POL301Y1 Lecture Notes - Afroasiatic Languages, Middle Ages, Kwame Nkrumah
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Pol301 lecture notes may 16, 2013: contemporary map with borders drawn in berlin in 1884, continent of diversity, kinship organizations. Matrilineal: matri means mother, tracing lineage/ancestry through mothers line. Patrilineal: patri means father, tracing lineage through father"s line. Bilateral or undifferentiated (cognatic: trace lineage through matri/patri. Colonizers destroyed most matri-focus societies: religion and system of though. The triple heritage of africa (coined by ali mazrui: african society has a combination of all three, religion. North of the sahara and eastern coast is mostly muslim: central, and south is mostly christian or indigenous geographic diversity. A vast continent with vast geographic diversity: sahara desert, rainforest, mountains etc. First continent to be inhabited by humans: only continent that is equally separated by equator. Un-centralized (with different forms of political organizations, clan lineage lineages, and acephalous or segmentary societies: economic organizations. Pastoral nomadism: engaged in pastoral activities: people move with animals. Sedentary agriculture: many have settled and started farms.
