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Author : Linda Jacobs Altman
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781464503658
"Read about the Yoruban creation myth, How Anansi got God's Stories, and five other important African myths"--Provided by publisher
Author : Jean-Loïc Le Quellec
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art, Prehistoric
ISBN : UCSC:32106017794865
The only book of its kind to examine cave art throughout Africa. The paintings and engravings discovered in African caves are amazing works of art that hold clues to understanding the history of humankind.
Author : James Rooks
Publisher : Self Publisher
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9788835869726
The extensive history of Africa provides us with a topic of curiosity and novelty. For this reason, this guide has been composed to help you understand some of the cultural anecdotes as well as the religious and traditional tales that have been told to previous generations. When we dive into some background information, you will have a better grasp of the context of the four intense stories that follow. Enjoy this short, simple yet profound compilation of African myths.
Author : Irene Dea Collier
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781464503672
"Read how Panku created the world and Nuwa created people, the grand archer Yi, and seven other important Chinese myths"--Provided by publisher
Author : Catherine Bernard
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781464503665
"Read about the Tuatha Dé Danaan, The Milesian Invasion, Cuchulainn and Emer, and four other important Celtic myths"--Provided by publisher.
Author : James Rooks
Publisher : Self Publisher
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9788835869740
This is a 2-book combo, which has the following titles: Book 1: The Africans have a long history, although not everything has been preserved in writing. And many folklore stories have been passed on through generations. The African tribes vary as much as the colors of the rainbow. It is for these reasons, and entertainment as well, that this book has been put together. It entails several mythological tales that refer to African gods, creatures, and entities. Some of these have morals. Others are symbolic of one thing or another. All in all, this is a short but fun and intriguing book about African culture and ancient religions from that region. Book 2: The extensive history of Africa provides us with a topic of curiosity and novelty. For this reason, this guide has been composed to help you understand some of the cultural anecdotes as well as the religious and traditional tales that have been told to previous generations. When we dive into some background information, you will have a better grasp of the context of the four intense stories that follow. Enjoy this short, simple yet profound compilation of African myths.
Author : Michael A. Schuman
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781464503702
"Read about the creation of people according to the Popol Vuh, the origin of the sun, moon, world, music, and four other important myths"--Provided by publisher
Author : Karen Bornemann Spies
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781464503696
From mere mortals facing the gods, to brave men and women taking on the most difficult of challenges, Greek mythology is full of exciting and dangerous adventure. These myths reflect the actions, problems, and feelings that are common to all human beings. In HEROES IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY ROCK!, author Karen Bomemann Spies concentrates on the most well-known of the heroes, including Heracles, Atalanta, and Jason and the Argonauts. She explores the relationship between ancient Greek hero myths and modern-day fairy tales. Expert commentary and question-and-answer sections supplement each story.
Author : Michelle M. Houle
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781464503689
"Read about the war between the Titans and the Olympians, Pandora's box, Demeter and Persephone, and six other myths"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Peter Mitchell,Paul Lane
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191626159
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.
Author : David Lewis-Williams,Sam Challis
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780500770467
Goes to the heart of contemporary arguments about the "primitive" and the "modern" minds, and draws new social, anthropological, and ethnographic conclusions about the nature of ancient societies. How did ancient peoples—those living before written records—think? Were their thinking patterns fundamentally different from ours today? Researchers over the years have certainly believed so. Along with the Aborigines of Australia, the indigenous San people of southern Africa—among the last hunter-gatherer societies on Earth—became iconic representatives of all our distant ancestors and were viewed as either irrational fantasists or childlike, highly spiritual conservationists. Since the 1960s a new wave of research among the San and their world-famous rock art has overturned these misconceived ideas. Here, the great authority David Lewis-Williams and his colleague Sam Challis reveal how analysis of the rock paintings and engravings can be made to yield vital insights into San beliefs and ways of thought. This is possible because we possess comprehensive transcriptions, made in the nineteenth century, of interviews with San informants who were shown copies of the art and gave their interpretations of it. Using the analogy of the Rosetta Stone, the authors move back and forth between these San texts and the rock art, teasing out the subtle meanings behind both. The picture that emerges is very different from past analysis: this art is not a naive narrative of daily life but rather is imbued with power and religious depth.
Author : Jim Ollhoff
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781617588921
Who is Chuku? What is Unkulunkulu? Why are myths so important in our lives? Myths are a rich source of history. People use them to make sense of our world. Even before myths were written down, people told and retold the stories of the gods and goddesses of their homeland. Readers of African Mythology will learn the history of myths, as well as their deeper meaning. From Cagn of the San people of the Kalahari Desert to Mboom of the Kuba people of central Africa, this book helps kids understand the myths that shape and direct people's lives. Abdo & Daughters is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : Clyde W. Ford
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780553378689
In this remarkable book, Clyde Ford restores to us the lost treasure of African mythology, bringing to life the ancient tales and showing why they matter so much to us today. African myths convey the perennial wisdom of humanity: the creation of the world, the hero's journey, our relationship with nature, death, and resurrection. From the Ashanti comes the moving account of the grief-stricken Kwasi Benefo's journey to the underworld to seek his beloved wives. From Uganda we learn of the legendary Kintu, who won the love of a goddess and created a nation from a handful of isolated clans. The Congo's epic hero Mwindo is the sacred warrior who shows us the path each person must travel to discover his true destiny. These and other important African myths show us the history of African Americans in a new light--as a hero's journey, a courageous passage to a hard-won victory. The Hero with an African Face enriches us all by restoring this vital tradition to the world.
Author : Bruno David,Ian J. McNiven
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190844950
Rock art is one of the most visible and geographically widespread of cultural expressions, and it spans much of the period of our species' existence. Rock art also provides rare and often unique insights into the minds and visually creative capacities of our ancestors and how selected rock outcrops with distinctive images were used to construct symbolic landscapes and shape worldviews. Equally important, rock art is often central to the expression of and engagement with spiritual entities and forces, and in all these dimensions it signals the diversity of cultural practices, across place and through time. Over the past 150 years, archaeologists have studied ancient arts on rock surfaces, both out in the open and within caves and rock shelters, and social anthropologists have revealed how people today use art in their daily lives. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art showcases examples of such research from around the world and across a broad range of cultural contexts, giving a sense of the art's regional variability, its antiquity, and how it is meaningful to people in the recent past and today - including how we have ourselves tended to make sense of the art of others, replete with our own preconceptions. It reviews past, present, and emerging theoretical approaches to rock art investigation and presents new, cutting-edge methods of rock art analysis for the student and professional researcher alike.
Author : Natalie R. Franklin,Matthias Strecker
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782975885
This is the third in the five-yearly series of surveys of what is happening in rock art studies around the world. As always, the texts reflect something of the great differences in approach and emphasis that exist in different regions. The volume presents examples from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the New World. During the period in question, 1999 to 2004, there have been few major events, although in the field of Pleistocene art many new discoveries have been made, and a new country added to the select list of those with Ice Age cave art. Some regions such as North Africa and the former USSR have seen a tremendous amount of activity, focusing not only on recording but also on chronology, and the conservation of sites. With the global increase of tourism, the management of rock art sites that are accessible to the public is a theme of ever-growing importance.