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Author | : John Iliffe |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521837859 |
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This is the first published account of the role played by ideas of honour in African history from the fourteenth century to the present day. It argues that appreciation of these ideas is essential to an understanding of past and present African behaviour. Before European conquest, many African men cultivated heroic honour, others admired the civic virtues of the patriarchal householder, and women honoured one another for industry, endurance, and devotion to their families. These values both conflicted and blended with Islamic and Christian teachings. Colonial conquest fragmented heroic cultures, but inherited ideas of honour found new expression in regimental loyalty, respectability, professionalism, working-class masculinity, the changing gender relationships of the colonial order, and the nationalist movements which overthrew that order. Today, the same inherited notions obstruct democracy, inspire resistance to tyranny, and motivate the defence of dignity in the face of AIDS.
Author | : Nkparom C. Ejituwu |
Publisher | : University of Port Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Multi-disciplinary Approach to African History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : T. J. Desch-Obi |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2021-04-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1643361937 |
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A groundbreaking investigation into the migration of martial arts techniques across continents and centuries The presence of African influence and tradition in the Americas has long been recognized in art, music, language, agriculture, and religion. T. J. Desch-Obi explores another cultural continuity that is as old as eighteenth-century slave settlements in South America and as contemporary as hip-hop culture. In this thorough survey of the history of African martial arts techniques, Desch-Obi maps the translation of numerous physical combat techniques across three continents and several centuries to illustrate how these practices evolved over time and are still recognizable in American culture today. Some of these art traditions were part of African military training while others were for self-defense and spiritual discipline. Grounded in historical and cultural anthropological methodologies, Desch-Obi's investigation traces the influence of well-delineated African traditions on long-observed but misunderstood African and African American cultural activities in North America, Brazil, and the Caribbean. He links the Brazilian martial art capoeira to reports of slave activities recorded in colonial and antebellum North America. Likewise Desch-Obi connects images of the kalenda African stick-fighting techniques to the Haitian Revolution. Throughout the study Desch-Obi examines the ties between physical mastery of these arts and changing perceptions of honor. Including forty-five illustrations, this rich history of the arrival and dissemination of African martial arts in the Atlantic world offers a new vantage for furthering our understanding of the powerful influence of enslaved populations on our collective social history.
Author | : Elizabeth Isichei |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 1997-04-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521455992 |
Download A History of African Societies to 1870 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This comprehensive and detailed exploration of the African past, from prehistory to approximately 1870, is intended to provide a fully up-to-date complement to the Cambridge History of Africa. Reflecting several emphases in recent scholarship, it focusses on the changing modes of production, on gender relations and on ecology, laying particular stress on viewing 'history from below'. A distinctive theme is to be found in its analyses of cognitive history. The work falls into three sections. The first comprises a historiographic analysis, and covers the period from the dawn of prehistory to the end of the Early Iron Age. The second and third sections are, for the most part, organised on regional lines; the second section ends in the sixteenth century; the third carries the story on to 1870. A second volume, now in preparation, will cover the period from 1870 to 1995. This book attempts a more rounded view of African history than most of the other textbooks on the subject addressed to a (largely) undergraduate level student. Earlier histories have tended to ignore some of the current foci in the scholarly literature on Africa, generally not reflected in the textbooks: these include discussions of topical issues like ecology and gender. Isichei's book is also more radical.
Author | : Geert Castryck |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 698 |
Release | : 2016-03-21 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9783865839268 |
Download Sources and Methods for African History and Culture - Essays in Honour of Adam Jones Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 537 |
Release | : 2018-08-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004380183 |
Download Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past outlines new directions in the historiography of West Africa. Its chapters explore new trends across regional and disciplinary fields with a focus on how political conjunctures influence source production and circulation.
Author | : Jennifer Johnson-Hanks |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2006-01-02 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780226401812 |
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Offering an intimate look at the lives of African women trying to reconcile motherhood with new professional roles, the author argues that Beti women delay motherhood as part of a broader attempt to assert a modern form of honor only recently made possible by formal education, Catholicism, and economic change.
Author | : M. Thomas J. Desch-Obi |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781570037184 |
Download Fighting for Honor Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The presence of African influence and tradition in the Americas has long been recognized in art, music, language, agriculture, and religion. T. J. Desch Obi explores another cultural continuity that is as old as eighteenth-century slave settlements in South America and as contemporary as hip-hop culture. In this thorough survey of the history of African martial arts techniques, Obi maps the translation of numerous physical combat techniques across three continents and several centuries to illustrate how these practices evolved over time and are still recognizable in American culture today. Some of these art traditions were part of African military training while others were for self-defense and spiritual discipline. Grounded in historical and cultural anthropological methodologies, Obi's investigation traces the influence of well-delineated African traditions on long-observed but misunderstood African and African American cultural activities in North America, Brazil, and the Caribbean. He links the Brazilian martial art capoeira to reports of slave activities recorded in colonial and antebellum North America. Likewise Obi connects images of the kalenda African stick-fighting techniques to the Haitian Revolution. Throughout the study Obi examines the ties between physical mastery of these arts and changing perceptions of honor. Including forty-five illustrations, this rich history of the arrival and dissemination of African martial arts in the Atlantic world offers a new vantage for furthering our understanding of the powerful influence of enslaved populations on our collective social history. T. J. Desch Obi received his doctorate in African history from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on historical ethnography, which he explores through the lens of African and African diaspora martial arts. He is currently an assistant professor of African and African diaspora history at the City University of New York's Baruch College.
Author | : John Iliffe |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2017-07-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107198321 |
Download Africans Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An updated and comprehensive single-volume history covering all periods from human origins to contemporary African situations.
Author | : J. F. Ade Ajayi |
Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download People and Empires in African History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A collection of essays in honour of Michael Crowder, a prominent figure in the field of African studies, which aims to evoke the main aspects of Crowder's work, in particular the relationship between large-scale systems of rule and diverse populations.