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jcoop11

Māori culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...M%C4%81ori_culture

cultures pacific

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  • cold and harsh in comparison to tropical island Polynesia. Great ingenuity was required to grow the tropical plants they had brought with them from Polynesia, including taro, kumara, gourds, and yams; this was especially difficult in the chillier southern parts of the country. The harakeke (flax plant) served as a replacement for coconut fronds and hibiscus fibre in the manufacture of mats, baskets, rope, fishing nets and clothing. Seasonal activities included gardening, fishing and the hunting of birds. Main tasks were separated for men and women, but there were also a lot of group activities involving food gathering and food cultivation, and warfare. Art was and is a prominent part of the culture as seen in the carving of houses, canoes, weapons, and other items. The people also wore highly decorative personal ornaments, and people of rank often had their skin marked with extensive tā moko similar to tattooing.
Amanda Stueve

US Doctors For Africa - 0 views

www.usdfa.org/inthenews.htm

africa healthcare usdoctorsforafrica

shared by Amanda Stueve on 29 May 07 - Cached
  • V. P. of Ghana joins US Doctors for Africa
  • Amanda Stueve on 29 May 07
     
    Has recent news relating to U.S. Doctors for Africa. Particularly interesting is the section about the VP of Ghana joining. Ghana is one country highly affected by the "brain drain" in Africa, and they are very active in trying to find a solution, but they still have a huge healthcare problem.
  • Amanda Stueve on 29 May 07
     
    Has recent news relating to U.S. Doctors for Africa. Particularly interesting is the section about the VP of Ghana joining. Ghana is one country highly affected by the "brain drain" in Africa, and they are very active in trying to find a solution, but they still have a huge healthcare problem.
Josh Sparkman

Study estimates 250,000 active child soldiers | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...0,,1830134,00.html

child soldiers

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  • Josh Sparkman on 28 May 07
     
    Associated Press article on current active child soldiers
jcoop11

Science fact sheet- traditional Maori fisheries - 0 views

www.starfish.govt.nz/...fact-traditional-maori.htm

cultures pacific trade

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  • Traditional Maori fishing operations were very well organised. Different tribes had their own fishing areas. Tribal boundaries were marked by landmarks and stakes and protected against trespassers. Fishing was often a community activity. Tasks involved everything from observing the movement of schools of fish and making gear, to catching and processing the fish. Early Maori knew a great deal about the life cycles of different fish. A fishing calendar was developed to work out when certain fish should be caught, what techniques to use, and whether it should be during the day or night. Kaimoana was a very important trading item. Coastal tribes traded it with inland iwi for goods such as birds, berries or workable stone. In Canterbury, Kaipoihai pa was a trading pa with eight different gates. It was similar to European trading sites in the middle ages.When Europeans arrived, Maori started trading with them. They bartered fish for other goods or sold it for cash. They exported fish to Australia in the early 19th century.
  • Maori are very knowledgeable and skilled fishers. Lines were made from flax fibre and sinkers from stones. Hooks were made from wood, bone, stone or shell. Sometimes a gorge was used instead of a hook. It was a straight piece of bone, sharp at each end and attached in the middle. When the line was pulled it turned sideways and caught in the fish's throat.
jcoop11

Wallerstein on World Systems - 0 views

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required wallerstein worldsystems

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  • makes possible analytically sound comparisons between different parts of the world.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      This is why Wallerstein's theory gained acceptance in the anthropological community. We are interested in making sound cross-cultural comparisons.
    • jcoop11
      jcoop11 on 20 May 07
       
      I may be reading to much into the wording, but do we really want to "compare" cultures. When we talk about comparing cultures, it seems as if we are holding them to a certain standard.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 21 May 07
       
      We are not comparing them to a standard - just trying to see the range of human possibilities - and how humans are interrelated.
  • feudalism
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      Three primary elements characterized feudalism: lords, vassals and fiefs; the structure of feudalism can be seen in how these three elements fit together. A lord was a noble who owned land, a vassal was a person who was granted possession of the land by the lord, and the land was known as a fief. In exchange for the fief, the vassal would provide military service to the lord. The obligations and relations between lord, vassal and fief form the basis of feudalism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudal_system
  • switch from feudal obligations to money rents
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  • These impoverished peasants often moved to the cities, providing cheap labor essential for the growth in urban manufacturing
  • Eastern Europe (especially Poland) and Latin America, exhibited characteristics of peripheral regions.
  • In Latin America, the Spanish and Portuguese conquests destroyed indigenous authority structures and replaced them with weak bureaucracies under the control of these European states.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      This is the most common pattern found in the world simulation, though other forms emerge as well.
  • served as buffers between the core and the peripheries
  • According to Wallerstein, the semi-peripheries were exploited by the core but, as in the case of the American empires of Spain and Portugal, often were exploiters of peripheries themselves. Spain, for example, imported silver and gold from its American colonies, obtained largely through coercive labor practices, but most of this specie went to paying for manufactured goods from core countries such as England and France rather than encouraging the formation of a domestic manufacturing sector.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      nice summary here of the relationship of core, semi-periphery, and periphery
  • Similarly, Protestants, who were often the merchants in Catholic countries, found they were targets of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church, a trans-national institution, found the development of capitalism and the strengthening of the state threatening.
  • During this period, workers in Europe experienced a dramatic fall in wages.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      This is interesting. We often think of this transition as benefitting the people of the Core - but it did not necessarily benefit everybody.
  • This powerful merchant class provided the capital necessary for the industrialization of European core states.
    • elligant35
      elligant35 on 20 May 07
       
      Is the merchant class the first indication of a middle class? If so, then why the fall in wages becasue it seems to me that all they created was a middle man to continously take the wages from the working class that supported the goods that were traded?
  • European states participated in active exploration for the exploitation of new markets.
  • With the independence of the Latin American countries, these areas as well as previously isolated zones in the interior of the American continent entered as peripheral zones in the world economy. Asia and Africa entered the system in the nineteenth century as peripheral zones.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      Expansion of the periphery - this typically represents Round 2 of the World Simulation.
  • the core enriched itself at the expense of the peripheral economies. This, of course, did not mean either that everybody in the periphery became poorer or that all citizens of the core regions became wealthier as a result.
  • Wallerstein asserts that an analysis of the history of the capitalist world system shows that it has brought about a skewed development in which economic and social disparities between sections of the world economy have increased rather than provided prosperity for all.
  • This was the first time that an economic system encompassed much of the world with links that superseded national or other political boundaries
  • Mike Wesch on 17 May 07
     
    Read all of this page & make notes so we can share ideas!
Ryan Felber

Research Activities, December 2006: Access to Care: Lack of health care options in rura... - 0 views

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healthcare

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  • Ryan Felber on 30 May 07
     
    American rural areas in danger
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