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Author : Charles H. Harvey
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781604770742
Set in Angola and the Congo, this biographical novel is based on a true story. The reader becomes immersed in the practical day-to-day implications of a world-view which includes a nearly inescapable web of witchcraft.
Author : Simon Bockie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Todd Ramón Ochoa
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780520256835
Summary: In this first-person account, Todd Ramón Ochoa explores Palo, a poorly-understood Kongo-inspired 'society of afflication' at the margins of Cuban popular religion. Narrated as an encounter with two teachers of Palo, the book unfolds on the outskirts of Havana.
Author : Gloria Chuku
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415972108
Extrait de amazon.com : "Among Africanists and feminists, the Igbo-speaking women of southeastern Nigeria are well known for their history of anti-colonial activism which was most demonstrated in the 1929 War against British Colonialism. Perplexed by the magnitude of the Women's War, the colonial government commissioned anthropologists/ethnographers to study the Igbo political system and the place of women in Igbo society. The primary motive was to have a better understanding of the Igbo in order to avoid a repeat of the Women's War. This study will analyze the complexity and flexibility of gender relations in Igbo society with emphasis on such major cultural zones as the Anioma, the Ngwa, the Onitsha, the Nsukka, and the Aro."
Author : Teresa N. Washington
Publisher : Oya's Tornado
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
“Blazes a new trail in Africana literary criticism by providing an insight into the soul and spirit of Africana womanhood.” --Anthonia Kalu, The Ohio State University, author of Women, Literature, and Development in Africa This is the revised and expanded edition of Teresa N. Washington's groundbreaking book Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations of Aje in Africana Literature. In Yoruba language and culture, Aje signifies both a phenomenal spiritual power and the human beings who exercise that power. Aje is the birthright of Africana women who are revered as the Gods of Society. While Africana men can have Aje, its owners and controllers are Africana women. Because it is an African female power, and due to its invisibility, ubiquity, and profundity, Aje is often maligned as witchcraft. However, as Teresa N. Washington reveals in Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts, Aje is central to the Yoruba ethos, worldview, and cosmology. Not only is it essential to human creation and artistic creativity, but as a force of justice and retribution, Aje is vital to social harmony and balance. Washington analyzes forms, figures, and forces of Aje in the Yoruba world, in the Caribbean Islands, in Latin America, and in African America. Washington's research reveals that with the exile and enslavement of millions of Africans, Aje became a global force and an essential ally in organizing insurrections, soothing shattered souls, and reminding the dispossessed of their inherent divinity. From her in-depth exploration of Aje in Pan-African history and orature, Washington guides readers through rich analyses of the symbolic, methodological, and spiritual manifestations of Aje that are central to important works by Africana writers but are rarely elucidated by Western criticism. Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts includes innovative readings of works by many Africana writers, including Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Ben Okri, Wole Soyinka, Jamaica Kincaid, and Ntozake Shange. This revised and expanded edition of Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts will appeal to scholars of Africana literature, African religion and philosophy, gender studies, and comparative literature. Devotees of Africana spiritual systems will find this book to be indispensable.
Author : CARLOS ANTONIO DE BOURBON-GALDIANO-MONTENEGRO
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-12
Category : Palo
ISBN : 9781105753909
Explore the authentic mysteries of the Afro-Caribbean religious traditions of Palo Mayombe, Palo Monte and Kimbisa in a very revealing book which includes the Congo religious history, Congo Spirits, Initiations, Spells & Rituals, Invocations, Prayers and Sacred spirit signatures of the Congo Spirits. This book explains in full detail how to prepare a Spiritual Cauldron more commonly known as "Caldero Espiritual" and how to prepare the Congo Spirit Lucero. This book was written as a "How To" book for initiated and non-initiated individuals.This is a great introduction book for individuals who would like to learn more about the Congo religious tradition as found and practiced in the Caribbean.
Author : Brian Morris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521852412
This important textbook provides a critical introduction to the social anthropology of religion, focusing on more recent classical ethnographies. Comprehensive, free of scholastic jargon, engaging, and comparative in approach, it covers all the major religious traditions that have been studied concretely by anthropologists - Shamanism, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity and its relation to African and Melanesian religions and contemporary Neopaganism. Eschewing a thematic approach and treating religion as a social institution and not simply as an ideology or symbolic system, the book follows the dual heritage of social anthropology in combining an interpretative understanding and sociological analysis. The book will appeal to all students of anthropology, whether established scholars or initiates to the discipline, as well as to students of the social sciences and religious studies, and for all those interested in comparative religion.
Author : Eze Obinna Onwuma LL.M
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781665504300
The history of Ukwa/Ngwa people Volume 1 represents the ultimate in-depth data of Ukwa/Ngwa people long walk to freedom nay, to capture political power in their political space. A factual inside account of the events and circumstances which had made this journey a tortuous one and brought it to scorn and despise mostly in its citadel commercial town of Aba. This is rendered in a vivid detail by the author blazing a trail which would, sooner or later, provoke reactions conveying confirmation, disputation, clarification or expansion of information as contained herein. In the potpourri of endless books written on Ukwa/Ngwa history, this book is no doubt unique in its most illuminating treatment of privileged information recapturing the historical genesis of the Ukwa/Ngwa origin, long trek to Aba and its attendant development which had elicited disproportionate feelings among sojourners.
Author : Diana Espírito Santo,Jack Hunter
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800730670
Exploring how technological apparatuses “capture” invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles are mattered into existence by human minds. Technological and scientific discourse has always been central to the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century spiritualist quest for legitimacy, but as this book shows, machines, people, and invisible beings are much more ontologically entangled in their definitions and constitution than we would expect. The book shows this entanglement through a series of contemporary case studies where the realm of the invisible arises through technological engagement, and where the paranormal intertwines with modern technology.
Author : William C. McGrew,Linda F. Marchant,Toshisada Nishida
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996-07-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521555361
The great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans) are our closest living relatives, sharing a common ancestor only five million years ago. We also share key features such as high intelligence, omnivorous diets, prolonged child-rearing and rich social lives. The great apes show a surprising diversity of adaptations, particularly in social life, ranging from the solitary life of orangutans, through patriarchy in gorillas to complex but different social organisations in bonobos and chimpanzees. As great apes are so close to humans, comparisons yield essential knowledge for modelling human evolutionary origins. Great Ape Societies provides comprehensive up-to-date syntheses of work on all four species, drawing on decades of international field work, zoo and laboratory studies. It will be essential reading for students and researchers in primatology, anthropology, psychology and human evolution.
Author : Sylvanus John Sodienye Cookey
Publisher : UGR publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Igbo (African people)
ISBN : 0954913809
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biodiversity conservation
ISBN : WISC:89030529143
Author : CARLOS ANTONIO DE BOURBON-GALDIANO-MONTENEGRO
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781105750939
Author : Knut Rio,Michelle MacCarthy,Ruy Blanes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319560687
This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia—where the popularity of charismatic Christianity can be linked to a revival and transformation of witchcraft. The volume demonstrates how the Holy Spirit has become an adversary to the reconfirmed presence of witches, demons, and sorcerers as manifestations of evil. We learn how this is articulated in spiritual warfare, in crusades, and in healing or witch-killing raids. The contributors highlight what happens to phenomena that people address as locally specific witchcraft or sorcery when re-molded within the universalist Pentecostal demonology, vocabulary, and confrontational methodology.
Author : CARLOS ANTONIO DE BOURBON-GALDIANO-MONTENEGRO
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781105770715
The following book contains information about the Spirits of the Fourth Greater Quimbanda Kingdom of the Afro-Brazilian religious tradition known as Quimbanda. These very powerful spiritual entities are more commonly known as the Aje Spirits. The Aje Spirits are invisible spiritual entities that coexists with humans here on Earth. It is believed that the Aje Spirits are powerful "Witches" that control all aspects of human destiny including such things as happiness, wealth, love, health and personal relationships. The Aje Spirits govern over the elements of Air, Fire, Water, Earth and Spirit. This very informative book tells how to spiritually align yourself with this very powerful energy through self-initiation.