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Author |
: Mark Sealy |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9053309322 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789053309322 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Cosmologies by : Mark Sealy
Produced in conjunction with the FotoFest Biennial 2020 exhibition, the African Cosmologies book will feature essays by leading scholars in the fields of contemporary art, photography, and cultural studies. Images of installations, photography, film, and video works by artists will highlight the range of interdisciplinary approaches that are represented in the Biennial exhibition. African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other is co-edited by Autograph ABP Director, Mark Sealy MBE, and FotoFest Executive Director, Steven Evans.--Fotofest International
Author |
: Kimbwandènde Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau |
Publisher |
: Athelia Henrietta Press |
Total Pages |
: 168 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000079229245 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Cosmology of the Bântu-Kôngo by : Kimbwandènde Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau
"Life is fundamentally a process of perpetual and mutual communication; and to communicate is to emit and to receive waves and radiations (minika ye minienie). This process of, receiving and releasing or passing them on (tambula ye tambikisa) is the key to human beings game of survival. A person is perpetually bathed by radiations' weight, (zitu kia minienie). The weight (zitu/demo) of radiations may have a negative as well as positive impact on any tiny being, for example a person who represents the most vibrating: "kolo" (knot) of relationships." "The following expressions are very common among the Bantu, in general, and among the Kongo in particular, which prove to us the antiquity of these concepts in the African continent; Our businesses are waved/shaken; our health is waved/shaken; what we possess is waved/shaken; the communities are waved/shaken: Where are these (negative) waves coming from (Salu bieto bieti nikunwa; mavimpi nikunwa; biltuvwidi nikunwa; makanda nikunwa: Kwe kutukanga minika miami)?" "For the Bantu, a person lives and moves within an ocean of waves/radiations. One is sensitive or immune to them. To be sensitive to waves is to be able to react negatively or positively to those waves/forces. But to be immune to surrounding waves/forces, is to be less reactive to them or not at all. These differences account for varying degrees in the process of knowing/learning among individuals" --BOOK Cover.
Author |
: Daryll Forde |
Publisher |
: James Currey Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0852552815 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780852552810 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Worlds by : Daryll Forde
This series of Classics in African Anthropology is primarily drawn from a distinct family of texts which dominated the academic analysis of society in mid-20th century Africa. The texts are significant yet often neglected, but have stood the test of time, according to the editors. Originally published in 1954. New edition published in association with the International African Institute North America: Transaction Books; Germany: Lit Verlag
Author |
: Jacob K. Olupona |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 177 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199790586 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199790582 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Religions by : Jacob K. Olupona
This book connects traditional religions to the thriving religious activity in Africa today.
Author |
: International African Institute |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 1963 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:319510018745588 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Worlds by : International African Institute
Author |
: James Kiernan |
Publisher |
: LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3825887618 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783825887612 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Power of the Occult in Modern Africa by : James Kiernan
The occult is a framework of ideas and related practices that is drawn upon as a common resource to provide an understanding of how an apparently random world 'really' works. Based mainly on experiential research in a range of African societies, the essays in this volume examine the relevance of the occult to a variety of social concepts and contexts. These studies stress three features of the occult in modern Africa: 1) as an explanatory and tactical device, it is resilient; 2) it is malleable, with a capacity to absorb and assimilate new elements; 3) it is flexible and adaptable to emerging situations and novel circumstances. Of interest to specialists in the fields of religion, social science and African studies, this book will benefit the general reader interested in the occult and its relevance to modernity and globalisation.
Author |
: Molefi Kete Asante |
Publisher |
: SAGE |
Total Pages |
: 473 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781412936361 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1412936365 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Encyclopedia of African Religion by : Molefi Kete Asante
Collects almost five hundred entries that cover the African response to spirituality, taboos, ethics, sacred space, and objects.
Author |
: K. Zauditu-Selassie |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105131678455 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Spiritual Traditions in the Novels of Toni Morrison by : K. Zauditu-Selassie
"Addresses a real need: a scholarly and ritually informed reading of spirituality in the work of a major African American author. No other work catalogues so thoroughly the grounding of Morrison's work in African cosmogonies. Zauditu-Selassie's many readings of Ba Kongo and Yoruba spiritual presence in Morrison's work are incomparably detailed and generally convincing."--Keith Cartwright, University of North Florida Toni Morrison herself has long urged for organic critical readings of her works. K. Zauditu-Selassie delves deeply into African spiritual traditions, clearly explaining the meanings of African cosmology and epistemology as manifest in Morrison's novels. The result is a comprehensive, tour-de-force critical investigation of such works as The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Paradise, Love, Beloved, and Jazz. While others have studied the African spiritual ideas and values encoded in Morrison's work, African Spiritual Traditions in the Novels of Toni Morrison is the most comprehensive. Zauditu-Selassie explores a wide range of complex concepts, including African deities, ancestral ideas, spiritual archetypes, mythic trope, and lyrical prose representing African spiritual continuities. Zauditu-Selassie is uniquely positioned to write this book, as she is not only a literary critic but also a practicing Obatala priest in the Yoruba spiritual tradition and a Mama Nganga in the Kongo spiritual system. She analyzes tensions between communal and individual values and moral codes as represented in Morrison's novels. She also uses interviews with and nonfiction written by Morrison to further build her critical paradigm.
Author |
: Therese E. Higgins |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 164 |
Release |
: 2014-05-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317794189 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317794184 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religiosity, Cosmology and Folklore by : Therese E. Higgins
This book presents background information on the beliefs, customs, traditions and cosmologies of several of Africa's foremost peoples, relates these findings to each of Morrison's seven novels by highlighting the connections between the African root and the African-American product, and elucidates how this connection helps to understand and to clarify many of Morrison's allusions to the culture out of which she writes. It presents a new way of reading Morrison's work that has been previously overlooked, and moves beyond just African-American culture, delving into Africa and its people.
Author |
: Christine M. Kreamer |
Publisher |
: The Monacelli Press, LLC |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2012-11-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781580933438 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1580933432 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Cosmos by : Christine M. Kreamer
A groundbreaking scholarly publication, accompanying an exhibition organized by the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, African Cosmos: Stellar Arts brings together exceptional works of art, dating from ancient times to the present, and essays by leading scholars and contemporary artists to consider African cultural astronomy: creativity and artistic practice in Africa as it is linked to celestial bodies and atmospheric phenomena. African concepts of the universe are intensely personal, placing human beings in relation to the earth and sky, and with the sun, moon, and stars. At the core of creation myths and the foundation of moral values, celestial bodies are often accorded sacred capacities and are part of the “cosmological map” that allows humans to chart their course through life.