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Author: Sundiata A. Djata
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the powerful Bamana State, which emerged in 1712 and centred around the Middle Niger. It shows how it was a solid commercial, military and agricultural society for centuries. The author also tells of the efforts of two alien powers to assert hegemony over the Bamana of Segu.
Author: Molly Roth
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 3825813525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study argues that material compensation and caste status are essential to the signifying practice of Malian jeliw ("griots") and its continuing relevance. As Mande society's hereditary "masters of the word", jeliw� entrance their listeners with accounts of ancestors' heroic deeds, sometimes in the context of epic recitations and sometimes in popular song. These genealogical narratives function as praise in a society that understands descent as an essential constituent of personality. Indexing an imperial social order with inherited bonds of obligation between patron and client, this praise reproduces the status of the jeliw. Gifts of cash and goods to the jeliw on the occasions of these performances concretize the traditional obligations of nobles and, thus, realize the nobility of the givers. Material compensation makes jeli flattery true in ways it would not otherwise be. These gifts defy both the Maussian discussion of gifting and the Marxian analysis of commodity exchange. The jeliw's semiosis is performative in the sense that they help to create the historical imaginary to which their utterances refer. Thus, performances of jeli praise may help Malians to negotiate the marginalizing effects of globalization.
Author: David C. Conrad
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1604131640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores empires of medieval west Africa.
Author: Alisa LaGamma
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1588396878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis groundbreaking volume examines the extraordinary artistic and cultural traditions of the African region known as the western Sahel, a vast area on the southern edge of the Sahara desert that includes present-day Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, and Niger. This is the first book to present a comprehensive overview of the diverse cultural achievements and traditions of the region, spanning more than 1,300 years from the pre Islamic period through the nineteenth century. It features some of the earliest extant art from sub Saharan Africa as well as such iconic works as sculptures by the Dogon and Bamana peoples of Mali. Essays by leading international scholars discuss the art, architecture, archaeology, literature, philosophy, religion, and history of the Sahel, exploring the unique cultural landscape in which these ancient communities flourished. Richly illustrated and brilliantly argued, Sahel brings to life the enduring forms of expression created by the peoples who lived in this diverse crossroads of the world.
Author: Risto Marjomaa
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: M. Muiu
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-01-05
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0230618316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers 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.
Author: KEVIN SHILLINGTON.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 1908
ISBN-13: 1135456704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Morris
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1568984138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the complex technique of wet earth construction, as practised in parts of West Africa. It includes a variety of structures, ranging from small huts to mosques, including the mosque at Dougoumba which dates from the 12th century.
Author: Richard L. Roberts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-02-24
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1009116894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased around the life of Mademba Sèye, an African born in the colonial town of Saint Louis du Sénégal in 1852, who transformed himself with the help of his French patrons from a telegraph clerk into an African king, this book examines Mademba's life and career to reveal how colonialism in French West Africa was articulated differently at different times and how Mademba survived these changes by periodically reinventing himself. Investigating Mademba's alleged abuses of power and crimes that pitted French colonial indirect rule policy with its foundations in patronage and loyalty against its stated commitment to the rule of law and the civilizing mission, Conflicts of Colonialism sheds light on conflicts between different forms of colonialism and the deep ambiguities of the rule of law in colonial societies, which, despite serious challenges to Mademba's rule, allowed him to remain king until his death in 1918.
Author: Stephen Belcher
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1999-10-22
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780253212818
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Belcher's volume contains a much needed and extremely well-integrated overview and discussion of a vast inter-related West African culture complex that deserves and requires the kind of original, insightful treatment it receives here." —David Conrad Epic Traditions of Africa crosses boundaries of language, distance, and time to gather material from diverse African oral epic traditions. Stephen Belcher explores the rich past and poetic force of African epics and places them in historical and social, as well as artistic contexts. Colorful narratives from Central and West African traditions are illuminated along with texts that are more widely available to Western readers—the Mande Sunjata and the Bamana Segou. Belcher also takes up questions about European influences on African epic poetry and the possibility of mutual influence through out the genre. This lively and informative volume will inspire an appreciation for the distinctive qualities of this uniquely African form of verbal art.
