Book Synopsis MBARI by :
Download or read book MBARI written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis MBARI by :
Mbari
Download Mbari full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Mbari ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis MBARI by :
Author : Albert S. Gérard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789630538329
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (383 download)
Book Synopsis European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa by : Albert S. Gérard
Download or read book European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Albert S. Gérard and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major comparative study of African writing in western languages, European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Albert S. Gérard, falls into four wide-ranging sections: an overview of early contacts and colonial developments "Under Western Eyes"; chapters on "Black Consciousness" manifest in the debates over Panafricanism and Negritude; a group of essays on mental decolonization expressed in "Black Power" texts at the time of independence struggles; and finally "Comparative Vistas," sketching directions that future comparative study might explore. An introductory e.
Author : Herbert M. Cole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Mbari by : Herbert M. Cole
Download or read book Mbari written by Herbert M. Cole and published by . This book was released on 1982-04-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most fascinating artistic phenomena in tropical Africa, mbari houses are little known outside Igboland. Art historian Herbert M. Cole has drawn from his extensive research in eastern Nigeria to produce the first book-length study of this unusual art form. Cole describes the building of a mbari mud house to honor the gods, a process rich in tradition and ritual, marked by body painting, drumming, dancing, singing, and chanting. The ecology, socio-cultural systems, and religion of the Owerri area are examined as a backdrop to the elaborate stage of the building process, which may take up to two years to complete. Illustrated with rare field photographs and superb line drawings, this volume describes and interprets mbari houses not as isolated works of art but as monuments growing out of, and expressive of, the values and beliefs of Owerri Igbo culture.
Author : Ellen Dissanayake
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295979113
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (791 download)
Book Synopsis Art and Intimacy by : Ellen Dissanayake
Download or read book Art and Intimacy written by Ellen Dissanayake and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans actually need the arts
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Book Synopsis Monterey Accelerated Research System Cabled Observatory by :
Download or read book Monterey Accelerated Research System Cabled Observatory written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenya Land Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Book Synopsis Kenya Land Commission Evidence by : Kenya Land Commission
Download or read book Kenya Land Commission Evidence written by Kenya Land Commission and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rosalind Hackett
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826436552
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Book Synopsis Art and Religion in Africa by : Rosalind Hackett
Download or read book Art and Religion in Africa written by Rosalind Hackett and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa's religious and artistic traditions constitute a primary example of its intellectual and cultural vitality. Artistic works play a vital role - especially where oral traditions dominate - in communicating ideas about the relationship between the human, spiritual and natural worlds. This work is a comparative study of Africa's visual and performing arts, concentrating on their geographical, material and gendered diversity, and focusing on the relation of these arts to African religion. The author combines ethnographic and art-historical methodology but does not assume any prior knowledge of African art or African religion. The text seeks a greater understanding of the philosophical and religious aspects of African art, thus challenging western perceptions of what is "important" in terms of artistic representation. This approach reveals the transformative capacities and multi-dimensionality of African art. The work also highlights the changes brought about by Christianity, Islam and the newer religious movements in post-colonial Africa.
Author : Akin Adesokan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253065682
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Book Synopsis Everything Is Sampled by : Akin Adesokan
Download or read book Everything Is Sampled written by Akin Adesokan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything Is Sampled examines the shifting modes of production and circulation of African artistic forms since the 1980s, focusing on digital culture as the most currently decisive setting for these changes. Drawing on works of cinema, literature, music, and visual art, Akin Adesokan. addresses two main questions. First, given the various changes that the institutions producing African arts and letters have undergone in the past four decades, how have the representational impulses in these forms fared in comparison with those at work in pervasively digital cultures? Second, how might a long view of these artistic forms across media and in different settings affect our understanding of what counts as art, as text, as authorship? Immersed in digital culture, African artists today are acutely aware of the media-saturated circumstances in which they work and actively bridge them by making ethical choices to shape those circumstances. Through an innovative development and analysis of five modes of creative practice—curation, composition, adaptation, platform, and remix—Everything Is Sampled offers an absorbingly complex yet nuanced approach to appreciating the work of several generations of African writers, directors, and artists. No longer content to just fill a spot in the relay between the conception and distribution of a work, these artists are now also quick to view and reconfigure their works through different modes of creative practice.
Author : Biko Agozino
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000325873
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Book Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Africana Criminologies by : Biko Agozino
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Africana Criminologies written by Biko Agozino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook on Africana Criminologies plugs a gaping hole in criminological literature, which remains dominated by work on Europe and settler-colonial locations at the expense of neocolonial locations and at a huge cost to the discipline that remains relatively underdeveloped. It is well known that criminology is thriving in Europe and settler-colonial locations while people of African descent remain marginalized in the discipline. This handbook therefore defines and explores this field within criminology, moving away from the colonialist approach of offering administrative criminology about policing, courts, and prisons and making a case for decolonizing the wider discipline. Arranged in five parts, it outlines Africana criminologies, maps its emergence, and addresses key themes such as slavery, colonialism, and apartheid as crimes against humanity; critiques of imperialist reason; Africana cultural criminology; and theories of law enforcement and Africana people. Coalescing a diverse range of voices from Africa and the diaspora, the handbook explores outside Eurocentric canons in order to learn from the experiences, struggles, and contributions of people of African descent. Offering innovative ways of theorizing and explaining the criminological crises that face Africa and the entire world with the view of contributing to a more humane world, this groundbreaking handbook is essential reading for criminologists and sociologists worldwide, as well as scholars of Africana studies and African studies.
Author : Martin Shipway
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351882678
Total Pages : 687 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Book Synopsis The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume IV by : Martin Shipway
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume IV written by Martin Shipway and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of essays in this volume offers an overview of scholarly approaches to the ways in which diverse actors, representing the colonised or the colonising nations, or indeed the international community, reacted to colonialism during the lifetime of the modern colonial empires or in their aftermath. The coverage is broad in terms of geographical scope and historical period, with articles on the major colonial empires in Asia and Africa and the imperial centres of Paris, London and Berlin, from the conquests of the late nineteenth century to the period of decolonisation. The selection also reflects recent academic trends by focusing on countries whose colonial past and experience of decolonisation have been studied and debated with particular intensity, such as Algeria, Kenya and India. The volume draws on previously published articles and book chapters by leading international scholars writing in, or translated into, English and includes a critical introduction which situates each essay in relation to recent debates in this dynamic and expanding field of study.
Author : E. S. Atieno Odhiambo
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780852554845
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)
Book Synopsis Mau Mau & Nationhood by : E. S. Atieno Odhiambo
Download or read book Mau Mau & Nationhood written by E. S. Atieno Odhiambo and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades on from independence the role of Mau Mau still excites argument and controversy, not least in Kenya itself.
Author : Mary W. Wanyoike
Publisher : East African Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789966251121
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (511 download)
Book Synopsis Wangu Wa Makeri by : Mary W. Wanyoike
Download or read book Wangu Wa Makeri written by Mary W. Wanyoike and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wangu wa Makeri was born in the second half of the nineteenth century into traditional Gikuyu society. She underwent customary rites and married. In 1901, she was appointed the 'headman' of Weithaga Location, the first and only female headman of the entire colonial period. The author outlines her character and background, and the kind of leadership Wangu showed her community; and discusses to what extent the stereotypical portrayals of her as a leader - as a whore or personification of evil - are true. The study also assesses the significance in her fall from power of the conflict between traditional society and the colonial political framework within which Wangu worked, as against her own role in her downfall.
Author : Nathan Suhr-Sytsma
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107166845
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Book Synopsis Poetry, Print, and the Making of Postcolonial Literature by : Nathan Suhr-Sytsma
Download or read book Poetry, Print, and the Making of Postcolonial Literature written by Nathan Suhr-Sytsma and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book reveals how mid-twentieth-century African, Caribbean, Irish, and British poets profoundly affected each other in person and in print.
Author : Terri Ochiagha
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821446541
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Book Synopsis A Short History of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart by : Terri Ochiagha
Download or read book A Short History of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart written by Terri Ochiagha and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) is heralded as the inaugural moment of modern African fiction, and the book remains the most widely read African novel of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it has sold more than twelve million copies and has become a canonical reading in schools the world over. While Things Fall Apart is neither the first African novel to be published in the West nor necessarily the most critically valued, its iconic status has surpassed even that of its author. Until now—in the sixtieth anniversary year of its publication—there has not been an updated history that moves beyond the book’s commonly discussed contexts and themes. In the accessible and concise A Short History of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Terri Ochiagha provides that history, asking new questions and bringing to wider attention unfamiliar but crucial elements of the Things Fall Apart story. These include new insights into questions of canonicity and into literary, historiographical, and precolonial aesthetic influences. She also assesses adaptations and appropriations not just in films but in theater, hip-hop, and popular literary genres such as Onitsha Market Literature.
Author : G. N. Kitching
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300023855
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (238 download)
Book Synopsis Class and Economic Change in Kenya by : G. N. Kitching
Download or read book Class and Economic Change in Kenya written by G. N. Kitching and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical analysis is followed by a theoretical discussion of its implications for such issues as the mode of production operative in Kenya, the type of class analysis which is appropriate for the country, the role of the state in capital accumulation and class formation, and the possible relevance of Marxist value theory to the analysis of exploitation in Kenya. This book sets new standards for the study of the process of 'drift into dependency' and of the role of the state in the direction of a political economy. It will be invaluable not only to Africanists but to all those involved in the study of the social, political, and economic structure of Third World countries.
Author : Paul Stoller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136652663
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Book Synopsis Embodying Colonial Memories by : Paul Stoller
Download or read book Embodying Colonial Memories written by Paul Stoller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the West African Hauka - spirits that grotesquely mimic and mock "Europeans" of the colonial epoch. The author considers spirit possession as a set of embodied practices with serious social and cultural consequences. Embodying Colonial Memories is the first in-depth study of the West African Hauka, spirits in the body of (human) mediums which mimic and mock Europeans of the colonial epoch. Paul Stoller, who was initiated into a spirit possession troupe, recounts an insider's tale of the Hauka with respect and "brotherly" deference. He combines narrative description, historical analysis, and reflections on the importance of embodiment and mimesis to social theory, with particular reference to the Songhay peoples of the Republic of Niger.
Author : Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253007410
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Book Synopsis African Art and Agency in the Workshop by : Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Download or read book African Art and Agency in the Workshop written by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of the workshop in the creation of African art is the subject of this revelatory book. In the group setting of the workshop, innovation and imitation collide, artists share ideas and techniques, and creative expression flourishes. African Art and Agency in the Workshop examines the variety of workshops, from those which are politically driven or tourist oriented, to those based on historical patronage or allied to current artistic trends. Fifteen lively essays explore the impact of the workshop on the production of artists such as Zimbabwean stone sculptors, master potters from Cameroon, wood carvers from Nigeria, and others from across the continent.
