Ta:rikh Mandinka de Bijini (Guinée-Bissau)

Giesing, Cornelia; Vydrine, Valentin

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“…The 'Ta:rikh Mandinka' from Guinea-Bissau either uses a character based on a combination of nūn and yāʾ, or simply a nūn, thus not graphically differentiating between n and ɲ. 109 Alfâ Ibrâhîm Sow mentions that the oldest Futa Jalon manuscripts render ɲ, as well as c, j, and several other characters by ‫ج‬ jīm, j; 110 the same is true of the famous qaṣīda from Futa Toro. 111 The Futa Toro chronicler (or his copyists) used both jīm and yāʾ, surmounted by three dots, to render ɲ; moreover, the former character additionally served to represent several other non-Arabic sounds.…”

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“…The 'Ta:rikh Mandinka' manuscripts from Guinea-Bissau are said to use the same character for c and ɲ. 125 Older Fulfulde manuscripts ambiguously use jīm to represent this as well as j, ɲ, and several other sounds. Futa Toro manuscripts may in addition use ‫ﺵ‬ shīn, sh -perhaps the regular practice in some Adamawa manuscripts.…”

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Bamana Texts in Arabic Characters: Some Leaves from Mali

Tamari

2017

The Arts and Crafts of Literacy

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This study analyses five Bamana-language texts composed in the earlier twentieth century by Amadou Jomworo Bary, a Fulbe scholar from the Masina (Mali), that were hand copied in 1972 by the Fulbe scholar and researcher Almamy Maliki Yattara. The writing system, which uses modified Arabic characters to note phonemes specific to Bamana, is compared to other West African adaptations of Arabic script. The article also examines the doctrinal positions developed and world view implicit in the texts, which concern water rites in San (Mali), Islamic belief and practice, and healing. Attention is drawn as to how knowledge of local cultural contexts can contribute to a better understanding of these manuscripts.

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Section: Comparisons and Historical Inferencesmentioning

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Section: Comparisons and Historical Inferencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bamana Texts in Arabic Characters: Some Leaves from Mali

Tamari

2017

The Arts and Crafts of Literacy

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“…In the case of the Beafada, ninki nanka (the mythical snake) is considered the owner of the land where the Beafada live. In Mandinga nìnkínanká is a spirit, an oracle with the shape of a snake (Giesing, 2007). In Quinara people talk about irã, the python that reaches the sea and becomes ninkinanka, when it gets as high as a palm tree (Abrantes, 2011).…”

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Diverging development times: protection of environmental rights in Cufada Lagoons National Park, Guinea Bissau

Amadori

2015

Bol. Antropol.

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Abstract. The protection of the environment and the promotion of human rights are increasingly seen as interconnected, complementary goals that share a core of common interests and objectives indispensable for sustainable development. Nonetheless, the complex interrelation of species in the semi-humid ecosystems of tropical latitudes is increasingly threatened by paths of economic development molded by the capitalist world economy. The creation of National Reserves and National Parks has often integrated sustainable management of natural resources and biodiversity conservation. Such is the case in Guinea Bissau, with regard to the creation of the Natural Park of Cufada Lagoons. This paper analyzes the external and internal pressures to biodiversity conservation of the Natural Park of Cufada Lagoons and the intersection between culture and sustainable management of natural resources.Key words: sustainable management of natural resources, biodiversity conservation, national parks, environmental and human rights, Guinea Bissau. 1Dissclaimer: the article shows the point of view of the author not the one of the organization for which she works. This article is part of research work conducing to a graduate thesis. Resumen. La protección del ambiente y la promoción de los derechos humanos son metas consideradas cada vez más como interconectadas y complementarias. Comparten un núcleo de intereses y objetivos comunes, indispensable para el desarrollo sostenible. No obstante, la compleja interrelación entre especies en los ecosistemas semi-húmedos de las latitudes tropicales es cada vez más amenazada por las formas de desarrollo económico moldeadas por la economía capitalista mundial. La creación de reservas nacionales y parques nacionales ha integrado frecuentemente el manejo sostenible de los recursos naturales y la conservación de la biodiversidad. Este es el caso en Guinea Bissau y la creación del Parque Natural de las Lagunas de Cufada. El presente trabajo analiza las presiones internas y externas a la conservación de la diversidad en el Parque Natural de las Lagunas de Cufada y los efectos de la intersección entre cultura y manejo sostenibles.Palabras clave: manejo sostenible de recursos naturales, conservación de la biodiversidad, parques nacionales, derechos ambientales y humanos, Guinea Bissau. Tempos de desenvolvimento divergentes: proteção de direitos ambientais no Parque Natural das Lagoas de Cufada, Guiné-BissauResumo. A proteção do ambiente e a promoção dos direitos humanos são objetivos considerados cada vez mais interligados e complementares. Compartilham um foco de interesses e objetivos comuns, essenciais para o desenvolvimento sustentável. Contudo, a complexa interrelação de espécies nos ecossistemas semi-úmidos das latitudes tropicais é a cada vez mais ameaçada pelas formas de desenvolvimento económico padronizadas pela economia capitalista mundial. A criação de reservas nacionais e parques nacionais têm integrado frequentemente o controle sustentável dos recursos naturais e a conservação da biodiversi...

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Hybridising Medicine: Illness, Healing and the Dynamics of Reciprocal Exchange on the Upper Guinea Coast (West Africa)

Havik

2016

Med. Hist.

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The present article seeks to fill a number of lacunae with regard to the study of the circulation and assimilation of different bodies of medical knowledge in an important cultural contact zone, that is the Upper Guinea Coast. Building upon ongoing research on trade and cultural brokerage in the area, it focuses upon shifting attitudes and practices with regard to health and healing as a result of cultural interaction and hybridisation against the background of growing intra-African and Afro-Atlantic interaction from the fifteenth to the late seventeenth century. Largely based upon travel accounts, missionary reports and documents produced by the Portuguese Inquisition, it shows how forms of medical knowledge shifted and circulated between littoral areas and their hinterland, as well as between the coast, the Atlantic and beyond. It shows that the changing patterns of trade, migration and settlement associated with Mandé influence and Afro-Atlantic exchange had a decisive impact on changing notions of illness and therapeutic trajectories. Over the centuries, cross-cultural, reciprocal borrowing contributed to the development of healing kits employed by Africans and non-African outsiders alike, which were used and brokered by local communities in different locations in the region.

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Ta:rikh Mandinka de Bijini (Guinée-Bissau)

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Bamana Texts in Arabic Characters: Some Leaves from Mali

Bamana Texts in Arabic Characters: Some Leaves from Mali

Diverging development times: protection of environmental rights in Cufada Lagoons National Park, Guinea Bissau

Hybridising Medicine: Illness, Healing and the Dynamics of Reciprocal Exchange on the Upper Guinea Coast (West Africa)

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