Villages Of West Africa

Author : Steven House,Cathi House
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0764354817

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Villages of West Africa by Steven House,Cathi House Pdf

Art and especially architecture are often seen as the exclusive realm of formally trained experts. Award-winning architects Steven and Cathi House explore the other side of that reality in a part of the world that has been at the crossroads of history for thousands of years. With more than 500 photographs and insightful commentary, they reveal the remarkable beauty of the people, land, villages, textiles, and vernacular architecture across seven countries of West Africa, situated between the Sahara Desert and Atlantic Ocean. The book celebrates the artisanship of tribal people who use building methods that are both practical and ingenious and that respond not just to local climate, materials, and topography, but also to the needs of the inhabitants with poetic insight, creating environments that are stimulating and sustainable. With their clarity, function, and beauty, these villages are living models of what community life can be.

Author : Charles Piot
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226189833

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Remotely Global by Charles Piot Pdf

At first glance, the remote villages of the Kabre people of northern Togo appear to have all the trappings of a classic "out of the way" African culture—subsistence farming, straw-roofed houses, and rituals to the spirits and ancestors. Arguing that village life is in fact an effect of the modern and the global, Charles Piot suggests that Kabre culture is shaped as much by colonial and postcolonial history as by anything "indigenous" or local. Through analyses of everyday and ceremonial social practices, Piot illustrates the intertwining of modernity with tradition and of the local with the national and global. In a striking example of the appropriation of tradition by the state, Togo's Kabre president regularly flies to the region in his helicopter to witness male initiation ceremonies. Confounding both anthropological theorizations and the State Department's stereotyped images of African village life, Remotely Global aims to rethink Euroamerican theories that fail to come to terms with the fluidity of everyday relations in a society where persons and things are forever in motion.

Author : Christopher R. DeCorse
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0718502477

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West Africa During the Atlantic Slave Trade by Christopher R. DeCorse Pdf

This volume surveys archaeological data from West Africa, examining sites from the Senegambia to the Cameroon. The focus is on the archaeological record of the past 500 years, a period that witnessed dramatic transformations in African political and social systems, as well as the consequences of European expansion, the advent of the Atlantic slave trave, and the expansion of Islamic polities in the West African Sahel. While historians have examined many aspects of this period, the written record provides only limited insight into the history and development of many areas. Archaeology has the potential to provide unique information not accessible through documentary records or oral traditions. Thus, the material record offers the most valuable means of evaluating both change and continuity in African societies over the past 500 years.The geographical and topical scope of this volume is extremely timely. Historical archaeology, particularly aspects dealing with European interactions with indigenous populations, is an area that has received increasing attention over the past decade. There has also been a growing interest in studies of Africa and the African diaspora. This volume, the first to draw together archaeological syntheses of various parts of West Africa, will be an important resource for West Africanists and all researchers interested in the indigenous response to European expansion, as well as for those examining African continuitites in the Americas.>

Author : J. E. Sumberg,K. Cassaday
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Animal industry
ISBN : 9290530588

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Sheep and Goats in Humid West Africa by J. E. Sumberg,K. Cassaday Pdf

Author : Martin A. Klein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521596785

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Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa by Martin A. Klein Pdf

Martin Klein's book is a history of slaves during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in three former French colonies. It investigates the changing nature of local slavery over time, and the evolving French attitudes towards it, through the phases of trade, conquest and colonial rule. The heart of the study focuses on the period between 1876 and 1922, when a French army composed largely of slave soldiers took massive numbers of slaves in the interior, while in areas near the coast, hesitant actions were taken against slave-raiding, trading and use. After 1900, the French withdrew state support of slavery, and as many as a million slaves left their masters. A second exodus occurred after World War I, when soldiers of slave origin returned home. The renegotiation of relationships between those who remained and their masters carries the story into the contemporary world.

Author : Mahir Şaul,Patrick Royer
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821441183

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West African Challenge to Empire by Mahir Şaul,Patrick Royer Pdf

West African Challenge to Empire examines the anticolonial war in the Volta and Bani region in 1915–16. It was the largest challenge that the French ever faced in their West African colonial empire, and one of the largest armed oppositions to colonialism anywhere in Africa. How such a movement could be organized in the face of European technological superiority despite the fact that this region is generally described as having consisted of rival villages and descent groups is a puzzle. In this jointly written book the two authors provide a detailed political and military history of this event based on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork. Using cultural and sociological analysis, it probes the origins of the movement, its internal organization, its strategy, and the reasons for its initial success and why it spread. In 2001 the authors of West African Challenge to Empire were awarded the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology by the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Author : Ann Grifalconi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1986-05-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015012183961

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The Village of Round and Square Houses by Ann Grifalconi Pdf

A young girl from the West African village of Tos movingly tells how the men came to live in square houses and the women in round ones.

Author : Mary Kingsley
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9783736804517

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Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley Pdf

Mary Henrietta Kingsley was an English ethnographic and scientific writer and explorer whose travels throughout West Africa and resulting work helped shape European perceptions of African cultures and British imperialism. After a preliminary visit to the Canary Islands, Kingsley decided to travel to the west coast of Africa. The only non-African women who regularly embarked on (often dangerous) journeys to Africa were usually the wives of missionaries, government officials, or explorers. Exploration and adventure were not seen as fitting roles for women in the Victorian era. Yet, when Mary Kingsley's invalid parents died within six weeks of each other, she followed in her explorer father's footsteps and traveled to Africa against her society's every convention. Here is her lively and witty account of that journey, an immediate bestseller when it first came out in 1897 and every bit as gripping today. Kingsley's complicated and indomitable character shines through in each sentence, as she describes hacking, marching, and climbing her way through the continent. After more than a century, she remains a feminist icon and a most remarkable woman.

Author : Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0486424901

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Travels in West Africa by Mary Henrietta Kingsley Pdf

A sheltered Victorian spinster trades her mundane middle-class existence in the 1890s for an incredible expedition in the Congo. Recounted with an infectious good humor, the journey draws her into the diverse customs and beliefs of the area, its natural history, and many issues of the day. 42 halftones.

Author : Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : OSU:32435007183130

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Travels in West Africa by Mary Henrietta Kingsley Pdf

Author : Yukio Futagawa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 4871403661

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Villages and Towns by Yukio Futagawa Pdf

Author : M.M. Drymon PhD
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : South Portland (Me.)
ISBN : 9781387421503

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A Forgotten Landscape: How A Place Called Crockett's Corner Became The Maine Mall by M.M. Drymon PhD Pdf

Author : Mary H. Kingsley
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752356014

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Travels in West Africa (Congo Francaise, Corisco and Cameroons ) by Mary H. Kingsley Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Travels in West Africa (Congo Francaise, Corisco and Cameroons ) by Mary H. Kingsley

Author : Thomas S. Githens,Thomas Stotesbury Githens,Carroll E. Wood, Jr.
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1943-01-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 0686240871

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The Food Resources of Africa by Thomas S. Githens,Thomas Stotesbury Githens,Carroll E. Wood, Jr. Pdf

Published jointly with the Committee on African Affairs under the editorship of H. A. Wieschhoff, these remaining volumes from the series Africa Handbooks describe the conditions and significant issues facing the continent during and immediately following World War II. Africa Handbooks 3

Author : Ricard Morén-Alegret,Dawid Wladyka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137586216

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International Immigration, Integration and Sustainability in Small Towns and Villages by Ricard Morén-Alegret,Dawid Wladyka Pdf

This book brings small places to the main stage in an exploration of the nature of immigration in rural areas and small towns in Europe. Extending recent efforts to study migration at a sub-national scale, the authors focus their analysis on non-metropolitan areas to consider how globalisation and modernisation processes are experienced at a local level. Morén-Alegret and Wladyka weave themes of livelihood, social participation, justice and equity into human and planetary sustainability debates, drawing on quantitative population data as well as qualitative information on challenges for rural and small town sustainability in four different European countries (Portugal, France, Spain and England). Highlighting the interlinked relationship between rural sustainability, migration and ethnic diversity, this research is a valuable resource for policy-makers and academics alike, with far-reaching implications across geography, sociology, political science, anthropology and environmental sciences.