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The Tio Kingdom of The Middle Congo

Author : Jan Vansina
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429941390
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Tio Kingdom of The Middle Congo written by Jan Vansina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1973, this book reconstructs the political and economic organization and the social life of the Tio kingdom at the end of the 19th century by means of a critical synthesis of documentary and ethnographic data. Based on a detailed study of rich docuemntary sources and fieldwork, it analyses the persistent features of Tio social organization and political relations as well as the extensive economic changes associated with the development and later decline of caravan trading at Stanley Pool. It is fully illustrated with maps, tables and diagrams. This book shows the importance for both anthropoligical theory and historical interpreation of obtaining comprehensive data on the state of a particular society at a given time.

The Tio Kingdom of the Middle Congo

Author : Jan Vansina
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138599154
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book The Tio Kingdom of the Middle Congo written by Jan Vansina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1973, this book reconstructs the political and economic organization and the social life of the Tio kingdom at the end of the 19th century by means of a critical synthesis of documentary and ethnographic data. Based on a detailed study of rich docuemntary sources and fieldwork, it analyses the persistent features of Tio social organization and political relations as well as the extensive economic changes associated with the development and later decline of caravan trading at Stanley Pool. It is fully illustrated with maps, tables and diagrams. This book shows the importance for both anthropoligical theory and historical interpreation of obtaining comprehensive data on the state of a particular society at a given time.

The Kongo Kingdom

Author : Koen Bostoen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108590543
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Kongo Kingdom written by Koen Bostoen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kongo kingdom, which arose in the Atlantic Coast region of West-Central Africa, is a famous emblem of Africa's past yet little is still known of its origins and early history. This book sheds new light on that all important period and goes on to explain the significance of its cosmopolitan culture in the wider world. Bringing together different new strands of historical evidence as well as scholars from disciplines as diverse as anthropology, archaeology, art history, history and linguistics, it is the first book to approach the history of this famous Central African kingdom from a cross-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are written by distinguished and/or upcoming experts of Kongo history with a focus on political space, taking us through processes of centralisation and decentralisation, the historical politics of extraversion and internal dynamics, and the geographical distribution of aspects of material and immaterial Kongo culture.

Honour in African History

Author : John Iliffe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521837859
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book Honour in African History written by John Iliffe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first published account of the role played by ideas of honour in African history from the fourteenth century to the present day. It argues that appreciation of these ideas is essential to an understanding of past and present African behaviour. Before European conquest, many African men cultivated heroic honour, others admired the civic virtues of the patriarchal householder, and women honoured one another for industry, endurance, and devotion to their families. These values both conflicted and blended with Islamic and Christian teachings. Colonial conquest fragmented heroic cultures, but inherited ideas of honour found new expression in regimental loyalty, respectability, professionalism, working-class masculinity, the changing gender relationships of the colonial order, and the nationalist movements which overthrew that order. Today, the same inherited notions obstruct democracy, inspire resistance to tyranny, and motivate the defence of dignity in the face of AIDS.

Kimbanguism

Author : Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271079681
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Kimbanguism written by Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot, a sociologist and son of a Kimbanguist pastor, provides a fresh and insightful perspective on African Kimbanguism and its traditions. The largest of the African-initiated churches, Kimbanguism claims seventeen million followers worldwide. Like other such churches, it originated out of black African resistance to colonization in the early twentieth century and advocates reconstructing blackness by appropriating the parameters of Christian identity. Mokoko Gampiot provides a contextual history of the religion’s origins and development, compares Kimbanguism with other African-initiated churches and with earlier movements of political and spiritual liberation, and explores the implicit and explicit racial dynamics of Christian identity that inform church leaders and lay practitioners. He explains how Kimbanguists understand their own blackness as both a curse and a mission and how that underlying belief continuously spurs them to reinterpret the Bible through their own prisms. Drawing from an unprecedented investigation into Kimbanguism’s massive body of oral traditions—recorded sermons, participant observations of church services and healing sessions, and translations of hymns—and informed throughout by Mokoko Gampiot’s intimate knowledge of the customs and language of Kimbanguism, this is an unparalleled theological and sociological analysis of a unique African Christian movement.

Roots and Branches

Author : Michael Craton
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483152073
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Roots and Branches written by Michael Craton and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roots and Branches: Current Directions in Slave Studies discusses slavery including its history and impact on modern society. Organized into nine chapters, the book first covers slavery in the Americas, and then discusses slavery and its legacy. The first two chapters discuss the dispersion of African population and slavery within Africa, and the third chapter concerns itself with slave plantations. Chapter 4 discusses the Afro-American slave culture, while Chapter 5 covers the relationship between slavery and Protestant ethics. The sixth chapter covers the legacy of slave families in North America, and the next chapter relates slavery and peasantry as a process. Chapter 8 tackles the relationship between race and slavery in the Americas, and the last chapter deals with slavery and underdevelopment. Readers concerned with sociological issues, specifically slavery, will find this book a great source of insights.

Weaving the Threads of Life

Author : Renaat Devisch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226143620
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Weaving the Threads of Life written by Renaat Devisch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Yaka of Southwestern Zaire, infertility is a tear in the fabric of life, and the Khita fertility ritual is a trusted way of reweaving the damaged strands. In Weaving the Threads of Life Rene Devisch offers an extended analysis of the Khita cult, which leads to an original account of the workings of ritual healing. Drawing on many years among urban and rural Yaka, Devisch analyzes their understanding of existence as a fabric of firmly but delicately interwoven threads of nature, body, and society. The fertility healing ritual calls forth forces, feelings, and meanings that allow women to rejoin themselves to the complex pattern of social and cosmic life. These elaborate rites—whether simulating mortal agony and rebirth, gestation and delivery, or flowering and decay; using music and dance, steambath or massage, dream messages or scarification—are not based on symbols of traditional beliefs. Rather, Devisch shows, the rites themselves generate forces and meaning, creating and shaping the cosmic, physical, and social world of their participants. In contrast to current theoretical methods such as postmodern or symbolical interpretation, Devisch's praxiological approach is unique in also using phenomenological insights into the intent and results of anthropological fieldwork. This innovative work will have ramifications beyond African studies, reaching into the anthropology of medicine and the body, comparative religious history, and women's studies.

The Phonological Representation of Suprasegmentals

Author : Koen Bogers
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110866293
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Phonological Representation of Suprasegmentals written by Koen Bogers and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Eternal Ancestors

Author : Barbara Drake Boehm
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588392279
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Eternal Ancestors written by Barbara Drake Boehm and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many masterpieces of central African sculpture were created to amplify the power of sacred relics that affirm a family's vital connection to its ancestral heritage. This important volume, focusing on some 130 works representing a diverse variety of regional genres, illuminates the purpose and significance of these icons of African art, which first came to prominence because of their appeal to the Western avant-garde. While providing an overview of sources ranging from colonial explorers, missionaries, critics, artists, and art historians, the book breaks new ground in its examination of the complex aesthetic and spiritual dimensions of the reliquaries. Its interdisciplinary approach brings together the perspectives of scholars in African and medieval art history along with those in African history, religion, and ethnography." -- Publisher.

A Nervous State

Author : Nancy Rose Hunt
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822375249
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book A Nervous State written by Nancy Rose Hunt and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold’s Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as narrative form, she instead brings alive a history of colonial nervousness. This mood suffused medical investigations, security operations, and vernacular healing movements. With a heuristic of two colonial states—one "nervous," one biopolitical—the analysis alternates between medical research into birthrates, gonorrhea, and childlessness and the securitization of subaltern "therapeutic insurgencies." By the time of Belgian Congo’s famed postwar developmentalist schemes, a shining infertility clinic stood near a bleak penal colony, both sited where a notorious Leopoldian rubber company once enabled rape and mutilation. Hunt’s history bursts with layers of perceptibility and song, conveying everyday surfaces and daydreams of subalterns and colonials alike. Congolese endured and evaded forced labor and medical and security screening. Quick-witted, they stirred unease through healing, wonder, memory, and dance. This capacious medical history sheds light on Congolese sexual and musical economies, on practices of distraction, urbanity, and hedonism. Drawing on theoretical concepts from Georges Canguilhem, Georges Balandier, and Gaston Bachelard, Hunt provides a bold new framework for teasing out the complexities of colonial history.

The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa

Author : Steven Feierman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520066816
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa written by Steven Feierman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-09-22 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays are an account of disease, health and healing practices on the African continent. The contributors all emphasize the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions, from Morocco to South Africa and from the precolonial era to the present.

The Cambridge History of Africa

Author : J. D. Fage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521228039
Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Africa written by J. D. Fage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume VI covers the period 1870-1905, when the European powers divided the continent of Africa into colonial territories.

Medicinal Rule

Author : Koen Stroeken
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785339850
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Medicinal Rule written by Koen Stroeken and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As soon as Europeans set foot on African soil, they looked for the equivalents of their kings – and found them. The resulting misunderstandings have lasted until this day. Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume makes the arresting claim that across equatorial Africa the model of rule has been medicine – and not the colonizer’s despotic administrator, the missionary’s divine king, or Vansina’s big man. In a wide area populated by speakers of Bantu and other languages of the Niger-Congo cluster, both cult and dynastic clan draw on the fertility shrine, rainmaking charm and drum they inherit.

Clothing

Author : Robert Ross
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745631878
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Clothing written by Robert Ross and published by Polity. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In virtually all the countries of the world, men, and to a lesser extent women, are today dressed in very similar clothing. This book gives a compelling account and analysis of the process by which this has come about. At the same time it takes seriously those places where, for whatever reason, this process has not occurred, or has been reversed, and provides explanations for these developments. The first part of this story recounts how the cultural, political and economic power of Europe and, from the later nineteenth century North America, has provided an impetus for the adoption of whatever was at that time standard Western dress. Set against this, Robert Ross shows how the adoption of European style dress, or its rejection, has always been a political act, performed most frequently in order to claim equality with colonial masters, more often a male option, or to stress distinction from them, which women, perhaps under male duress, more frequently did. The book takes a refreshing global perspective to its subject, with all continents and many countries being discussed. It investigates not merely the symbolic and message-bearing aspects of clothing, but also practical matters of production and, equally importantly, distribution.

Encyclopedia of African History

Author : Kevin Shillington
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1579582451
Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of African History written by Kevin Shillington and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers more than one thousand entries covering all aspects of African history, civilization, and culture.

Medical histories of Belgium

Author : Joris Vandendriessche
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526156547
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Medical histories of Belgium written by Joris Vandendriessche and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical histories of Belgium reshapes Belgian history of medicine by bringing together a new generation of scholars. Going beyond a chronological narrative, the book offers new insights by questioning classic themes of the history of medicine: physicians, institutions and the nation state. While retracing specific Belgian characteristics, it also engages with broader European developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Medical histories of Belgium will appeal to Historians of Belgium in various subfields, especially cultural history and political history and medical historians and medical practitioners seeking the historical context of their activities.

Rogue Empires

Author : Steven Press
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067497185X
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Rogue Empires written by Steven Press and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The man who bought a country -- The emergence of an idea -- King Leopold's Borneo -- Bismarck's Borneo -- Epilogue: "A great act of folly