Astonishment And Power

Author : National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015026904402

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Astonishment and Power by National Museum of African Art (U.S.) Pdf

"Bringing together the minkisi tradition of the Kongo peoples of Central Africa and the art of Renée Stout, "Atonishment & Power" explores a complex African visual tradition and its resonance in the work of a contemporary African-American woman artist. Minkisi, as described by Wyatt MacGaffey, are figures or operative complexes made from natural and man-made materials are intended as containers for powerful medicines. Often visually impressive, minkisi are invoked to accomplish various purposes, both to heal and to harm. In discussing minkisi, MacGaffey includes numerous early-20th-century commentaries written by young Kongo men. As Michael Harris reveals, the art of Renée Stout incorporates the forms and conceptual qualities of Kongo minkisi. The inspiration for her work derives from her personal memories and her deep interest in minkisi and African beliefs. Like minkisi, Stout's work sits at a crossroads--of the sacred and the secular, the West and Africa. Both the Kongo people and Renée Stout are masters at creating works of astonishment and power, invocation and art."--Back cover.

Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 066425134X

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Abiding Astonishment by Walter Brueggemann Pdf

This examination of the "Psalms of Historical Recital" reviews this portion of scripture's social-political intention and function. Focusing on Psalms 78, 105, 106, and 136, Brueggemann considers these psalms on their own terms and then applies them to the areas of modernity and marginality.

Author : Charles de Brosses,Rosalind C. Morris,Daniel H. Leonard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226464756

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The Returns of Fetishism by Charles de Brosses,Rosalind C. Morris,Daniel H. Leonard Pdf

"Fetishism (supposing that it existed)": a preface to the translation of Charles de Brosses's Transgression / Rosalind C. Morris -- Introduction: fetishism, figurism, and myths of enlightenment / Daniel H. Leonard -- A note on the translation / Daniel H. Leonard -- On the worship of fetish gods; or, a parallel of the ancient religion of Egypt with the present religion of Nigritia / Charles de Brosses ; translated by Daniel H. Leonard -- After De Brosses: fetishism, translation, comparativism, critique / Rosalind C. Morris -- A fetiche is a fetiche: no knowledge without difference of the word: rereading De Brosses -- Excursus: recontextualizing De Brosses, with Pietz in and out of Africa -- Re Kant and the good fetishists among us -- Hegel: back to the heart of darkness -- Fetishism against itself; or, Marx's two fetishisms -- The great fetish; or, the fetishism of the one -- Freud and the return to the dark continent: the other fetish -- Conjuncture: Freud and Marx, via Lacan -- Anthropology's fetishism: the custodianship of reality -- Fetishism reanimated: surrealism, ethnography, and the war against decay -- Deconstruction's fetish: undecidable, or the mark of Hegel -- Rehistoricizing generalized fetishism: the era of objects -- Anthropological redux: the reality of fetishism -- The fetish is dead, long live fetishism

Author : Ivo Strecker,Markus Verne
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857459367

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Astonishment and Evocation by Ivo Strecker,Markus Verne Pdf

All societies are shaped by arts, media, and other persuasive practices that can awe, captivate, enchant or otherwise seem to cast a spell on the audience. Likewise, scholarship itself often is driven by a sense of wonder and a willingness to be open to what lies beyond the obvious. This book broadens and deepens this perspective. Inspired by Stephen Tyler’s view of ethnography as an art of evocation, international scholars from the fields of aesthetics, anthropology, and rhetoric explore the spellbinding power of elusive meanings as people experience them in daily life and while gazing at works of art, watching films or studying other cultures. The book is divided into three parts covering the evocative power of visual art, the immersion in ritual and performance, and the reading, writing, and interpretation of texts. Taken as a whole, the contributions to the book demonstrate how astonishment and evocation deserve an important place in the conceptual repertoire of the human sciences.

Author : Wyatt MacGaffey
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253336988

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Kongo Political Culture by Wyatt MacGaffey Pdf

Lutete devoted much of his attention to aspects of Kongo ritual and religious belief, including minkisi and the rituals for the installation of chiefs. The original text of what he had to say about chiefship is printed, with translation notes. The work of other informants is also used."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Meša Selimović
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0810117134

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The Fortress by Meša Selimović Pdf

The Fortress is one of the most significant and fascinating novels to come out of the former Yugoslavia. Ahmet Shabo returns home to eighteenth-century Sarajevo from the war in Russia, numbed by the death in battle or suicide of nearly his entire military unit. In time he overcomes the anguish of war, only to find that he has emerged a reflective and contemplative man in a society that does not value, and will not tolerate, the subversive implications of these qualities.

Author : Shannen Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89053530127

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Minkisi Do Not Die by Shannen Hill Pdf

Author : Gareth Williams
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823289905

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Infrapolitical Passages by Gareth Williams Pdf

This book makes a case for infrapolitics as an enactment of intellectual responsibility in the face of a tumultuous world of war and of technological value extraction on a planetary scale. Infrapolitical Passages proposes to clear a way through some of the dominant political determinations and violent symptoms of contemporary globalization. In doing so, Gareth Williams makes a case for infrapolitics as an enactment of intellectual responsibility in the face of a tumultuous world of war and of technological value extraction on a planetary scale. The book offers a theory of globalization as a gigantic, directionless crisis in humanity’s symbolic organization, as well as a theory of global economic warfare as the very positing of directionlessness and, at the same time, facticity. Williams’s infrapolitics stands at a distance from the biopolitical, which it understands as domination presenting itself as the production of specific forms of subjectivity in the face of the commodity. The subsequent obscuring of being signals the need to circumvent the instrumentalization of life as subordination to the metaphysics of subjectivity, representation, and politics. Infrapolitical Passages works to confront that which is unavailable in subjectivity and representation, opening a way for facticity in the age of globalization in order to make room for the infrapolitical question for existence.

Author : Francis Andrew March
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1502 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129721804

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March's Thesaurus Dictionary by Francis Andrew March Pdf

Author : Gwynne Dyer
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307361691

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Canada in the Great Power Game: 1914-2014 by Gwynne Dyer Pdf

Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014 is a serious contemplation of what it means to engage in major world conflicts, and the price we pay when we do. The First World War was Canada's baptism of fire, or at least the only one that people now remember. (Montrealers in 1776 or Torontonians in 1814 would have taken a different view.) From 1914 to 1918, after a century of peace, Canadians were plunged back into the old world of great power rivalries and great wars. So was everybody else, but Canadians were volunteers. We didn't have to fight, but we chose to, out of loyalty to ideas and institutions that today many of us no longer believe in. And we have been doing the same thing ever since, although we haven't quite given up on the latest set of ideas and institutions yet. In Canada in the Great Power Game, Gwynne Dyer moves back and forth between the seminal event, the First World War, and all the later conflicts that Canada chose to fight in. He draws parallels between these conflicts, with the same idealism among the young soldiers, and the same deeply conflicted emotions among the survivors, surfacing time and again in every war right down to Afghanistan. And in each case, the same arguments pro and con arise—mostly from people who are a long, safe way from the killing grounds—for every one of those "wars of choice." Echoing throughout the book are the voices of the people who lived through the wars: the veterans, the politicians, the historians, the eyewitnesses. And Dyer takes a number of so-called excursions from his historical account, in which he revisits the events and puts them in context, pausing to ask such questions as "What if we hadn't fought Hitler?" and "Is war written in our genes?" This entertaining and provocative book casts an unsparing eye over what happens when Canada and the great powers get in the war business, illuminating much about how we see ourselves on the world stage.

Author : James McCosh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Conscience
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011582335

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Psychology, the Motive Powers by James McCosh Pdf

"In this volume, I unfold the characteristics of the motive powers, as they are called the orective, the appetent, the impulsive powers; the feelings, the sentiments, the affections, the heart, as distinguished from the Gnostic, the cognitive, the intellect, the understanding, the reason, the head. These motive powers fall under three heads: the emotions, the conscience, the will. It is not to be understood that these are unconnected with each other, or with the cognitive; emotions contain an idea which is cognitive. The conscience may be regarded as combining characteristics of each of the two grand classes; being cognitive as discerning good and evil, and motive as leading to action; the will has to use the other powers as going on to action. Emotion occupies more room than the other two in this treatise, inasmuch as its operations are more varied, and as the account usually given of it (so it appears to me) is more defective"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)

Author : Alonzo Eliot Newton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015072243903

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The Modern Bethesda by Alonzo Eliot Newton Pdf

The Modern Bethesda by Alonzo Eliot Newton, first published in 1879, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124236089

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Missionaries and Ethnography by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNF:CF000639564

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The Modern Bethesda, Or The Gift of Healing Restored Being Some Account of the Life and Labors of Dr. J. R. Newton by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022901078

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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with a biographical and critical introduction, by Henry Rogers, and portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds by Edmund Burke Pdf