Ikenga Figures Among the North-west Igbo and the Igala
Author: J. S. Boston
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 134
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Author: J. S. Boston
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 134
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Published: 1977
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Akinwumi Ogundiran
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2014-10-03
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 0253013917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African–descended communities have expressed their values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms. The contributors trace the impact of encounters with the Atlantic world on African cultural formation, how entanglement with commerce, commodification, and enslavement and with colonialism, emancipation, and self-rule manifested itself in the shaping of ritual acts such as those associated with birth, death, healing, and protection. Taken as a whole, the book offers new perspectives on what the materials of rituals can tell us about the intimate processes of cultural transformation and the dynamics of the human condition.
Author: G. Chuku
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-27
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 1137311290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this groundbreaking collection, leading historians, Africanists, and other scholars document the life and work of twelve Igbo intellectuals who, educated within European traditions, came to terms with the dominance of European thought while making significant contributions to African intellectual traditions.
Author: Philip M. Peek
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2020-07-27
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1000096874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book demonstrates that copper-alloy casting was widespread in southern Nigeria and has been practiced for at least a millennium. Philip M. Peek’s research provides a critical context for the better-known casting traditions of Igbo-Ukwu, Ife, and Benin. Both the necessary ores and casting skills were widely available, contrary to previous scholarly assumptions. The majority of the Lower Niger Bronzes, which we know number in the thousands, are of subjects not found elsewhere, such as leopard skull replicas, grotesque bell heads, ritual objects, and humanoid figures. Important puzzle pieces are now in place to permit a more complete reconstruction of southern Nigerian history. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, African studies, African history, and anthropology.
Author: Clarke Karney Speed
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 214
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Isidore Okpewho
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780253211897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing stories he collected from narrators from the old West African kingdom of Benin, the author shows how the present mirrors the past in both folklore and political reality, suggesting that African states fail to create a level playing field for the plural identities within their borders, leaving marginalized peoples uncertain of their place in an uneven socio-political landscape.
Author: Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2007-10-24
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0253022657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the theme of warriorhood, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir weaves a complex history of how colonial influence forever changed artistic practice, objects, and their meaning. Looking at two widely diverse cultures, the Idoma in Nigeria and the Samburu in Kenya, Kasfir makes a bold statement about the links between colonialism, the Europeans' image of Africans, Africans' changing self representation, and the impact of global trade on cultural artifacts and the making of art. This intriguing history of the interaction between peoples, aesthetics, morals, artistic objects and practices, and the global trade in African art challenges current ideas about artistic production and representation.
Author: Michael A. Gomez
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2000-11-09
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0807861715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comprehensive study, Michael Gomez establishes tangible links between the African American community and its African origins and traces the process by which African populations exchanged their distinct ethnic identities for one defined primarily by the conception of race. He examines transformations in the politics, social structures, and religions of slave populations through 1830, by which time the contours of a new African American identity had begun to emerge. After discussing specific ethnic groups in Africa, Gomez follows their movement to North America, where they tended to be amassed in recognizable concentrations within individual colonies (and, later, states). For this reason, he argues, it is possible to identify particular ethnic cultural influences and ensuing social formations that heretofore have been considered unrecoverable. Using sources pertaining to the African continent as well as runaway slave advertisements, ex-slave narratives, and folklore, Gomez reveals concrete and specific links between particular African populations and their North American progeny, thereby shedding new light on subsequent African American social formation.