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Author | : Koen Bostoen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2018-11-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1108474187 |
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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 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1469618729 |
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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 Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, Cecile Fromont examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture and traces its development across four centuries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 | : John Kelly Thornton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alisa LaGamma |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2015-09-16 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1588395758 |
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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 | : Jelmer Vos |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299306240 |
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An insightful look at the onset of colonialism in Central Africa from economic, religious, and political perspectives, examining the ultimately tragic participation of African elites in colonial rule.
Author | : Jeroen Dewulf |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2016-12-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1496808843 |
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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 | : Anne Hilton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Analyzes in detail the political, social, and religious changes that occurred in the region of the kingdom of Kongo between the late fifteenth and the ninetenth century.
Author | : Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : African American art |
ISBN | : 9780813049458 |
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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 | : Kenny Mann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Angola |
ISBN | : 9780875186580 |
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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 | : Jan Vansina |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 2018-09-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429941390 |
Download The Tio Kingdom of The Middle Congo Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Originally published in 1973, this book reconstructs the political and economic organization and the social life of the Tio kingdom at the end of the 19th century by means of a critical synthesis of documentary and ethnographic data. Based on a detailed study of rich docuemntary sources and fieldwork, it analyses the persistent features of Tio social organization and political relations as well as the extensive economic changes associated with the development and later decline of caravan trading at Stanley Pool. It is fully illustrated with maps, tables and diagrams. This book shows the importance for both anthropoligical theory and historical interpreation of obtaining comprehensive data on the state of a particular society at a given time.