Le royaume de Kongo du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle

Le royaume de Kongo du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle

Author: Georges Balandier

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9782012794825

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" Dans le royaume du Kongo, une foule grouillante, habillé de soie et de velours, de grands États bien ordonnés, et cela dans les moindres détails, des souverains puissants, des indus-tries opulentes. Civilisés jusqu'à la moelle des os ! " Cette exclamation de l'explorateur et ethnologue Frobenius montre, qu'au tournant du xxe siècle, la grandeur de cette civilisation n'était pas effacée. Replaçant les événements qui donnèrent sa force au royaume dans la longue durée historique, l'auteur en analyse les institutions et les symboliques. Une capitale, San Salvador, reparaît où une modernité a tenté de naître dès le xvie siècle, à partir d'une transition féconde. L'affrontement des souverains, des hommes, la rivalité des dieux sont représentés dans la confrontation des croyances et dans les formes d'un art kongo somptueux. Ce livre est nécessaire à la compréhension d'une actualité où, de part et d'autre du fleuve, les deux Congo s'engagent dans une histoire nouvelle encore tumultueuse. Il montre les enracinements de la civilisation, il rappelle l'ceuvre accomplie au cours des siècles, l'impossible déni d'une histoire active et féconde.


The Kongo Kingdom

The Kongo Kingdom

Author: Koen Bostoen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1108590543

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The Kongo kingdom, which arose in the Atlantic Coast region of West-Central Africa, is a famous emblem of Africa's past yet little is still known of its origins and early history. This book sheds new light on that all important period and goes on to explain the significance of its cosmopolitan culture in the wider world. Bringing together different new strands of historical evidence as well as scholars from disciplines as diverse as anthropology, archaeology, art history, history and linguistics, it is the first book to approach the history of this famous Central African kingdom from a cross-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are written by distinguished and/or upcoming experts of Kongo history with a focus on political space, taking us through processes of centralisation and decentralisation, the historical politics of extraversion and internal dynamics, and the geographical distribution of aspects of material and immaterial Kongo culture.


Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1913

Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1913

Author: Jelmer Vos

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 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.


A New Paradigm of the African State

A New Paradigm of the African State

Author: M. Muiu

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-01-05

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0230618316

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Offers a historical, multidisciplinary perspective on African political systems and institutions, ranging from Antiquity (Egypt, Kush and Axum) to the present with particular focus on their destruction through successive exogenous processes including the Atlantic slave trade, imperialism, colonialism and neo-colonialism or globalization.


The Art of Conversion

The Art of Conversion

Author: Cécile Fromont

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1469618710

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Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo


Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. I

Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. I

Author: Fernand Braudel

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13: 9780520081147

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This social and economic history of Europe from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution organizes a multitude of details to paint a rich picture of everyday life.


Catastrophe and Creation

Catastrophe and Creation

Author: K. Elkholm Friedmann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-18

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 113434533X

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First Published in 1992. This is a study of what happened to Kongo society and culture at the turn of the 20th century, when the area was penetrated, brutally violated and colonized by Europeans. This book is the outcome of a project called Society and Culture in Crisis whereby the author found that evolution was a continuous, more or less unbroken process only at the global system level, whereas repeated rises and falls took place at the local level. This study closely looks at the declining development process in the Lower Congo and calls to the effects of colonization on society and culture.


Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. III

Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. III

Author: Fernand Braudel

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1992-12-23

Total Pages: 708

ISBN-13: 9780520081161

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By examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial peoples around the world, Fernand Braudel significantly changed the way historians view their subject. Originally published in the early 1980s, Civilization traces the social and economic history of the world from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, although his primary focus is Europe. Braudel skims over politics, wars, etc., in favor of examining life at the grass roots: food, drink, clothing, housing, town markets, money, credit, technology, the growth of towns and cities, and more. Volume I describes food and drink, dress and housing, demography and family structure, energy and technology, money and credit, and the growth of towns.


Collective Mobilisations in Africa / Mobilisations collectives en Afrique

Collective Mobilisations in Africa / Mobilisations collectives en Afrique

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-06-02

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9004300007

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This book uses empirical research to bring together a broad range of protest contexts in twelve chapters. From the formation of Maroon societies in the early colonial period, to female mobilisation in authoritarian contexts, via urban youth culture, women or mineworkers in trade unionism, as well as pro- and anti- gay rights activists, the protagonists here all insist upon their rights to protest in a variety of ways. Sometimes popular protest is expressed through religion, often (and sometimes violently) by young people, exasperated by their long wait for social achievement. Electoral wars and the formation of militias reveal a geography of violence in urban areas, which, in some sectarian excesses, can be displaced to rural areas, as described in the study on Boko Haram. Cet ouvrage regroupe un éventail comprenant douze contextes de contestation. De la formation de communautés marronnes au début de la colonisation, aux mobilisations féminines en contexte autoritaire, en passant par les cultures urbaines, les cultures syndicales des femmes et des travailleurs dans les mines, les contestations pro ou contre la liberté des homosexuels, tous font prévaloir leur pouvoir de contestation de manière plurielle. La voie religieuse est un domaine où s’exerce parfois de manière violente, les protestations de populations souvent jeunes, en attente de mobilité sociale. Les guerres électorales et la constitution de milices dessinent une géographie de la violence en milieu urbain, violence qui trouve à se déplacer en milieu rural dans certaines dérives sectaires comme en témoigne l’étude sur Boko Haram. Contributors are: Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga, Raphaël Botiveau, Christophe Broqua, Michel Cahen,Thomas Fouquet, Adam Hizagi, Alcinda Honwana, Alexander Keese, Marie-Nathalie LeBlanc, Dominique Malaquais, Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle, Ophélie Rillon, Johanna Siméant, Benjamin Soares, Kadya Tall.


The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology

The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology

Author: Peter Mitchell

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2013-07-04

Total Pages: 1361

ISBN-13: 0191626155

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Africa has the longest and arguably the most diverse archaeological record of any of the continents. It is where the human lineage first evolved and from where Homo sapiens spread across the rest of the world. Later, it witnessed novel experiments in food-production and unique trajectories to urbanism and the organisation of large communities that were not always structured along strictly hierarchical lines. Millennia of engagement with societies in other parts of the world confirm Africa's active participation in the construction of the modern world, while the richness of its history, ethnography, and linguistics provide unusually powerful opportunities for constructing interdisciplinary narratives of Africa's past. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of African archaeology, covering the entirety of the continent's past from the beginnings of human evolution to the archaeological legacy of European colonialism. As well as covering almost all periods and regions of the continent, it includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates, and situates the subject's contemporary practice within the discipline's history and the infrastructural challenges now facing its practitioners. Bringing together essays on all these themes from over seventy contributors, many of them living and working in Africa, it offers a highly accessible, contemporary account of the subject for use by scholars and students of not only archaeology, but also history, anthropology, and other disciplines.