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Author : William Holman Bentley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
ISBN : UVA:X000432349
Author : William Holman Bentley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Africa, Central
ISBN : HARVARD:HXDQZI
Author : Simon Bockie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0253315646
"[Bockie's] description of Kongo culture is vivid, beautifullyclear, and absolutely authentic, as only a native could make it.... I don't know ofanything of its kind that is both as good, ethnographically, and asreadable." -- Wyatt MacGaffey "Simon Bockie haswritten an engaging, often personal account of the views and behaviors surroundingdeath in his own society, the Kongo of Lower Zaire, northern Angola, and theCongo." -- Cahiers d'Etudes africaines ..". excellentbook of Kongo religious life and thought... " --Religion "It is a book that is remarkably well written, bothfor its readability and for its explanatory value.... the book is a superb startingplace for understanding Kongo religion, and will work as an introduction to Africanreligion in general as well." -- International Journal of African HistoricalStudies ..". an excellent introduction for anyone seeking tounderstand Kongo traditional culture and thought." --Oshun Rich in anecdote and case histories, Death and the InvisiblePowers is a personal account of the spiritual life of the Kongo people. It describesthe ancient traditions that nourish a culture whose name symbolizes the heart ofCentral Africa.
Author : W. Holman Bentley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3743334461
Life on the Kongo is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author : Cécile Fromont
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271094106
Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans of Kongo and Angola missions, composed between 1650 and 1750 for the training of future missionaries. These “practical guides” present the intricacies of the natural, social, and religious environment of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century west-central Africa and outline the primarily visual catechization methods the friars devised for the region. Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola brings this overlooked visual corpus to public and scholarly attention. This beautifully illustrated book includes full-color reproductions of all the images in the atlas, in conjunction with rarely seen related material gathered from collections and archives around the world. Taking a bold new approach to the study of early modern global interactions, art historian Cécile Fromont demonstrates how visual creations such as the Capuchin vignettes, though European in form and crafstmanship, emerged not from a single perspective but rather from cross-cultural interaction. Fromont models a fresh way to think about images created across cultures, highlighting the formative role that cultural encounter itself played in their conception, execution, and modes of operation. Centering Africa and Africans, and with ramifications on four continents, Fromont’s decolonial history profoundly transforms our understanding of the early modern world. It will be of substantial interest to specialists in early modern studies, art history, and religion.
Author : Kimbwandènde Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau
Publisher : Athelia Henrietta Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : IND:30000079229245
"Life is fundamentally a process of perpetual and mutual communication; and to communicate is to emit and to receive waves and radiations (minika ye minienie). This process of, receiving and releasing or passing them on (tambula ye tambikisa) is the key to human beings game of survival. A person is perpetually bathed by radiations' weight, (zitu kia minienie). The weight (zitu/demo) of radiations may have a negative as well as positive impact on any tiny being, for example a person who represents the most vibrating: "kolo" (knot) of relationships." "The following expressions are very common among the Bantu, in general, and among the Kongo in particular, which prove to us the antiquity of these concepts in the African continent; Our businesses are waved/shaken; our health is waved/shaken; what we possess is waved/shaken; the communities are waved/shaken: Where are these (negative) waves coming from (Salu bieto bieti nikunwa; mavimpi nikunwa; biltuvwidi nikunwa; makanda nikunwa: Kwe kutukanga minika miami)?" "For the Bantu, a person lives and moves within an ocean of waves/radiations. One is sensitive or immune to them. To be sensitive to waves is to be able to react negatively or positively to those waves/forces. But to be immune to surrounding waves/forces, is to be less reactive to them or not at all. These differences account for varying degrees in the process of knowing/learning among individuals" --BOOK Cover.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0461680793
Author : Alisa LaGamma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588395757
A fascinating account of the effects of turbulent history on one of Africa’s most storied kingdoms, Kongo: Power and Majesty presents over 170 works of art from the Kingdom of Kongo (an area that includes present-day Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola). The book covers 400 years of Kongolese culture, from the fifteenth century, when Portuguese, Dutch, and Italian merchants and missionaries brought Christianity to the region, to the nineteenth, when engagement with Europe had turned to colonial incursion and the kingdom dissolved under the pressures of displacement, civil war, and the devastation of the slave trade. The works of art—which range from depictions of European iconography rendered in powerful, indigenous forms to fearsome minkondi, or power figures—serve as an assertion of enduring majesty in the face of upheaval, and richly illustrate the book’s powerful thesis.
Author : John H. Weeks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Congo (Brazzaville)
ISBN : UOM:39015012334531
Author : Linda M. Heywood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0521002788
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Author : W. Holman Bentley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1330616367
Excerpt from Life on the Congo About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : W Holman 1855-1905 Bentley
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1018570098
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Author : Cécile Fromont
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781469618722
Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, Cecile Fromont examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture and traces its development across four centuries marked by war, the Atlantic slave trade, and, finally, the rise of nineteenth-century European colonialism. By offering an extensive analysis of the religious, political, and artistic innovations through which the Kongo embraced Christianity, Fromont approaches the country's conversion as a dynamic process that unfolded across centuries. The African kingdom's elite independently and gradually intertwined old and new, local and foreign religious thought, political concepts, and visual forms to mold a novel and constantly evolving Kongo Christian worldview. Fromont sheds light on the cross-cultural exchanges between Africa, Europe, and Latin America that shaped the early modern world, and she outlines the religious, artistic, and social background of the countless men and women displaced by the slave trade from central Africa to all corners of the Atlantic world.
Author : John H. Weeks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Baptists
ISBN : WISC:89006603864
Author : Koen Bostoen,Inge Brinkman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108474184
A unique and forward-thinking book that sheds new light on the origins, dynamics, and cosmopolitan culture of the Kongo Kingdom from a cross-disciplinary perspective.
