia--Social aspects, Marginality, Social--Research, Social classes--Ethiopia

Collections: Entire Library

...Addis Ababa University. --1999. `Tabita Hatuti: biography of a woman potter, in Raymond Silverman (ed.), Ethiopia: traditions of...and Plotnicov, Leonard (eds). 1970. Social Stratification in Africa. New York and London: Free Press and Collier-Macmillan. Vaughan...
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The Impact of Labor Migration on African Families in South Africa: Yesterday and Today

Journal article by Ria Smit; Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 32, 2001

Subjects:

Blacks--South Africa, Family--Social aspects, Migrant labor--South Africa, South Africa--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...where two or more mother-child/ren family units form larger woman-headed households. Jackson, a migrant laborer in his early forties...impact on the division of power in the marital relationship. African families in South Africa, being traditionally patriarchal of...
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Culture, Cultivation, and Colonialism in Out of Africa and Beyond

Journal article by Simon Lewis; Research in African Literatures, Vol. 31, 2000

Subjects:

Africa--History, African Fiction--History And Criticism, African Literature--History And Criticism, African Poetry--History And Criticism, Postcolonialism--Africa

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...extratemporal, as well as extrasocial African feudal order, remaining silent...religious, and economic life of the tribe" (22). Blixens presence was...debunking of the white liberal woman in his story "Mrs. Plum," which...Plum. She loved dogs and Africans and said that everyone must...

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An American in Africa

Magazine article by Keith B. Richburg; The American Enterprise, Vol. 8, July 1997

Subjects:

Africa--Politics and government

Collections: Entire Library

...feature of almost every African society. Even in...could transcend the tribe. In Kenya, the Kikuyu...machetes and spears. One woman named Loyce Majiru...whom the very term "tribe" is anathema. The...racially laden. But Africans themselves talk of...massacre. One is a woman named Rose Kayumba...
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A Reporter's Notebook; Facing South Africa

Magazine article by Andrew Kopkind; The Nation, Vol. 243, November 22, 1986

Subjects:

Apartheid--Analysis, Race relations--South Africa, Right and left (Political science)--South Africa, South Africa, South African foreign relations--United States, United States, United States foreign relations--South Africa

Collections: Entire Library

...apartheid was hindering South Africas full entrance into the First...Afrikaans-speaking majority. (The "white tribe" is split roughly in the ratio...would be majority rule in South Africa, but "many generations after...around the corner," the white woman who heads the Cape Town local...
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China, Africa, Russia, India

Magazine article by Pw; Whole Earth, Spring 1999

Subjects:

Africa--Forecasts, China--Forecasts, Developing countries--Forecasts, Forecasting--Study and teaching, Hollantai, Vladimir--Addresses, essays, lectures, India--Forecasts, Russia--Forecasts, Sen, Somnath--Addresses, essays, lectures, Toi, Joan du--Addresses, essays, lectures, Wenhu, Qi--Addresses, essays, lectures

Collections: Entire Library

...years * total fertility: 5.3 children/woman * infant mortality rate: 86/1,000 live...Sustainable Development) dont seem relevant to Africa. In contrast, African scenario exercises...of no hope" for Africa. Each traditional tribe had practices and beliefs and deep knowledge...
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The Old South Africa Is Stone Cold Dead, Kaput

Magazine article by Darcus Howe; New Statesman, Vol. 130, August 6, 2001

Subjects:

Film festivals--South Africa, Motion picture industry--South Africa

Collections: Entire Library

...closely. Right here in the lobby of my hotel, a white woman and an African man were chatting cheerfully -- almost like children...new identity has yet taken root; all is fluid. White Tribe fits the bill, holds up a mirror, for the most part...
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Why Africa Can't Catch a Break: Malaria, Ebola, and Gen. Butt Naked

Magazine article by Joshua Hammer; Washington Monthly, Vol. 36, April 2004

Subjects:

A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...the continent. (He would later marry a woman from the Cote dIvoire.) He writes with...time, however, he is too willing to let Africans themselves off the hook. The ruinous depredations...owe their primary allegiance to clan or tribe. French faults the United States for...

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One Tribe Fired My Imagination as a Boy. It Took Me 25 Years to Find Them. Their Fate? Engulfed by Catastrophe, Abandoned by the World, and Facing a Slow Death That Will Diminish Us All Fergal Keane's Compelling Dispatch from the People on a Long March to Extinction; THE LAKE - A LAST HOPE Because of the Drought, Growing Numbers of Turkana Are Turning to Lake Turkana for Survival. .....

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 12, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...a warrior of the tribe. These were the elders...generosity of an Africa I have known and...than 25 years. A woman emerged from the...of travelling in Africa to finally get there...crowd - every man, woman and child in the...abandoned if the tribe needs to move on...
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Secrets of the LOST TRIBE; This Picture of Remote Island Tribesmen Attacking an Intruding Helicopter with Bows and Arrows Amazed the World. So Who Are These People, Untouched by Thousands of Years of 'Civilisation'? One of the Few Academics Ever to Have Been to the Island and Studied Them Tells Their Fascinating Story ..

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), February 13, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...outsiders have got close to this tribe - who are the only surviving...ago that modern humans left Africa, making their way along the...captured an old man, an old woman and four children. The adults...lived for a time with another tribe, the Onge of Little Andaman...
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Tribe Helper Liz Hopes for Prestigious Accolade; PROFILE

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), May 18, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Tribe Helper Liz Hopes for Prestigious Accolade; PROFILE...categories including entrepreneurial, humanitarian, and business woman of the year. She is currently finishing a doctorate in...The charity is also active in the Arctic, India and South Africa. Liz was inspired to help after encountering women while...
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The Latest Hill Tribe? Tory Toffs; CITY LIVES

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 30, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

The Latest Hill Tribe? Tory Toffs; CITY LIVES. Byline: JOHANN...talk about "when they forced us out of Africa", it feels like a museum, a place preserved...the carriage, and I locked eyes with a woman at the opposite end with that glare that...
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Is This the Final Sundown for the Bushmen of the Kalahari? THE MAIL TRAVELS TO ONE OF THE EARTH'S MOST INHOSPITABLE SPOTS TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH ABOUT A STONE AGE TRIBE THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 11, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...ABOUT A STONE AGE TRIBE THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION...largest game reserve in Africa and the most remote...who married a Khwe woman. The day we left...think - and for an African night it is strangely...her left. Another woman wears paper clips...they only beat when woman is proceeding with...

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Name

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...there were fewer than 20; the gens or tribe name ( nomen ); and finally the family...be added as a nickname or honor, e.g., Africanus, for victory in Africa, in the case of...to the person. In the Western world a woman traditionally adopted the family name...

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