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Author : J. F. Ade Ajayi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Yoruba Warfare in the Nineteenth Century written by J. F. Ade Ajayi and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. F. Ade Ajayi
Publisher : Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Yoruba Warfare in the Nineteenth Century written by J. F. Ade Ajayi and published by Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Comprises a detailed account of the Ijaye war of 1860-5 by J.F. Ade Ajayi ... and a general study of Yoruba warfare by Robert Smith."--Page v
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004618007
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Early State in African Perspective written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume are the product of an interdisciplinary research seminar on "The Early State in Africa", conducted during the 1979-1980 academic year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This seminar was one of a series of seminars on comparative civilizations. The participants included historians, sociologists, political scientists, and specialists in comparative religion, who shared an interest in the emergence and dynamics of the state in Africa and were concerned with trying to understand its origins and its various manifestations on the continent.
Author : Aribidesi Usman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107064600
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present written by Aribidesi Usman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.
Author : Sandra T. Barnes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253210838
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Africa's Ogun, Second, Expanded Edition written by Sandra T. Barnes and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-22 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this landmark work is enhanced by new chapters on Ogun worship in the New World. From reviews of the first edition: "... an ethnographically rich contribution to the historical understanding of West African culture, as well as an exploration of the continued vitality of that culture in the changing environments of the Americas." --African Studies Review "... leav es] the reader with a sense of the vitality, dynamism, and complexity of Ogun and the cultural contexts in which he thrives.... magnificent contribution to the literature on Ogun, Yoruba culture, African religions, and the African diaspora." --International Journal of Historical Studies
Author : meisai.org.il
Publisher : אילמ"א
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Asian and African Studies written by meisai.org.il and published by אילמ"א. This book was released on with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John David Yeadon Peel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253215888
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba written by John David Yeadon Peel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-21 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Peel is by training an anthropologist, but one possessed of an acute historical sensibility. Indeed, this magnificent book achieves a degree of analytical verve rare in either discipline." —History Today "[T]his is scholarship of the highest quality. . . . Peel lifts the Yoruba past to a dimension of comparative seriousness that no one else has managed. . . . The book teems with ideas . . . about big and compelling matters of very wide interest." —T. C. McCaskie In this magisterial book, J. D. Y. Peel contends that it is through their encounter with Christian missions in the mid-19th century that the Yoruba came to know themselves as a distinctive people. Peel's detailed study of the encounter is based on the rich archives of the Anglican Church Missionary Society, which contain the journals written by the African agents of mission, who, as the first generation of literate Yoruba, played a key role in shaping modern Yoruba consciousness. This distinguished book pays special attention to the experiences of ordinary men and women and shows how the process of Christian conversion transformed Christianity into something more deeply Yoruba.
Author : Jimoh, Mufutau Oluwasegun
Publisher : Book Builders
ISBN 13 : 9789211260
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book The Balogun in Yoruba land The Changing Fortunes of a Military Institution written by Jimoh, Mufutau Oluwasegun and published by Book Builders. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Balogun institution is part of an elaborate chieftaincy tradition among the Yoruba of south western Nigeria, whose antiquity predates modern times. This book examines histories of origin and significance of the chieftaincy, as well as various contexts of its evolution into a formidable traditional institution in Yoruba land. In doing so, the peculiar traits and experiences of various holders of the title in select Yoruba communities are examined within specific historical contexts, drawing attention to the exploits of heroes and villains in their collective history.
Author : Robert Sydney Smith
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299116040
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Kingdoms of the Yoruba written by Robert Sydney Smith and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of what has been described as "this minor classic" has been extensively revised to take account of advances in Nigerian historiography. The twenty million Yorubas are one of the largest and most important groups of people on the African continent. Historically they were organized in a series of autonomous kingdoms and their past is richly recorded in oral tradition and archaeology. From the fifteenth century onwards there are descriptions by visitors and from the nineteenth century there are abundant official reports from administrators and missionaries. Yoruba sculpture in stone, metal, ivory, and wood is famous. Less well-known are the elaborate and carefully designed constitutional forms which were evolved in the separate kingdoms, the methods of warfare and diplomacy, the oral literature, and the religion based on the worship of a "high god" surrounded by a pantheon of more accessible deities. Many of these aspects are shown in the drawings and photographs which have been used-for the first time-to illustrate this distinguished work.
Author : Jeremy Seymour Eades
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521226561
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Yoruba Today written by Jeremy Seymour Eades and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1980-05-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Iliffe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521484220
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (842 download)
Download or read book Africans written by John Iliffe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-25 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the South African general election of 1994, John Iliffe refocuses African history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, and their social, economic and political institutions have been designed to ensure survival and maximise numbers. These institutions enabled them to survive the slave trade and colonial invasion, but in the context of medical progress and other twentieth-century innovations the same institutions have bred the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. This demographic growth has lain behind the collapse of colonial rule, the disintegration of Apartheid, and the instability of contemporary nations. The history of the continent is thus a single story binding living Africans to their earliest human ancestors.
Author : Richard J. Reid
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470658983
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)
Download or read book A History of Modern Africa written by Richard J. Reid and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated and revised to emphasise long-term perspectives on current issues facing the continent, the new 2nd Edition of A History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of Africa's political, economic, and social history over the past two centuries. Adopts a long-term approach to current issues, stressing the importance of nineteenth-century and deeper indigenous dynamics in explaining Africa's later twentieth-century challenges Places a greater focus on African agency, especially during the colonial encounter Includes more in-depth coverage of non-Anglophone Africa Offers expanded coverage of the post-colonial era to take account of recent developments, including the conflict in Darfur and the political unrest of 2011 in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya
Author : Sandra T. Barnes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253113814
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)
Download or read book Africa's Ogun written by Sandra T. Barnes and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-22 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark work of ethnography explores the enduring, global worship of the African god of war—with five new essays in this new, expanded edition. Ogun—the ancient African god of iron, war, and hunting—is worshiped by more than forty million adherents in Western Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas. This rich, interdisciplinary collection draws on field research from several continents to reveal Ogun’s dramatic power and enduring appeal. Contributors examine the history and spread of Ogun throughout old and new worlds; the meaning of Ogun ritual, myth, and art; and the transformations of Ogun through the deity’s various manifestations. This edition includes five new essays focusing mainly on Ogun worship in the new world. “[A]n ethnographically rich contribution to the historical understanding of West African culture, as well as an exploration of the continued vitality of that culture in the changing environments of the Americas.” —African Studies Review
Author : George Brandon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253211149
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Santeria from Africa to the New World written by George Brandon and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On his own terms, Brandon more than fulfills his promise to take the reader on the transatlantic journey of the orisha and to explore the complexities of African memory in the diaspora." —American Historical Review "He adeptly addresses broader issues, such as power relations within Caribbean slavery, multiculturalism, and the forms of religious accommodation to cultural change. In addition, he offers a fresh and cogent assessment of the production and reproduction of African beliefs and practices in new contexts. Brandon's exemplary archival research is supplemented by skillful participant observation." —Choice The Yoruba religious tradition arose in West Africa, but its influence has spread beyond Africa to millions of adherents in the Americas as well. Santeria from Africa to the New World retraces one path taken by this tradition—a path from Africa to Cuba and to New York City. George Brandon examines the religion's transatlantic route through Cuban Santeria, Puerto Rican Espiritismo, and Black Nationalism. In following the historical and anthropological evolution of the Yoruba religion, Brandon discusses broader questions of power, multiculturalism, cultural change, and the production and reproduction of African retentions.
Author : Bruce Vandervort
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134223811
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Wars Of Imperial Conquest written by Bruce Vandervort and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. The aim of this book is to examine the origins and conduct of colonial warfare in Africa in the late nineteenth century, as far as possible from the perspectives both of the European invaders and the African resisters, and in the process to demonstrate the impact, both immediate and long-term, of these wars upon the societies, political structures and military theory and practice of both victors and vanquished. Vandervort has written this book with the student and general reader in mind; scholarly apparatus has been kept to a minimum. The book which follows takes as its point of departure the belief that we have now reached a point in our understanding of the military history of the partition of Africa where it is possible to begin to draw some meaningful general conclusions.
Author : Paul Finkelman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135805148
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book The Slave Trade & Migration written by Paul Finkelman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1990. American slavery began in Africa. An understanding of slavery begins with the African slave trade and the domestic slave trade. Both were indispensable to the creation of the New World slave societies, including the colonies that became the United States. This book is part of a eighteen volume series collecting nearly four hundred of the most important articles on slavery in the United States. Volume 2 looks at the domestic and foreign slave trade and migration and includes pioneering articles in the history of slavery, important break-throughs in research and methodology, and articles that offer major historiographical interpretations.
Author : Peter McKenzie
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004664688
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Hail Orisha! written by Peter McKenzie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orisha worshippers who were not subjected to forced migration to the Americas in the nineteenth century remained their own masters, inhabiting cities, towns and farm villages in their West African kingdoms. This study uses documentation from Yoruba writings and from the written record of European missionaries to describe the various facets of their religious life. Arranged in the form of a phenomenology, the work deals with such matters as the veneration of the environment; carved images of the divine; the orisha celebrated in festival, worship and sacrifice; systems of divination; female and male religious specialists; and the protean divinities themselves. The comprehensive use of archival material will ensure the abiding value of this historical picture of the orisha, useful for comparisons with the present day.
