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To Benin and Back

Author : Chris Starace
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462046231
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book To Benin and Back written by Chris Starace and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just out of college seeking the adventure of his life and an opportunity to do good, Chris Starace joined the Peace Corps and was sent to Benin, West Africa for two years from 1995 to 1997. The challenge was great, and he was pushed to the limit in adapting to a starkly different culture while living on a meager $6 a day. He made many discoveries about himself, as well as an exotic land. Delving into the culture and creating strong relationships with the people led him to appreciate numerous aspects of Benin, while many outsiders are unable to see past its shortcomings. To Benin and Back recounts a variety of unique experiences from an insiders perspective such as living in a remote village, exploring the regional market, harrowing bush taxi rides, odd encounters with Voodoo, having a strange illness diagnosed by a very imaginative traditional healer, being stuck in a sandstorm in the Sahara desert, and humorous anecdotes about adapting to the Beninese culture, insects, snakes, domestic animals and children. When he returned to the United States, he was forced to reevaluate his own culture while dealing with severe reverse culture shock. Traveling back to Benin seven years later allowed him relive, reexamine and assess his long-term contribution.

Great Benin; Its Customs, Art and Horrors

Author : Henry Ling Roth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Benin; Its Customs, Art and Horrors written by Henry Ling Roth and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: October 2004

Children of the Benin Kingdom

Author : Dinah Orji
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781999336332
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Children of the Benin Kingdom written by Dinah Orji and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From His Lips: Back From His Missions

Author : Zacharias Tanee Fomum
Publisher : ZTF Books Online
ISBN 13 : 1370515731
Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book From His Lips: Back From His Missions written by Zacharias Tanee Fomum and published by ZTF Books Online. This book was released on with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fellowship in the Lord and fellowship in the work and fellowship around the vision; was one of the strong points Professor Zacharias Tanee Fomum’s leadership. By means of this, he carried along the many young co-workers that God had entrusted to him, and built up a fused team of those who, together with him, were fired by the vision. Come along with us into fellowship with Professor Fomum in the service of the Gospel. Come along with us and savour the growth process of a global movement. Enter into the secrets of the fellowship that gave birth to a phenomenon – a cohesive World Conquest team.

Loot

Author : Barnaby Phillips
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1786079364
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Loot written by Barnaby Phillips and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Prospect Best Book of 2021 ‘A fascinating and timely book.’ William Boyd ‘Gripping…a must read.’ FT ‘Compelling…humane, reasonable, and ultimately optimistic.’ Evening Standard ‘[A] valuable guide to a complex narrative.’ The Times In 1897, Britain sent a punitive expedition to the Kingdom of Benin, in what is today Nigeria, in retaliation for the killing of seven British officials and traders. British soldiers and sailors captured Benin, exiled its king and annexed the territory. They also made off with some of Africa’s greatest works of art. The ‘Benin Bronzes’ are now amongst the most admired and valuable artworks in the world. But seeing them in the British Museum today is, in the words of one Benin City artist, like ‘visiting relatives behind bars’. In a time of huge controversy about the legacy of empire, racial justice and the future of museums, what does the future hold for the Bronzes?

Diasporas and Ethnic Identities in Africa

Author : Uyilawa Usuanlele
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666943320
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Diasporas and Ethnic Identities in Africa written by Uyilawa Usuanlele and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-05-06 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the enormous work on diasporas relating to Africa, the majority of this work focuses on trade diasporas located in West African groups, only mentioning the pre-colonial period in passing. Therefore, there is a need to redirect research on diasporas from within Africa to include non-economic diasporas during this time period. Diasporas and Ethnic Identity in Africa: The Edo ne Ekue among the Northeast Yoruba, 1485–1995 fills a gap by discussing the existence of diasporas in pre-colonial Africa that have been neglected by African scholars. Using the Edo ne Ekue as a case study, Uyilawa Usuanlele examines Edo people by shedding light on their political institutions, trading networks, and associations as autonomous and distinct within the Benin Kingdom. This book also discusses how the Edo ne Ekue simultaneously linked their institutions with the royal court of the Benin Kingdom at the expense of the local rulers of their host communities. Throughout this study, Usuanlele provides a better understanding of ethnic identity, state by state relations and their members outside their territorial boundaries to discover the dynamics of political, economic, and social changes within and between communities during and after pre-colonial times.

Storytelling Exhibitions

Author : Philip Hughes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350105953
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Storytelling Exhibitions written by Philip Hughes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storytelling Exhibitions describes the role and practice of modern 'spatial storytellers' and looks at the potential of exhibitions to shape our understanding of the world. It explains how curators, designers, artists and scientists combine to tell powerful stories through exhibition design. Exhibition designer and educator Philip Hughes shows how contemporary tools and technologies - digital reconstruction, 3D scanning and digital archives – interweave with traditional forms of informing, displaying and promoting to create powerful narrative spaces. Whether telling stories of politics, trends, society, war, science or history, Storytelling Exhibitions provides inspiration and guidance on designing installations which change the way we think. Examples included from: Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, USA Weltmuseum Wien, Austria Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, US Lascaux: Centre International de l'Art Pariétal in Montignac, France Stapferhaus, Lenzburg, Switizerland Micropia, Amsterdam, Netherlands ...and many more

West African Christianity

Author : Lamin Sanneh
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608331490
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book West African Christianity written by Lamin Sanneh and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The 1970 UNESCO and 1995 UNIDROIT Conventions on Stolen or Illegally Transferred Cultural Property

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192662341
Total Pages : 945 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The 1970 UNESCO and 1995 UNIDROIT Conventions on Stolen or Illegally Transferred Cultural Property written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 945 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The illicit traffic in cultural objects is a grave concern to the general public and international community. The resulting cultural damage fuels debates on how best to regulate the trade in cultural objects and inform legal responses at all levels for the protection of movable cultural heritage. Treaties concerning the treatment of cultural objects during peacetime and war represent some of the earliest multilateral initiatives on cultural heritage in the modern era. They also remain some of the most deeply contested, representing shifting fault lines within the international community. Authored by leading scholars and practitioners from around the world, this Commentary is the first to cover the two leading multilateral treaties on movable cultural heritage in one volume: the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property adopted by UNESCO in 1970 and the Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects adopted by UNIDROIT in 1995. This Commentary is designed to be the authoritative text for academics, lawyers, policymakers, and diplomats on the protection and regulation of cultural objects. Encompassing both public and private international law rules on the trade in cultural objects, it provides a detailed historical and thematic overview. Drawing on the travaux preparatoires and intergovernmental and state practice over the last half century, the Commentary provides an article-by-article analysis of the interpretation and application of these treaties. The texts 1970 UNESCO and 1995 UNIDROIT Conventions are examined in the working context of other culture conventions including the World Heritage Convention and the Intangible Heritage Convention, as well as related fields of international law, such as international humanitarian law, international criminal law, human rights law, and international economic law. The volume also offers a critical examination of current trends and future directions which are informing the field.

Care Work and Medical Travel

Author : Cecilia Vindrola-Padros
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793618879
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Care Work and Medical Travel written by Cecilia Vindrola-Padros and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume explores the interconnection between care work, travel, and healthcare, emphasizing the emotional dimensions of seeking care away from home. It brings together contributions from disciplines such as anthropology, nursing, primary care, sociology and geography and covers experiences of medical travel and other forms of remote care in the United States, Laos, India, Italy, France, Finland, Switzerland, and Russia.

Cosmopolitan Europe: A Strasbourg Self-Portrait

Author : John Western
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317159098
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitan Europe: A Strasbourg Self-Portrait written by John Western and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past hundred years of Europe are distilled in the experiences of the citizens of Strasbourg. From the turn of the twentieth century until 1945, Europe's ruling idea of nationalism rendered Strasbourg/Straßburg the prize in a tug-of-war between the two greatest continental powers, France and Germany. Then, in the immediate post-war period, ideals for European unity set up various European institutions, some headquartered in Strasbourg, which have gradually created a partially supranational Europe. At the end of the 1950s, a third theme arises: the large-scale settling in Strasbourg and other such richer, western European cities of persons from poorer lands, frequently ex-colonial territories, whose appearance and cultural practices render them essentially "different" to local eyes: expressions of racism thereby jostle with professions of multiculturalism. Now in the globalisation era, the issue of "immigration" has broadened yet further into transnationalism: the experience of persons who are embedded in varying manner in both Strasbourg and in their land of origin. Based on in-depth, lively interviews with 80 men and 80 women ranging from 101 to 20 years, and from all over the world (France, Germany, Alsace-Lorraine, Portugal, Italy, ex-Yugoslavia, Albania, Algeria, Morocco, Turkey, Cameroon, and Afghanistan amongst other countries), the author draws out of these compelling testimonies all sorts of compelling insights into issues of identity, race, nationality, culture, politics, heritage and representation, giving a unique and valuable view of what it means (and has meant over the past century) to be a European.

The Benin Kingdom and the Edo-Speaking Peoples of South-Western Nigeria

Author : R. E. Bradbury
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315293846
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book The Benin Kingdom and the Edo-Speaking Peoples of South-Western Nigeria written by R. E. Bradbury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.

Historical Dictionary of Benin

Author : Mathurin C. Houngnikpo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153818656X
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Benin written by Mathurin C. Houngnikpo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-03-06 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benin is now perceived of as a model of democracy in Africa because it has successfully established a democratic political system based on consensus and regular and fair elections, and it continues to improve its electoral and parliamentary systems. Since its democracy it has taken important steps towards laying the foundation for the rule of law by establishing stable political institutions that can withstand the test of time. It has also engaged in an important legal, institutional, and regulatory reform to establish a more favorable environment for private initiative. Historical Dictionary of Benin, Fifth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Benin.

The Brutish Museums

Author : Dan Hicks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786806833
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Brutish Museums written by Dan Hicks and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objectsare all stolen. Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of BeninCity, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections. The story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museums, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.

Confronting Colonial Objects

Author : Carsten Stahn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019269412X
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Confronting Colonial Objects written by Carsten Stahn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The treatment of cultural colonial objects is one of the most debated questions of our time. Calls for a new international cultural order go back to decolonization. However, for decades, the issue has been treated as a matter of comity or been reduced to a Shakespearean dilemma: to return or not to return. Confronting Colonial Objects seeks to go beyond these classic dichotomies and argues that contemporary practices are at a tipping point. The book shows that cultural takings were material to the colonial project throughout different periods and went far beyond looting. It presents micro histories and object biographies to trace recurring justifications and contestations of takings and returns while outlining the complicity of anthropology, racial science, and professional networks that enabled colonial collecting. The book demonstrates the dual role of law and cultural heritage regulation in facilitating colonial injustices and mobilizing resistance thereto. Drawing on the interplay between justice, ethics, and human rights, Stahn develops principles of relational cultural justice. He challenges the argument that takings were acceptable according to the standards of the time and outlines how future engagement requires a re-invention of knowledge systems and relations towards objects, including new forms of consent, provenance research, and partnership, and a re-thinking of the role of museums themselves. Following the life story and transformation of cultural objects, this book provides a fresh perspective on international law and colonial history that appeals to audiences across a variety of disciplines. This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Show Me the Magic

Author : Annie Caulfield
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Show Me the Magic written by Annie Caulfield and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging, eccentric, and humourous travel book about a most inhospital country in Africa: Dahomey. This is a country where corruption is rife, where Catholicism shares a place with Voodoo, and where the north is Muslim, arid and tough and the south colourful, sophisticated and artistic. Here, the countryside ranges from pretty English rural, to arid sub-Sahara. All this and more is seen by Annie in the back seat of a taxi driven by control-freak Isidore.

Benin

Author : Stuart Butler
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781841621487
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Benin written by Stuart Butler and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National parks game viewing markets pristine tropical beaches and surfing are just some of the highlights of Benin that are readily available Z99 aid of this guide which caters to cultural and historical visitors those tracing their roots in Benin