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Encyclopedia of world cultures
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ISBN: 0816118124 081688840X 9780816888405 0816118086 9780816118083 9780816118120 0816118116 9780816118113 0816118140 9780816118144 0816118094 9780816118090 0816118108 9780816118106 0816118132 9780816118137 081611840X 9780816118403 0816118167 9780816118168 0816118159 9780816118151 0816118175 9780816118175 0028656717 9780028656717 0028660870 0028660862 Year: 1991 Publisher: Boston, Mass. G.K. Hall

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A basic reference source to the cultures of the world. Provides descriptions of all the cultures of each region of the world or of a representative sample of cultures for regions where full coverage is impossible, as well as accurate descriptions of cultures of the past.

I, Rigoberta Menchu : an Indian woman in Guatemala
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ISBN: 0860910830 0860917886 Year: 1994 Publisher: London Verso

Modern South Asia : History, culture, political economy
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ISBN: 0415169526 Year: 1998 Publisher: London Routledge

War of visions: conflict of identities in the Sudan
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ISBN: 0815717946 9780815717935 9780815717942 0815717938 0815723695 0585388180 Year: 1995 Publisher: Washington, D.C. Brookings Institution

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The civil war that has raged intermittently in the Sudan since independence in 1956 is a conflict of contrasting and seemingly incompatible identities in the Northern and Southern parts of the country. Identity is seen as a function of how people identify themselves and are identified by others in terms of race, ethnicity, culture, language, and religion. The identity question relates to how such concepts determine or influence participation and distribution in the political, economic, social, and cultural life of the country. War of Visions sheds light on the anomalies of the identity conflict and presents competing models: the Arab-Islamic mold of the North, representing two thirds of the country in territory and population, and the remaining Southern third, which is indigenously African in race, ethnicity, culture, and religion, with an educated Christianized elite. But although the North is popularly defined as racially Arab, the people are a hybrid of Arab and African elements, with the African physical characteristics predominating in most tribal groups. This configuration is the result of a historical process that stratified races, cultures, and religions and fostered a "passing" into the Arab-Islamic mold that discriminated against the African race and cultures. The outcome of this process is a polarization that is based more on myth than on the realities of the situation. The identity crisis has been further complicated by the fact that Northerners want to fashion the country on the basis of their Arab-Islamic identity, while the South is decidedly resistant.

Ethnicité et démocratie en Afrique : l'homme tribal contre l'homme citoyen?
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ISBN: 2738423434 Year: 1994 Publisher: Paris l'Harmattan

Indigenous peoples, the United Nations and human rights
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ISBN: 1862872597 1856495949 9781862872592 Year: 1998 Publisher: London Leichhardt, Aust. Zed Books The Federation Press

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Dit boek onderzoekt hoe de Verenigde Naties omgaan met het probleem van de inheemse volkeren. De invalshoek is hierbij het internationaal recht, meer bepaald de internationale standaarden voor de bescherming van de mensenrechten. Na een hoofdstuk over de verhouding tussen internationaal en nationaal recht, wordt nagegaan welke garanties het VN-handvest voor de inheemse volkeren biedt en worden de activiteiten van de VN-Werkgroep voor Inheemse Volkeren geëvalueerd. Vervolgens komen de internationale mensenrechtenverdragen die binnen de VN tot stand kwamen aan bod. Een derde deel gaat in op de periodieke rapportering i.v.m. deze verdragen. In een laatste deel wordt in het bijzonder aandacht besteed aan de Covenant over Burgerlijke en Politieke Rechten en aan de Conventie over het uitbannen van Rassendiscriminatie.

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