Au coeur du Congo / Congo Revisted

2019-04-24 Congo (Democratic Republic)

Author : Angelo Turconi
Release : 2019-04-24
Genre : Congo (Democratic Republic)
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Book Rating : 921/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Au coeur du Congo / Congo Revisted written by Angelo Turconi. This book was released on 2019-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent large format edition is a 'best of' of photographer Angelo Turconi. Congo, Culture and Traditions compiles his most beautiful pictures and unique footage of his beloved Congo shot over a period of over half a century. This book is a precious photo archive, but at the same time a tribute to the vitality and resilience of the Congolese people. Included are rare images of rituals and traditions that now definitely belong in the past. A giant country like Congo with its huge ethnic diversity will always remain an inexhaustible source of wonder and astonishment. In five chapters, Congo-expert Turconi dwells on the country's nature, the daily life, its people, Congo's art and culture and the country's economy. Eminent ethnologist and art historian Francois Neyt wrote the introductory texts to the chapters, while Prof. Dr. Isidore Ndaywel and Nziem elucidates on the selected photographs. SELLING POINT: A giant country like Congo with its huge ethnic diversity will always remain an inexhaustible source of wonder and astonishment. Congo-expert and photographer Angelo Turconi dwells on the country's nature, the daily life, its people, Congo's art and culture and its economy 150 colour images

Recalling the Belgian Congo

2000-09-01 History

Author : Marie-Bénédicte Dembour
Release : 2000-09-01
Genre : History
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Download or read book Recalling the Belgian Congo written by Marie-Bénédicte Dembour. This book was released on 2000-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the author embarked on her study, her aim was to approach former colonial officers with a view to analyzing processes of domination in the ex-Belgian Congo. However, after establishing a rapport with some of these officers, the author was soon forced to revise her initial assumptions, widely held in present-day Belgium: these officers were not the "baddies" she had expected to meet. Exploring the colonial experience through the respondents' memories resulted in a far more complex picture of the colonial situation than she had anticipated, again forcing her to question her original assumptions. This resulted not only in a more differentiated perspective on Belgian colonialist rule, but is also sensitized her as regards the question of anthropological understanding and of what constitutes historical fact. These two aspects of her work are reflected in this study that offers specific material on the way Belgian colonialism is remembered and reflects on its conditions of production, thus combining ethnographic analysis with a theoretical essay.

Religious Entanglements

2022-08-16 History

Author : David Maxwell
Release : 2022-08-16
Genre : History
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Download or read book Religious Entanglements written by David Maxwell. This book was released on 2022-08-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the leadership of William F. P. Burton and James Salter, the Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) grew from a simple faith movement founded in 1915 into one of the most successful classical Pentecostal missions in Africa, today boasting more than one million members in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Drawing on artifacts, images, documents, and interviews, David Maxwell examines the roles of missionaries and their African collaborators—the Luba-speaking peoples of southeast Katanga—in producing knowledge about Africa. Through the careful reconstruction of knowledge pathways, Maxwell brings into focus the role of Africans in shaping texts, collections, and images as well as in challenging and adapting Western-imported presuppositions and prejudices. Ultimately, Maxwell illustrates the mutually constitutive nature of discourses of identity in colonial Africa and reveals not only how the Luba shaped missionary research but also how these coproducers of knowledge constructed and critiqued custom and convened new ethnic communities. Making a significant intervention in the study of both the history of African Christianity and the cultural transformations effected by missionary encounters across the globe, Religious Entanglements excavates the subculture of African Pentecostalism, revealing its potentiality for radical sociocultural change.

No Mercy: a Journey to the Heart of the Congo

1997 Likouala (Congo : Region)

Author : Redmond O'Hanlon
Release : 1997
Genre : Likouala (Congo : Region)
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Congo, My Country

1966 Congo (Democratic Republic)

Author : Patrice Lumumba
Release : 1966
Genre : Congo (Democratic Republic)
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Download or read book Congo, My Country written by Patrice Lumumba. This book was released on 1966. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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