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African Fetishes And Ancestral Objects
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Book Synopsis African Fetishes and Ancestral Objects by : François Neyt
Download or read book African Fetishes and Ancestral Objects written by François Neyt and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The sculptures in this books, from four style groups in Central Africa - Kongo, Teke, Luba and Songye - were selected above all for their beauty, with a preference for pieces displaying carved signs linked to magic and witchcraft. The texts and photographs take an original slant on these figures, helping us see what is sublime or appealing in them and revealing something of the magic, mystery and fear they embody." -- Book jacket.
Book Synopsis The Fetish Folk of West Africa by : Robert H. Milligan
Download or read book The Fetish Folk of West Africa written by Robert H. Milligan and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Decolonisation of Materialities or Materialisation of (Re-)Colonisation by : Nhemachena, Artwell
Download or read book Decolonisation of Materialities or Materialisation of (Re-)Colonisation written by Nhemachena, Artwell and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary scholarly discourses about decolonising materialities are taking two noticeable trajectories, the first trajectory privileges establishing “connections”, “relationships” and “associations” between human beings and nature. The second trajectory privileges restoration, restitution, reparations for colonial dispossessions, lootings and disinheritance. While the first trajectory presupposes that colonialism was merely about “separation”, “alienation”, and “disconnections” between human beings and nature, the second trajectory stresses the colonialists’ dispossession, disinheritance and privations of Africans. Drawing on contemporary discourses about materialities in relation to semiotics, (non-)representationalism, rhetoric, ecocriticism, territorialisation, deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation, translation, animism, science and technology studies, this book teases out the intellectually rutted terrain of African materialities. It argues that in a world of increasing impoverishment, the significance of materialities cannot be overemphasised: more so for the continent of Africa where impoverishment “materialises” in the midst of resource opulence. The book is a pacesetter in no holds barred interrogation of African materialities.
Book Synopsis The Jungle Folk of Africa by : Robert H. Milligan
Download or read book The Jungle Folk of Africa written by Robert H. Milligan and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Asen, Ancestors, and Vodun by : Edna G. Bay
Download or read book Asen, Ancestors, and Vodun written by Edna G. Bay and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social and iconographic history of a West African sculptural form
Book Synopsis The jungle folk of Africa by : Robert H. Milligan
Download or read book The jungle folk of Africa written by Robert H. Milligan and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jungle Folk of Africa by Robert H. Milligan is an enthralling and informative exploration of the diverse and vibrant cultures that inhabit the African jungle. Milligan, an expert in African studies, provides readers with an in-depth look at the daily lives, traditions, and customs of the indigenous peoples who call the dense and often untamed jungles of Africa their home. Through vivid descriptions and meticulous research, Milligan brings to life the rich tapestry of life in the African jungle. The book covers various aspects of jungle life, from the unique social structures and rituals of different tribes to their interactions with the natural environment. Readers are introduced to the customs, beliefs, and survival strategies of these fascinating communities, offering a window into a world that is both remote and intriguing. The Jungle Folk of Africa is praised for its engaging narrative and detailed observations, making it a valuable resource for anyone interested in anthropology, African studies, or travel literature. Milligan’s ability to convey the complexities of jungle life with both respect and insight provides a deeper understanding of the people and cultures that thrive in one of the world’s most enigmatic regions. For those interested in exploring the lesser-known facets of African culture and the challenges faced by its jungle inhabitants, The Jungle Folk of Africa offers a compelling and educational journey into the heart of one of the world’s most captivating environments.
Book Synopsis Journal of the African Society by : African Society
Download or read book Journal of the African Society written by African Society and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia by : Charles Kendall Adams
Download or read book Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia written by Charles Kendall Adams and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Universal Cyclopd̆ia and Atlas written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Universal Cyclopaedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Along an African Border by : Sonia Silva
Download or read book Along an African Border written by Sonia Silva and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The divination baskets of south Central Africa are woven for a specific purpose. The baskets, known as lipele, contain sixty or so small articles, from seeds, claws, and minuscule horns to wooden carvings. Each article has its own name and symbolic meaning, and collectively they are known as jipelo. For the Luvale and related peoples, the lipele is more than a container of souvenirs; it is a tool, a source of crucial information from the ancestral past and advice for the future. In Along an African Border, anthropologist Sónia Silva examines how Angolan refugees living in Zambia use these divination baskets to cope with daily life in a new land. Silva documents the special processes involved in weaving the baskets and transforming them into oracles. She speaks with diviners who make their living interpreting lipele messages and speaks also with their knowledge-seeking clients. To the Luvale, these baskets are capable of thinking, hearing, judging, and responding. They communicate by means of jipelo articles drawn in configurations, interact with persons and other objects, punish wrongdoers, assist people in need, and, much like humans, go through a life course that is marked with an initiation ceremony and a special burial. The lipele functions in a state between object and person. Notably absent from lipele divination is any discussion or representation in the form of symbolic objects of the violence in Angola or the Luvale's relocation struggles—instead, the consultation focuses on age-old personal issues of illness, reproduction, and death. As Silva demonstrates in this sophisticated and richly illustrated ethnography, lipele help people maintain their links to kin and tradition in a world of transience and uncertainty.
Book Synopsis The Science of Society by : William Graham Sumner
Download or read book The Science of Society written by William Graham Sumner and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1-3 paged continuously. Vol. 4 by W.G. Sumner, A.G. Keller, and M.R. Davie."Published under the auspices of the Sumner Club on the foundation established in memory of Philip Hamilton McMillan of the class of 1894, Yale College." "Bibliographical note": v. 4, p. [1193]-1268.
Book Synopsis African Traditional Religion in Biblical Perspective by : Richard J. Gehman
Download or read book African Traditional Religion in Biblical Perspective written by Richard J. Gehman and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Speaking of Satan in Zambia by : Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps
Download or read book Speaking of Satan in Zambia written by Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps and published by AOSIS. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, it is argued that narratives about Satanism, which have become popular in the Christian context of Zambia from the 1990s onwards, make cultural sense because of their links to traditional African notions as well as contemporary Christian theologies. These narratives also resonate with unease regarding the cultural change, which is connected by Zambians to modernity. Narratives about Satanism further make personal sense to their narrators, the pastors who provide a platform for them, and their audiences. These arguments contribute to the academic study of religion in Africa, in particular of African Christianity and of witchcraft-related phenomena, as well as to the global study of discourses on Satanism and other conspiracy theories. All of these disciplines are related to the topic of Satanism in Zambia, but the phenomenon itself has not been discussed at length, which makes the existing academic literature incomplete and inadequate. The comprehensive focus on the case of narratives about Satanism in Zambia offers new insights and enhances current theoretical reflection. The research presented in this book is original, carried out during fieldwork spanning from 2012 to 2017 in Zambia and literature study in the years after that. Methodologically, the research is based on participant observation in churches in which testimonies of ex-Satanists were presented, as well as participation in the Fingers of Thomas, a Roman Catholic group which investigates rumours about Satanism. Furthermore, it is based on interviews with pastors and students of theology active in the deliverance ministry from Pentecostal as well as mainline churches and also on interviews with people who have had experiences of Satanism. Finally, the research is based on an analysis of collected testimonies of ex-Satanists as they were presented in these interviews, in churches, on radio programmes, in newspapers and in other sources.
Book Synopsis Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas by : Charles Kendall Adams
Download or read book Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas written by Charles Kendall Adams and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recreating Africa by : James H. Sweet
Download or read book Recreating Africa written by James H. Sweet and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004-07-21 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than as incipient Brazilians. Focusing first on the cultures of Central Africa from which the slaves came--Ndembu, Imbangala, Kongo, and others--Sweet identifies specific cultural rites and beliefs that survived their transplantation to the African-Portuguese diaspora, arguing that they did not give way to immediate creolization in the New World but remained distinctly African for some time. Slaves transferred many cultural practices from their homelands to Brazil, including kinship structures, divination rituals, judicial ordeals, ritual burials, dietary restrictions, and secret societies. Sweet demonstrates that the structures of many of these practices remained constant during this early period, although the meanings of the rituals were often transformed as slaves coped with their new environment and status. Religious rituals in particular became potent forms of protest against the institution of slavery and its hardships. In addition, Sweet examines how certain African beliefs and customs challenged and ultimately influenced Brazilian Catholicism. Sweet's analysis sheds new light on African culture in Brazil's slave society while also enriching our understanding of the complex process of creolization and cultural survival.
Book Synopsis A History of West Central Africa to 1850 by : John K. Thornton
Download or read book A History of West Central Africa to 1850 written by John K. Thornton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest times to 1852 with comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the region.
