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  • Singing with the Dogon Prophet

    par Walter E.A. van Beek, Oumarou S. Ongoiba, Atimè D. Saye ...
    In the Dogon funeral proceedings, a major song cycle called baja ni is performed in a session of at least seven hours. The texts of the chants are attributed to a legendary figure called Abir?, who as a blind singer in the nineteenth century roamed the heartland of the Dogon. The baja ni songs have escaped scholarly attention thus far. Singing with the Dogon Prophet by Walter E.A. van Beek, ... En savoir plus

    $120.99 CAD

  • The Transmission of Kapsiki-Higi Folktales over Two Generations

    Tales That Come, Tales That Go

    par Walter E.A. van Beek ...
    Collections series History (R0)
    This study on Kapsiki-Higi tales compares two corpuses of stories collected over two generations. In this oral setting, folktales appear much more dynamic than usually assumed, depending on genre, performance and the memory characteristics of the tales themselves. In northeastern Nigeria the author collected these tales twice with a time gap of two generations, in order to assess the dynamics of ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Empires of the Sea

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    In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, despatched an invasion fleet to the island of Rhodes. This was the opening shot in an epic struggle between rival empires and faiths, and the ensuing battle for control of the Mediterranean would last sixty years.Empires of the Sea tells the story of this great contest. It is a fast-paced tale of spiralling ... En savoir plus

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  • Collection Of African Religion Volume 1

    par NETLANCERS INC ...
    Collection Of African Religion Volume 1This is an excellent exploration and analysis of African Religious thoughts and practices. The author's expositions are detailed, especially when speaking about the usually more obscure African societies. What's extremely interesting is the logic behind the practices such as (before entering 'rites of passage') leaving a child in the wilderness temporarily in ... En savoir plus

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  • Mandela

    A Critical Life

    par Tom Lodge ...
    Nelson Mandela, the first African politician to acquire a world following, remains in the 21st century an iconic figure. But what are the sources of his almost mythic appeal? And to what extent did Mandela self-consciously create the status of political hero that he now enjoys? This new and highly revealing biography examines these questions in detail for the first time. Drawing on a range of ... En savoir plus

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  • In My Father's House

    Africa in the Philosophy of Culture

    par Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many racially-charged images that have burst across our television screens in the last year alone, images that show that for all our complacent ... En savoir plus

    $21.59 CAD

  • Imagining Serengeti

    A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present

    par Jan Bender Shetler ...
    Collections Livre 6 - New African Histories
    Many students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge. One of the most common is that of Africa as safari grounds—as the land of expansive, unpopulated game reserves untouched by civilization and preserved in their original pristine state by the tireless efforts of contemporary conservationists. With prose that is elegant in its simplicity and ... En savoir plus

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  • Into the House of the Ancestors

    Inside the New Africa

    par Karl Maier ...
    Experience Africa's vibrant and volatile struggle at the crossroads between tradition and modernity . . .INTO THE HOUSE OF THE ANCESTORS"Rich . . . fascinating." --The New York Times Book Review"A master of eyewitness description and of the telling interview, [Maier] has unearthed Africa's hidden heroes and heroines." --Financial Times"Maier has written a sensitive and complex narrative. . . . ... En savoir plus

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  • Signal and Noise

    Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria

    par Brian Larkin ...
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    Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or the United States is taken as the starting point. Concentrating on the Muslim city of Kano in the ... En savoir plus

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    par Eudora Aletta ...
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