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Author |
: Koen Bostoen |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 335 |
Release |
: 2018-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108474184 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108474187 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Kongo Kingdom by : Koen Bostoen
A unique and forward-thinking book that sheds new light on the origins, dynamics, and cosmopolitan culture of the Kongo Kingdom from a cross-disciplinary perspective.
Author |
: Cécile Fromont |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 2014-12-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469618722 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469618729 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Art of Conversion by : Cécile Fromont
Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, Cecile Fromont examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture and traces its development across four centuries marked by war, the Atlantic slave trade, and, finally, the rise of nineteenth-century European colonialism. By offering an extensive analysis of the religious, political, and artistic innovations through which the Kongo embraced Christianity, Fromont approaches the country's conversion as a dynamic process that unfolded across centuries. The African kingdom's elite independently and gradually intertwined old and new, local and foreign religious thought, political concepts, and visual forms to mold a novel and constantly evolving Kongo Christian worldview. Fromont sheds light on the cross-cultural exchanges between Africa, Europe, and Latin America that shaped the early modern world, and she outlines the religious, artistic, and social background of the countless men and women displaced by the slave trade from central Africa to all corners of the Atlantic world.
Author |
: Alisa LaGamma |
Publisher |
: Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2015-09-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781588395757 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1588395758 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kongo: Power and Majesty by : Alisa LaGamma
A fascinating account of the effects of turbulent history on one of Africa’s most storied kingdoms, Kongo: Power and Majesty presents over 170 works of art from the Kingdom of Kongo (an area that includes present-day Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola). The book covers 400 years of Kongolese culture, from the fifteenth century, when Portuguese, Dutch, and Italian merchants and missionaries brought Christianity to the region, to the nineteenth, when engagement with Europe had turned to colonial incursion and the kingdom dissolved under the pressures of displacement, civil war, and the devastation of the slave trade. The works of art—which range from depictions of European iconography rendered in powerful, indigenous forms to fearsome minkondi, or power figures—serve as an assertion of enduring majesty in the face of upheaval, and richly illustrate the book’s powerful thesis.
Author |
: Wyatt MacGaffey |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2000-03-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0253336988 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780253336989 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kongo Political Culture by : Wyatt MacGaffey
Lutete devoted much of his attention to aspects of Kongo ritual and religious belief, including minkisi and the rituals for the installation of chiefs. The original text of what he had to say about chiefship is printed, with translation notes. The work of other informants is also used."--BOOK JACKET.
Author |
: Kenny Mann |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0875186580 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780875186580 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kongo Ndongo by : Kenny Mann
A survey of the oral traditions and history of the African kingdoms of Kongo and Ndongo, which once occupied the region of west central Africa that is now the nation of Angola.
Author |
: John Kelly Thornton |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 1983 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39076001341903 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Kingdom of Kongo by : John Kelly Thornton
Author |
: Jeroen Dewulf |
Publisher |
: Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages |
: 293 |
Release |
: 2016-12-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781496808844 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1496808843 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo by : Jeroen Dewulf
The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo presents the history of the nation's forgotten Dutch slave community and free Dutch-speaking African Americans from seventeenth-century New Amsterdam to nineteenth-century New York and New Jersey. It also develops a provocative new interpretation of one of America's most intriguing black folkloric traditions, Pinkster. Jeroen Dewulf rejects the usual interpretation of this celebration of a "slave king" as a form of carnival. Instead, he shows that it is a ritual rooted in mutual-aid and slave brotherhood traditions. By placing these traditions in an Atlantic context, Dewulf identifies striking parallels to royal election rituals in slave communities elsewhere in the Americas, and he traces these rituals to the ancient Kingdom of Kongo and the impact of Portuguese culture in West-Central Africa. Dewulf's focus on the social capital of slaves follows the mutual aid to seventeenth-century Manhattan. He suggests a much stronger impact of Manhattan's first slave community on the development of African American identity in New York and New Jersey than hitherto assumed. While the earliest works on slave culture in a North American context concentrated on an assumed process of assimilation according to European standards, later studies pointed out the need to look for indigenous African continuities. The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo suggests the necessity for an increased focus on the substantial contact that many Africans had with European--primarily Portuguese--cultures before they were shipped as slaves to the Americas. The book has already garnered honors as the winner of the Richard O. Collins Award in African Studies, the New Netherland Institute Hendricks Award, and the Clague and Carol Van Slyke Prize.
Author |
: Koen Bostoen |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 335 |
Release |
: 2018-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108590549 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108590543 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Kongo Kingdom by : Koen Bostoen
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.
Author |
: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813049458 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813049458 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kongo Across the Waters by : Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
Explores the transatlantic connections between Central Africa and North America over the past 500 years in the visual and performing arts of both cultures.
Author |
: Simon Bockie |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0253315646 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780253315649 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Death and the Invisible Powers by : Simon Bockie
"[Bockie's] description of Kongo culture is vivid, beautifullyclear, and absolutely authentic, as only a native could make it.... I don't know ofanything of its kind that is both as good, ethnographically, and asreadable." -- Wyatt MacGaffey "Simon Bockie haswritten an engaging, often personal account of the views and behaviors surroundingdeath in his own society, the Kongo of Lower Zaire, northern Angola, and theCongo." -- Cahiers d'Etudes africaines ..". excellentbook of Kongo religious life and thought... " --Religion "It is a book that is remarkably well written, bothfor its readability and for its explanatory value.... the book is a superb startingplace for understanding Kongo religion, and will work as an introduction to Africanreligion in general as well." -- International Journal of African HistoricalStudies ..". an excellent introduction for anyone seeking tounderstand Kongo traditional culture and thought." --Oshun Rich in anecdote and case histories, Death and the InvisiblePowers is a personal account of the spiritual life of the Kongo people. It describesthe ancient traditions that nourish a culture whose name symbolizes the heart ofCentral Africa.