African peoples


This will include subdivisions of West African peoples, East African peoples, Central African peoples, and Southern African peoples These divisions are rather vague, not strict, and these cultural regions will in many cases overlap one another.	Sapience Home Site Map About Sapience Sociology Peoples of the world Western African peoples Eastern African peoples Central African peoples Southern African peoples

This will include subdivisions of West African peoples, East African peoples, Central African peoples, and Southern African peoples

These divisions are rather vague, not strict, and these cultural regions will in many cases overlap one another.

East African peoples

These include people of the North eastern coastal states, Central East Coast, and the interior sub-saharan regions.

West African peoples

These include peoples of the western coastal states and the western sub-saharan regions.

Southern African peoples

These include peoples of the southern parts of Africa.

Central African peoples

These include peoples of the central region of Africa.


History The periods of prehistory and antiquity in Subsaharan Africa are little known, since most of these peoples were not literate, and interaction with other peoples was slow and difficult. More information is available for classical and medieval times. These are best known from modern history, and fairly recently in the period. Their future has not yet been well examined.	Links to other sites: Not yet available :
Other areas of Sociology Other peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change can be used to examine African peoples. These can be applied to East African peoples, West African peoples, South African peoples, and Central African peoples. Other peoples of the world Western Civilization, African peoples, and American Indian peoples can be used to examine African peoples. These can be applied to East African peoples, West African peoples, South African peoples, and Central African peoples. Particular nations which have not been assigned to the subdivisions include: Botswana Gambia Guinea-Bissau Gabon Swaziland Other nations include Guinea-Bissau, Gabon, Estonia, Mauritius, Swaziland, East Timor, Trinidad & Tobago, Fiji Qatar, Reunion, Cyprus, Guyana. Western civilization Latin peoples, Anglic peoples, Germanic peoples, Northeast European peoples, Balkan peoples, and Scandinavian peoples can be applied to African peoples. East African peoples, West African peoples, South African peoples, and Central African peoples can be examined. [Nations include Slovenia] Latin peoples Latin peoples can be applied to West African peoples, East African peoples, Central African peoples, and Southern African peoples. Jamaica is not closely connected. Lusitanic peoples including Portugal and Brazil have been significant. French peoples including France and Haiti have also ruled much of Africa. Italic peoples including Italy have had some connection. Hispanic peoples including Panama have been less important. Spain has not been closely connected, for historical reasons. Hispanic Mexican American peoples including those of Mexico, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico have been connected. Hispanic Colombian American peoples such as those of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador have been connected. Hispanic Argentine American peoples such as those of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay have not been strongly connected. Hispanic Peruvian American Indian peoples such as those of Peru, Chile, and Bolivia have been weakly connected. Anglic peoples Anglic peoples can be connected to West African peoples, East African peoples, Southern African peoples, and Central African peoples. The United Kingdom directly ruled parts of Africa. Canada,Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland have not been quite as influential. Anglo-American peoples such as those of the United States can be connected. Germanic peoples such as those of Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, and Switzerland have been important. Northeast European peoples such as Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Belarus, Slovakia, Moldova, Lithuania, and Latvia can be connected. Balkan peoples such as those of Romania, Greece, Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Albania, Kosovo, and Macedonia can be connected. Scandinavian peoples such as those of Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway can be considered. Asiatic peoples Asiatic peoples can be connected to Eastern African, Western African, Southern African, and Central African peoples. Nations such as Kuwait can be connected.. The Middle East has been most influential with nations including Oman. North African peoples including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya are most directly connected. Egypt is important. Arabian peoples including Saudi Arabia Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates are connected. Levantine peoples including those of Syria, Israel, Jordan, the Palestinian Territories, and Lebanon can be connected. Persian peoples including Iran and Afghanistan are indirectly connected. Mesopotamian peoples including Iraq can be connected. Turkey is less directly connected. South Asian peoples South Asian peoples can be connected with East African peoples, West African peoples, Southern African peoples, and Central African peoples. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka can be connected. There are somewhat more distant connections with Southeast Asian people such as New Zealand . There are connections with Mainland Southeast Asia including Vietnam, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, and Singapore. There are also connections with the Southeast Asian Archipelagoes including Indonesia, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea. Native peoples of Australia can be connected. There are minimal connections with Central Asian peoples including nations such as Armenia. West Asian peoples including those of Azerbaijan and Georgia are not well connected. Inner Asian peoples including those of Uzbekistan, Kazakhastan, Tajikistan, Kyrgystan, Turkmenistan are not well connected. Mongolian peoples including those of Mongolia are not well connected. Oriental peoples Oriental peoples seem to be weakly connected with Eastern African peoples, Southern African peoples, Central African peoples, and Southern African peoples. China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. American Indian peoples American Indian peoples can be connected to Western African peoples, Central African peoples, Southern African peoples, and Eastern African peoples. Connections with Jamaica are possible. Middle American peoples including those of Panama are weakly connected. Meso-American Indian peoples including those of Mexico and Guatemala can be considered. Caribbean peoples including those of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico can be considered. Southwest American Indian peoples such as those of Mexico and the United States can be connected. South American Indians including those of Uruguay are weakly connected. Amazonian peoples such as those of Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay can be connected. Andean peoples such as those of Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Ecuador and Bolivia can be connected. Cono/Southern American Indian peoples such as those of Argentina and Chile can be considered. North American Indians found in the United States and Canada are weakly connected. Communities and cities will be examined in more detail as this site expands. These include: Khartoum Social structure and change Social structure and change can be applied to East African peoples, West African peoples, Southern African peoples, and Central African peoples. Social change Social change can be applied to Eastern African peoples, Western African peoples, Southern African peoples, and Central African peoples. Particular changes Particular changes can be applied to Eastern African peoples, Western African peoples, Southern African peoples, and Central African peoples. The agricultural revolution can be connected. The agrarian revolution can be connected to West African peoples. Bronze age movements, early Iron age movements, late Iron age movements, and modernization can be connected. The industrial revolution can be applied to East African peoples and West African peoples. The early industrial revolution, middle industrial revolution, and late industrial revolution were largely imposed before African peoples were prepared for them. Factors of social change including institutional change, cultural change, demographic change, and natural change can be considered. Processes of social change including innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be considered. Social types Industrial society including late industrial society, middle industrial society, and early industrial society is a more recent innovation. Agrarian society such as early modern society, late Iron age society, early Iron age society, and Bronze age society can be considered. horticultural societies can be connected. Hunting and gathering societies have been important. Social structure including community and regional structure, class structure, institutional structure, cultural structure, and anthropological structure is also vital. Institutions Institutions can be applied to Eastern African peoples, Western African peoples, Southern African peoples, and Central African peoples. Religion Religion can be applied to Eastern African peoples, Western African peoples, Southern African peoples, and Central African peoples. Particular traditions can be applied to East African peoples, West African peoples, Southern African peoples, and Central African peoples. Pagan religion predominates, especially African pagan. Asiatic Pagan, European pagan, American Indian pagan, and neopagan religions are much less significant. Abrahamic religion including Islam, and Judaism has had a growing influence. Christianity including old Christianity, Catholicism, Orthdoxy, Protestantism, and Mormonism can be connected. Asiatic religion has had fairly little influence. Secularism has also been useful. Religious organization including unstructured, fragmented, and structured varieties can be considered. Religious practice and religious beliefs can also be considered. Government including law, government activity and government organization will all be useful. Particular governments including national government and local government can be connected. International government including traditional empires, colonial empires, and modern compacts can be connected. Economics including industries, activity, economic systems, and companies is also significant. Education including research, instruction, cultural instututions, educational organization, and particular schools will be useful.Families and marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families are useful Culture Behavioral culture is highly important and distinctive. Customs, occupations, performing arts, sports and games, and cultural events are all useful. Conceptual culture including language, graphic arts, literature, mathematics, applied science, and philosophy is important and distinctive. Material culture including industrial technology, building technology, foodstuffs, clothing, transportation, communication, and other artifacts will be useful. Anthropology Particular groups can be considered. Human geography, especially African geography, is important. Human ecology including the effects of the environment on people, other life forms, and effects of people on the environment are useful. Physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion will be useful. Demography including births, migration, deaths, population size and structure, and population change can be considered. Social foundations including social presentation, social interactions, social control, social group types, and social group behavior can be connected. Personal studies Biography will be important. The human body including body systems, body functions, life cycle, disease, and form and appearance is largely indirectly useful. Psychology including behavioral element, mind, behavior patterns, developmental psychology, mental disorders, personality, and social psychology also seems to be indirectly useful. Science has mostly indirect connections to african peoples. Physics and chemistry seem less directly connected than astronomy and earth science. Biology including molecular biology, cell biology, organism biology, systematics, ecology, and biohistory can be connected.

The periods of prehistory and antiquity in Subsaharan Africa are little known, since most of these peoples were not literate, and interaction with other peoples was slow and difficult. More information is available for classical and medieval times. These are best known from modern history, and fairly recently in the period. Their future has not yet been well examined.

Links to other sites: Not yet available

Other areas of Sociology

Other peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change can be used to examine African peoples. These can be applied to East African peoples, West African peoples, South African peoples, and Central African peoples.

Other peoples of the world

Western Civilization, African peoples, and American Indian peoples can be used to examine African peoples. These can be applied to East African peoples, West African peoples, South African peoples, and Central African peoples.

Particular nations which have not been assigned to the subdivisions include:

Other nations include Guinea-Bissau, Gabon, Estonia, Mauritius, Swaziland, East Timor, Trinidad & Tobago, Fiji Qatar, Reunion, Cyprus, Guyana.

Western civilization

Latin peoples, Anglic peoples, Germanic peoples, Northeast European peoples, Balkan peoples, and Scandinavian peoples can be applied to African peoples. East African peoples, West African peoples, South African peoples, and Central African peoples can be examined.

[Nations include Slovenia]

Latin peoples

Latin peoples can be applied to West African peoples, East African peoples, Central African peoples, and Southern African peoples. Jamaica is not closely connected.

Lusitanic peoples including Portugal and Brazil have been significant. French peoples including France and Haiti have also ruled much of Africa. Italic peoples including Italy have had some connection. Hispanic peoples including Panama have been less important. Spain has not been closely connected, for historical reasons. Hispanic Mexican American peoples including those of Mexico, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico have been connected. Hispanic Colombian American peoples such as those of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador have been connected. Hispanic Argentine American peoples such as those of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay have not been strongly connected. Hispanic Peruvian American Indian peoples such as those of Peru, Chile, and Bolivia have been weakly connected.

Anglic peoples

Anglic peoples can be connected to West African peoples, East African peoples, Southern African peoples, and Central African peoples. The United Kingdom directly ruled parts of Africa. Canada,Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland have not been quite as influential. Anglo-American peoples such as those of the United States can be connected.

Germanic peoples such as those of Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, and Switzerland have been important.

Northeast European peoples such as Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Belarus, Slovakia, Moldova, Lithuania, and Latvia can be connected.

Balkan peoples such as those of Romania, Greece, Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Albania, Kosovo, and Macedonia can be connected.

Scandinavian peoples such as those of Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway can be considered.

Asiatic peoples

Asiatic peoples can be connected to Eastern African, Western African, Southern African, and Central African peoples. Nations such as Kuwait can be connected..

The Middle East has been most influential with nations including Oman. North African peoples including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya are most directly connected. Egypt is important. Arabian peoples including Saudi Arabia Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates are connected. Levantine peoples including those of Syria, Israel, Jordan, the Palestinian Territories, and Lebanon can be connected. Persian peoples including Iran and Afghanistan are indirectly connected. Mesopotamian peoples including Iraq can be connected. Turkey is less directly connected.

South Asian peoples

South Asian peoples can be connected with East African peoples, West African peoples, Southern African peoples, and Central African peoples. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka can be connected.

There are somewhat more distant connections with Southeast Asian people such as New Zealand . There are connections with Mainland Southeast Asia including Vietnam, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, and Singapore. There are also connections with the Southeast Asian Archipelagoes including Indonesia, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea. Native peoples of Australia can be connected.

There are minimal connections with Central Asian peoples including nations such as Armenia. West Asian peoples including those of Azerbaijan and Georgia are not well connected. Inner Asian peoples including those of Uzbekistan, Kazakhastan, Tajikistan, Kyrgystan, Turkmenistan are not well connected. Mongolian peoples including those of Mongolia are not well connected.

Oriental peoples

Oriental peoples seem to be weakly connected with Eastern African peoples, Southern African peoples, Central African peoples, and Southern African peoples.

China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

American Indian peoples

American Indian peoples can be connected to Western African peoples, Central African peoples, Southern African peoples, and Eastern African peoples. Connections with Jamaica are possible.

Middle American peoples including those of Panama are weakly connected. Meso-American Indian peoples including those of Mexico and Guatemala can be considered. Caribbean peoples including those of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico can be considered. Southwest American Indian peoples such as those of Mexico and the United States can be connected.

South American Indians including those of Uruguay are weakly connected. Amazonian peoples such as those of Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay can be connected. Andean peoples such as those of Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Ecuador and Bolivia can be connected. Cono/Southern American Indian peoples such as those of Argentina and Chile can be considered.

North American Indians found in the United States and Canada are weakly connected.

Communities and cities will be examined in more detail as this site expands. These include:

Khartoum

Social structure and change

Social structure and change can be applied to East African peoples, West African peoples, Southern African peoples, and Central African peoples.

Social change

Social change can be applied to Eastern African peoples, Western African peoples, Southern African peoples, and Central African peoples.

Particular changes

Particular changes can be applied to Eastern African peoples, Western African peoples, Southern African peoples, and Central African peoples. The agricultural revolution can be connected. The agrarian revolution can be connected to West African peoples. Bronze age movements, early Iron age movements, late Iron age movements, and modernization can be connected. The industrial revolution can be applied to East African peoples and West African peoples. The early industrial revolution, middle industrial revolution, and late industrial revolution were largely imposed before African peoples were prepared for them.

Factors of social change including institutional change, cultural change, demographic change, and natural change can be considered.

Processes of social change including innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be considered.

Social types

Industrial society including late industrial society, middle industrial society, and early industrial society is a more recent innovation. Agrarian society such as early modern society, late Iron age society, early Iron age society, and Bronze age society can be considered. horticultural societies can be connected. Hunting and gathering societies have been important.

Social structure including community and regional structure, class structure, institutional structure, cultural structure, and anthropological structure is also vital.

Institutions

Institutions can be applied to Eastern African peoples, Western African peoples, Southern African peoples, and Central African peoples.

Religion

Religion can be applied to Eastern African peoples, Western African peoples, Southern African peoples, and Central African peoples.

Particular traditions can be applied to East African peoples, West African peoples, Southern African peoples, and Central African peoples.

Pagan religion predominates, especially African pagan. Asiatic Pagan, European pagan, American Indian pagan, and neopagan religions are much less significant. Abrahamic religion including Islam, and Judaism has had a growing influence. Christianity including old Christianity, Catholicism, Orthdoxy, Protestantism, and Mormonism can be connected. Asiatic religion has had fairly little influence. Secularism has also been useful. Religious organization including unstructured, fragmented, and structured varieties can be considered. Religious practice and religious beliefs can also be considered.

Government including law, government activity and government organization will all be useful. Particular governments including national government and local government can be connected. International government including traditional empires, colonial empires, and modern compacts can be connected.

Economics including industries, activity, economic systems, and companies is also significant. Education including research, instruction, cultural instututions, educational organization, and particular schools will be useful.Families and marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families are useful

Culture

Behavioral culture is highly important and distinctive. Customs, occupations, performing arts, sports and games, and cultural events are all useful. Conceptual culture including language, graphic arts, literature, mathematics, applied science, and philosophy is important and distinctive. Material culture including industrial technology, building technology, foodstuffs, clothing, transportation, communication, and other artifacts will be useful.

Anthropology

Particular groups can be considered. Human geography, especially African geography, is important. Human ecology including the effects of the environment on people, other life forms, and effects of people on the environment are useful. Physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion will be useful. Demography including births, migration, deaths, population size and structure, and population change can be considered. Social foundations including social presentation, social interactions, social control, social group types, and social group behavior can be connected.

Personal studies

Biography will be important.

The human body including body systems, body functions, life cycle, disease, and form and appearance is largely indirectly useful. Psychology including behavioral element, mind, behavior patterns, developmental psychology, mental disorders, personality, and social psychology also seems to be indirectly useful.

Science has mostly indirect connections to african peoples. Physics and chemistry seem less directly connected than astronomy and earth science. Biology including molecular biology, cell biology, organism biology, systematics, ecology, and biohistory can be connected.

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