Luba
Author: Mary Nooter Roberts
Publisher: 5Continents
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 156
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurveys the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Luba people of Zaire.
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Author: Mary Nooter Roberts
Publisher: 5Continents
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 156
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurveys the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Luba people of Zaire.
Author: Piero Gleijeses
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 673
ISBN-13: 1469609681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVisions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991
Author: David Binkley
Publisher: 5Continents
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788874394043
DOWNLOAD EBOOK-A fascinating and essential overview of the Kuba people and their art through fifty exemplary pieces This volume explores the intriguing sculpture and decorative art of the Kuba people of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Best known for their king figures (ndop), considered among the greatest sculptural achievements of Sub-Saharan Africa, the Kuba actually produced little freestanding sculpture. Instead, they focused on a variety of decorative works that indicated success and achievement, and initiation-related pieces such as masks. The first book dedicated exclusively to this subject, Kuba examines the tribe's artistic development from the seventeenth century through the turbulent colonial and post-colonial periods. The authors also explore the impact of Kuba beliefs on their art and discuss the pervasive concerns that inform the tribe's art-making. With fifty beautifully reproduced examples and an engaging, informative text, Kuba is a fascinating introduction to African art.
Author: Babatunde Lawal
Publisher: 5Continents
Published: 2012-06-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9788874395873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArt features prominently in the culture of the Yoruba, a people numbering more than 25 million and subdivided into different kingdoms in Nigeria and adjacent regions. It both enriches life and is used to venerate and influence deities. This new book explores the archaeological and historical evidence that suggests that by the beginning of the second millennium, many Yoruba kingdoms had become major urban centers with highly developed economic, cultural, political, and religious institutions. Drawing on field observations, contextual analyses, oral sources, and published materials, this book offers insight into the poetics and dynamics of Yoruba art and the belief that the “beautiful” or “well-made” generates a special power that commands attention.
Author: Marie Yvonne Curtis
Publisher: 5Continents
Published: 2018-10-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788874398201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 18th volume in the successful reference Visions of Africa series, Baga introduces the art and traditions of this small rice-growing community living along the coast of Guinea in West Africa. Their extraordinary sculptures, wooden masks, and statues of various sizes as well as wonderful percussion instruments, chiefs' seats, and other skillfully carved utilitarian objects are presented in superb photographs. The relationships of these works to the culture and traditions of the Baga people--manifestation of divinities, ancestor worship, rites of passage, secret brotherhoods, and weddings, funerals, and harvesting--is brilliantly investigated by the author, who also analyzes the influence of colonization and newly introduced religions on more recent practices.
Author: Boris Wastiau
Publisher: 5Continents
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis introduction to the visual art of one of the most renowned peoples of Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo deals exclusively with sculpture. After providing a brief history of the Chokwe, the different chapters examine the figurines used in the ritual of divination, the statuary connected with the humba possession cults, antique (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) classical statuary referred to as of the native land, court items, privileges of the warrior aristocracy, and wooden masks linked to the chieftianship and the initiation rites of circumcision. Particular attention is devoted to the precious effigies of Chibinda Ilunga, the civilising hero of the myths of the origins, almost all the exemplars of which were brought to Europe in the nineteenth century, as well as to chairs, whose symbolism and function are revelatory both of the religion and the hierarchical structure of the chieftianship.
Author: Apollo Rwomire
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2001-07-30
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0313003920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite the recent growth of research on social problems facing the people of sub-Saharan Africa, there remains a critical lack of conceptual, epistemological, and empirical research and documentation. This sophisticated new book attempts to fill that gap by synthesizing, interpreting, and extending the existing literature on conditions that constitute serious impediments to socio-economic development in Africa. It provides an original and up-to-date survey of key problems ranging from poverty and inequality to violence and crime. The contributors, all of whom have lived or worked in Africa, show how social problems emerge, how they are defined, and how various actors attempt to deal with them. This timely book provides a much needed analysis of the major issues and debates regarding the dynamics of social problems in the African context. Social Problems in Africa is broken into four parts. The first introduces readers to the nature of social problems in general and provides a framework for analyzing and understanding social problems in an African context. Part II, on culture, human rights and democracy, examines these crucial aspects of social problems in Africa, as well as issues such as language and colonialism. Part III focuses on poverty and inequality, while conflict and violence is the focus of Part IV. Together, the chapters in this volume provide the most comprehensive and systematic approach to the issues available, bringing much-needed attention to the problems in Africa from the perspective of scholars who have lived and worked there.
Author: Louis Perrois
Publisher: 5Continents
Published: 2008-09
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide to Punu art by a world authority on the aesthetics and use of ritual objects by the peoples of southern Gabon.
Author: Carol Beckwith
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781426204241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a selection of full-color photographs from across Africa, covering topics including sense of place, the joy of being, inner journeys, patterns of beauty, rhythm from within, and capacity to endure.
Author: Daniela Bognolo
Publisher: 5Continents
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 160
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