Download or read book Biological Relationships Between Africa and South America written by Peter Goldblatt and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Africa in Latin America written by Manuel Moreno Fraginals and published by Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black in Latin America written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous journey, only about 450,000 of them arrived in the United States. The rest-over ten and a half million-were taken to the Caribbean and Latin America. This astonishing fact changes our entire picture of the history of slavery in the Western hemisphere, and of its lasting cultural impact. These millions of Africans created new and vibrant cultures, magnificently compelling syntheses of various African, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish influences. Despite their great numbers, the cultural and social worlds that they created remain largely unknown to most Americans, except for certain popular, cross-over musical forms. So Henry Louis Gates, Jr. set out on a quest to discover how Latin Americans of African descent live now, and how the countries of their acknowledge-or deny-their African past; how the fact of race and African ancestry play themselves out in the multicultural worlds of the Caribbean and Latin America. Starting with the slave experience and extending to the present, Gates unveils the history of the African presence in six Latin American countries-Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, and Peru-through art, music, cuisine, dance, politics, and religion, but also the very palpable presence of anti-black racism that has sometimes sought to keep the black cultural presence from view.
Download or read book A Global Monthly Sea Surface Temperature Climatology written by Dennis Joseph Shea and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reconfiguration of the Global South written by Eckart Woertz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980s there has been a steady shift from West to East in the international system, economically, politically and culturally. Emerging markets in Asia have moved up the value chain of industrial production processes, while the share of Western industrialized countries in global gross domestic product has declined. Countries such as China and India are asserting themselves in security matters and seeking new avenues for investment flows and development co-operation. China’s expected shift from export-led growth to domestic consumption might further change patterns of trade and capital flows, and it is an open debate whether the growth dynamics of India might outstrip those of China. While the rise of China and other Asian powers has been studied extensively, much less work has been done on how Africa and Latin America position themselves in this process. What will the role be of Africa and Latin America in the ‘Asian Century’ and associated reconfigurations of global value chains? Will these regions be able to assert themselves and find a voice of their own? Will they manage to develop industries of their own and diversify trade relations? Will they launch new ways of regional south-south co-operation? What is the role of migrant communities and cultural exchange? Do Western and Asian approaches to these regions differ (Washington vs. Beijing consensus)? This book brings together renowned academics from Africa, Latin America, Europe and the USA, who bring refreshing perspectives on an under-researched topic, ranging from a conceptualization of the issue within new theoretical approaches, to unique case studies based on field work.
Download or read book Tropical Forest Ecosystems in Africa and South America written by Betty Jane Meggers and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postdrifting mesozoic. Africa, the "Odd man out". Floristic relationships between tropical Africa and tropical America. Angiosperm evolution and the relationship of the floras of Africa and America. Palms in the tropical forest ecosystems of Africa and South America. Problems related to the transoceanic transport of insects, especially between the Amazon and Congo Areas. Limnology of the Congo and Amazon Rivers. Ecology of fishes in the Amazon and Congo Basis. Birds of the Congo and Amazon Forests: a comparison. Some problems of cultural adaptation in Amazonia, with emphasis on the Pre-European Period. Recent human activities in the Brazilian Amazon Region and their ecological effects. Temperature zone influence on tropical forest land use: a plea for sanity.
Download or read book WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY PRODUCT ID 23958336 written by CAITLIN. FINLAYSON and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confronting Historical Paradigms written by Frederick Cooper and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together broadly synthetic essays of interpretation that illuminate both the rethinking of history and paradigm that has taken place within the fields of African and Latin American history and the resonances between these fields. Three of the essay have previously been published in scholarly journals; three essays and a postscript were written expressly for this volume. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Africa and South America written by Andrew Omisakin and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical and cultural links between Africa and South America are believed to be earlier in history than the Atlantic slave trade that ended in the 1800s. According to Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, British paleoanthropologist and archaeologist (1903-1972), "Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America". "Africa and South America: Are they descendants of the Atlanteans?" is an anthology book that looks at the connection between the peoples of Africa and South America with the prehistoric Atlanteans. This book also discusses how the general problems of the two continents are tied to the Atlanteans. If Africans and South Americans are descendants of the first race of the prehistoric Atlanteans, then there is some sense in the condition of the race today which could be likened to an old man who has seen better days but who is unable to cope with the trend of modern living and therefore in need of help in his period of "second childishness".According to theosophists' teachings, the black race is the relics of early settlements of human beings. The black people are the remnants of the Atlanteans. The Atlanteans came from the lost city of Atlantis. The black people were the first of the seven sub-races of the Atlantean root race called the Rmoahals. The Rmoahal race of Atlantis is the same as the Orunmila race of Yorubaland in West Africa. Ile-Ife is located around Longitude 7°N and Latitude 5°W; as shown in Ignatius L. Donnelly's map of the Atlantean Empire (Credit: Ignatius L. Donnelly's "Atlantis: The Antediluvian World", 1882).I felt the need to compile this anthology book after reading the story of the fish baby of Atlantis that appears in the September 1990 issue of the Sunday Tribune newspaper at Ibadan, Nigeria of a "strange scaly fish baby" captured by Russian scientists 12,000 feet below the sea in Cuban waters. The scaly creature claims that it is from the lost city of Atlantis. The creature's story was that "Several million years ago, the continent of Atlantis was a landmass that stretched between Africa and South America" but it gradually sank into the sea and its inhabitants evolved gills and scales to live underwater. This subject is dealt with in chapter 5 which shows a photo of the captured scaly creature from the lost city of Atlantis.The most significant legacy which Atlanteans pass on to Africans and South Americans is the science of IFA. It is worth noting that Ifa is practised throughout the Americans, West Africa, and the Canary Islands, in the form of a complex religious system, and it has played a critical role in the traditions of Santeria (Cuba), Candomblé (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Venezuela, United States, and Portugal), Palo (Cuba), Umbanda (Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, United States, and Portugal), Vodou (Haiti), and other Afro-American faiths, as well as in some traditional African religions. Ifa is of the same significance to Africans and South Americans as the Kabbalah is to the Jews.This book concludes that it would be good enough if Africa and South America could compare the challenging problems facing their governments and/or continents to incompetent management in private/public/state-owned companies. A company's failure was due to bad management. It follows that a good manager who can manage the affairs should be a top priority for getting the job. It does not matter if such a great manager is a local person or an expatriate.
Download or read book Past Climate Variability in South America and Surrounding Regions written by Francoise Vimeux and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South America is a unique place where a number of past climate archives are ava- able from tropical to high latitude regions. It thus offers a unique opportunity to explore past climate variability along a latitudinal transect from the Equator to Polar regions and to study climate teleconnections. Most climate records from tropical and subtropical South America for the past 20,000 years have been interpreted as local responses to shift in the mean position and intensity of the InterTropical Conv- gence Zone due to tropical and extratropical forcings or to changes in the South American Summer Monsoon. Further South, the role of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds on global climate has been highly investigated with both paleodata and coupled climate models. However the regional response over South America during the last 20,000 years is much more variable from place to place than pre- ously thought. The factors that govern the spatial patterns of variability on millennial scale resolution are still to be understood. The question of past natural rates and ranges of climate conditions over South America is therefore of special relevance in this context since today millions of people live under climates where any changes in monsoon rainfall can lead to catastrophic consequences.
Download or read book Theory from the South written by Jean Comaroff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As nation-states in the Northern Hemisphere experience economic crisis, political corruption and racial tension, it seems as though they might be 'evolving' into the kind of societies normally associated with the 'Global South'. Anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff draw on their long experience of living in Africa to address a range of familiar themes - democracy, national borders, labour and capital and multiculturalism. They consider how we might understand these issues by using theory developed in the Global South. Challenging our ideas about 'developed' and 'developing' nations, Theory from the South provides new insights into key problems of our time.
Download or read book West Gondwana written by Robert J. Pankhurst and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2008 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Challenging the State written by Merilee S. Grindle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1980s and 1990s posed great challenges to governments in Latin America and Africa. Deep economic crises and significantly heightened pressure for political reform severely taxed their capacity to manage economic and political tasks. These crises pointed to an intense need to reform the state and redefine its relationship to the market and civic society. This book examines the paradox of states that have been weakened by crisis just as their capacity to encourage economic development and provide for effective governance most needs to be strengthened. Case studies of Mexico and Kenya allow the author to analyse the opportunities available for political leadership in moments of crisis, and the constraints on action provided by leadership goals and existing political and economic structures. She argues that while leaders and political structures are often part of the problem, they can also be part of the solution in building more efficient, effective, and responsive states.
Download or read book Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia Africa and Latin America written by Ian Gough and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-26 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a team of internationally respected experts, this book explores the conditions under which social policy, defined as the public pursuit of secure welfare, operates in the poorer regions of the world. Social policy in advanced capitalist countries operates through state intervention to compensate for the inadequate welfare outcomes of the labour market. Such welfare regimes cannot easily be reproduced in poorer regions of the world where states suffer problems of governance and labour markets are imperfect and partial. Other welfare regimes therefore prevail involving non-state actors such as landlords, moneylenders and patrons. This book seeks to develop a conceptual framework for understanding different types of welfare regime in a range of countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa and makes an important contribution to the literature by breaking away from the traditional focus on Europe and North America.
Download or read book Modern Art in Africa Asia and Latin America written by Elaine O'Brien and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shedding fresh light on modern art beyond the West, this text introduces readers to artists, art movements, debates and theoretical positions of the modern era that continue to shape contemporary art worldwide. Area histories of modern art are repositioned and interconnected towards a global art historiography. Provides a much-needed corrective to the Eurocentric historiography of modern art, offering a more worldly and expanded view than any existing modern art survey Brings together a selection of major essays and historical documents from a wide range of sources Section introductions, critical essays, and documents provide the relevant contextual and historiographical material, link the selections together, and guide the reader through the key theoretical positions and debates Offers a useful tool for students and scholars with little or no prior knowledge of non-Western modernisms Includes many contrasting voices in its documents and essays, encouraging reader response and lively classroom discussion Includes a selection of major essays and historical documents addressing not only painting and sculpture but photography, film and architecture as well.
Download or read book Literatures of Asia Africa and Latin America written by Willis Barnstone and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 2060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary anthology gathers together a tremendously broad selection of representative, authoritative writings -- spanning antiquity to the present -- from the most ancient non-Western civilizations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It combines extensive introductions, headnotes, and bibliographies with excellent contemporary translations of the best contemporary and classical writers. The selections reflect literary, religious, and philosophical traditions and reveal--despite cultural differences--the universality of life experiences.
Download or read book The Global Coffee Economy in Africa Asia and Latin America 1500 1989 written by W. G. Clarence-Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text
