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Author : Hans Cory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015024850771
Author : Hans Cory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Art
ISBN : MINN:319510022899462
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015007552998
Author : Robert Hazel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527542921
This two-volume publication offers an in-depth analysis of ophidian symbolism in Eastern Africa, while setting the topic within its regional and historical context: namely, with regards to the rest of Africa, ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, the Greek world, ancient Palestine, Arabia, India, and medieval and pre-Christian Europe. Through the ages, most of those areas have connected with Eastern Africa in a broad sense, where ophidian symbolism was as “rampant” and far-reaching, if not more so, as anywhere else on the continent, and perhaps in past civilisations. Much as in the wider context, snakes were held to be long-lived, closely related to holes, caverns, trees, and water, life and death, and credited with a liking for milk. Even though ophidian symbolism has always been developed out of the outstanding biological and ethological features of snakes, the process of symbolisation, which plays a crucial role in the elaboration of cultural systems and the shaping of human experience, was inevitably at work. This first volume deals with snakes as a zoological category; snake symbolism as perceived by encyclopaedists and psychologists; and ophidian symbolism as it occurred in ancient civilisations. It explores the traditional African scene in general with a view to set the scene for a more proximate baseline for comparison. The divide between animals and humans was porous, and snakes had a more or less equal footing in both the animal realm and the spiritual world. Key features of snake symbolism in traditional Eastern Africa are then examined in detail, especially phantasmagorical snakes, the rainbow serpent, snake-totems, and snake-related witches and ritual leaders, among others. In Eastern Africa, the meanings attributed to snakes were multifaceted and paradoxical. Overall, the two volumes of this publication show that African snake symbolism broadly echoed the diverse representations of ancient civilisations. The widely acknowledged assimilation of snakes to death and Evil is therefore unrepresentative, both historically and culturally.
Author : Allison Butler Herrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Tanzania
ISBN : UIUC:30112101041553
Author : Eugene C. Burt
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Art
ISBN : 025317225X
"... a landmark in the academic study of African art.... a remarkably useful bibliography... warmly recommended." --African Arts "... this workmanlike compilation... [is] admirable." --Choice
Author : Anders Kaliff
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443858762
Why do traditions disappear? How is the disappearance of tradition also a vehicle for social change and re-inventions of practices and new traditions? Using case studies from one Sukuma area along the southern shores of Lake Victoria in Tanzania, global processes of how religions work in practice are analysed by focusing on rainmaking, witchcraft and Christianity. Traditionally, Sukuma society was culturally and cosmologically structured around the chief, the ancestors and rainmaking. Everything was dependent upon the rain. Rainmaking as a ritual practice has disappeared and ancestral propitiations are declining, while, at the same time, Christianity is spreading and witchcraft and witch killings are increasing. Although Christianity as a religion may provide answers and hopes for life after death, the religion provides few solutions in the here and now when it comes to poverty and suffering; problems and challenges that have to be solved. Witchcraft, on the other hand, does, or is believed to do so – and the increase in witchcraft is analysed in relation to the impacts of more than a century of globalisation from the missionaries and colonizers onwards. With the declining ancestral tradition, witchcraft and Christianity as religious practices supplement each other in the ways they are believed to work in providing answers, solutions or divine interferences in different realms; this world and the Otherworld. Offering an approach going beyond structural functionalism on different premises, the book’s focus on religion at work will facilitate new understandings of how to study religion as it is perceived and believed in practice.
Author : Norman N. Miller
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438443591
Encounters with Witchcraft is a personal story of a young man's fascination with African witchcraft discovered first in a trek across East Africa and the Congo. The story unfolds over four decades during the author's long residence in and many trips to Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. As a field researcher he learns from villagers what it is like to live with witches, and how witches are seen through African eyes. His teachers are healers, cult leaders, witch-hunters and self-proclaimed "witches" as well as policemen, politicians and judges. A key figure is Mohammadi Lupanda, a frail village woman whose only child has died years before. In her dreams, however, she believes the little girl is not dead, but only lost in the fields. Mohammadi is discovered wandering at night, wailing and calling out for the child. Her neighbors are terror-stricken and she is quickly brought to a village trial and banished as a witch. The author is able to watch and listen to the proceedings and later investigate the deeper story. He discovers mysteries about Mohammadi that are only solved when he returns to the village three decades later. Today, witch-hunting and witchcraft-related crimes are found in more than seventy developing countries. Epidemics of violence against alleged witches, mainly women, but including elders of both genders, and even children is on the increase in some parts of the world. Witchcraft beliefs may lie behind vigilante murders, political assassinations, revenge killings and commercial murders for human body parts. Through African voices the author addresses key questions. Do witchcraft powers exist? Why does witchcraft persist? What are its historic roots? Why is witchcraft-based violence so often found within families? Does witchcraft serve as a hidden legal and political system, a mafia-like under-government? The author holds up a mirror for us to think about religious beliefs in our own experience that rely heavily on myth and superstition.
Author : Mama Zogbé
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780615179360
This first definitive work on the predomiance of this powerful African deity throughout the ancient world has quickly become a "cult" classic. The evolution of Mami Wata in establishing, shaping and expanding the spiritual and sacerdotal foundation of world religion, reveals also the lost but glorious past of African women's spirituality. Hailed as the new "bible" on the history of African women, this comprehensive well-researched body of work will benefit academics, students, and all who are seeking to fill the missing void in world religious and cultural history. Totaling over 800 pages, it is reccomended that both heavily illustrated (Volumes I & II) be purchased as a set.
Author : James H. Charlesworth
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300142730
The serpent of ancient times was more often associated with positive attributes like healing and eternal life than it was with negative meanings. This groundbreaking book explores in plentiful detail the symbol of the serpent from 40,000 BCE to the present, and from diverse regions in the world. In doing so it emphasizes the creativity of the biblical authors' use of symbols and argues that we must today reexamine our own archetypal conceptions with comparable creativity.--From publisher description.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015009757850
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1238 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UCAL:$B230487
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Best books
ISBN : UOM:39015036923673
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : American literature
ISBN : OSU:32435019978410
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015086782656
