Author: Thomas Arbousset
Publisher: KARTHALA Editions
ISBN: 9782845860483
Category : Lesotho
Languages : fr
Pages : 220
Book Description
" Lors de mon premier voyage au Mont-aux-Sources, je fus singulièrement désappointé de ne pas voir le haut du fleuve Orange, au moment où je n'en étais séparé que par quelques lieues. Je me promis d'y retourner un jour si les circonstances m'étaient favorables. " Ainsi commence le texte dans lequel Thomas Arbousset a raconté son excursion au Mont-aux-Sources, qui surgit des Montagnes bleues, au nord du Lesotho, et domine le Drakensberg et le Natal. L'excursion missionnaire est le récit de conversations avec le roi des Sotho, qui n'avait jamais vu de Blancs avant de rencontrer les missionnaires. La présente édition comporte aussi la Notice sur les Zoulas, chapitre XVI de la Relation, où l'on trouve le Chant de louanges de Dingan, roi des Zulu, successeur de Chaka. Ce texte a été recueilli sur le terrain en 1838, auprès de Zulu réfugiés au Lesotho, transcrit et traduit par Arbousset. Il est sans doute le premier chant de louanges bantou à bénéficier d'un tel traitement ethnographique.
Excursion missionnaire dans les Montagnes bleues
Author: Thomas Arbousset
Publisher: KARTHALA Editions
ISBN: 9782845860483
Category : Lesotho
Languages : fr
Pages : 220
Book Description
" Lors de mon premier voyage au Mont-aux-Sources, je fus singulièrement désappointé de ne pas voir le haut du fleuve Orange, au moment où je n'en étais séparé que par quelques lieues. Je me promis d'y retourner un jour si les circonstances m'étaient favorables. " Ainsi commence le texte dans lequel Thomas Arbousset a raconté son excursion au Mont-aux-Sources, qui surgit des Montagnes bleues, au nord du Lesotho, et domine le Drakensberg et le Natal. L'excursion missionnaire est le récit de conversations avec le roi des Sotho, qui n'avait jamais vu de Blancs avant de rencontrer les missionnaires. La présente édition comporte aussi la Notice sur les Zoulas, chapitre XVI de la Relation, où l'on trouve le Chant de louanges de Dingan, roi des Zulu, successeur de Chaka. Ce texte a été recueilli sur le terrain en 1838, auprès de Zulu réfugiés au Lesotho, transcrit et traduit par Arbousset. Il est sans doute le premier chant de louanges bantou à bénéficier d'un tel traitement ethnographique.
Publisher: KARTHALA Editions
ISBN: 9782845860483
Category : Lesotho
Languages : fr
Pages : 220
Book Description
" Lors de mon premier voyage au Mont-aux-Sources, je fus singulièrement désappointé de ne pas voir le haut du fleuve Orange, au moment où je n'en étais séparé que par quelques lieues. Je me promis d'y retourner un jour si les circonstances m'étaient favorables. " Ainsi commence le texte dans lequel Thomas Arbousset a raconté son excursion au Mont-aux-Sources, qui surgit des Montagnes bleues, au nord du Lesotho, et domine le Drakensberg et le Natal. L'excursion missionnaire est le récit de conversations avec le roi des Sotho, qui n'avait jamais vu de Blancs avant de rencontrer les missionnaires. La présente édition comporte aussi la Notice sur les Zoulas, chapitre XVI de la Relation, où l'on trouve le Chant de louanges de Dingan, roi des Zulu, successeur de Chaka. Ce texte a été recueilli sur le terrain en 1838, auprès de Zulu réfugiés au Lesotho, transcrit et traduit par Arbousset. Il est sans doute le premier chant de louanges bantou à bénéficier d'un tel traitement ethnographique.
Africa Since 1935
Author: Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520067035
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
The hardcover edition of volume 8 was published in 1994. This paperback edition is the eighth and final volume to be published in the UNESCO General History of Africa. Volume 8 examines the period from 1935 to the present, and details the role of African states in the Second World War and the rise of postwar Africa. This is one of the most important books in the entire series, and as such, it is an unabridged paperback.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520067035
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
The hardcover edition of volume 8 was published in 1994. This paperback edition is the eighth and final volume to be published in the UNESCO General History of Africa. Volume 8 examines the period from 1935 to the present, and details the role of African states in the Second World War and the rise of postwar Africa. This is one of the most important books in the entire series, and as such, it is an unabridged paperback.
Magmatism and the Causes of Continental Break-up
Author: Bryan C. Storey
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
A Guide to Rock Art Sites
Author: David S. Whitley
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing
ISBN: 9780878423323
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This unique full-color field guide is essential for anyone who seeks to understand why shamans in the Far West created rock art and what they sought to depict. Whitley is on the cutting edge of dating and interpreting the images as well as describing the
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing
ISBN: 9780878423323
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This unique full-color field guide is essential for anyone who seeks to understand why shamans in the Far West created rock art and what they sought to depict. Whitley is on the cutting edge of dating and interpreting the images as well as describing the
Marlene Dumas: Myths & Mortals
Author: Marlene Dumas
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
ISBN: 194170199X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The latest from the renowned painter—Marlene Dumas’s new works respond more than ever to the uncertainty and sensuality of the painting process itself. Allowing the structure of the canvases and the materiality of the paint greater freedom to inform the development of her compositions, the artist has likened the creation of these works to the act of falling in love: an unpredictable and open-ended process that is as filled with awkwardness and anxiety as it is with bliss and discovery. Myths & Mortals documents a selection of new paintings—debuted in the spring of 2018 at David Zwirner, New York—ranging from monumental nude figures to intimately scaled canvases that present details of bodily parts and facial features. Several nearly ten-foot-tall paintings focus on individual figures, including a number of male and female nudes and a seemingly solemn bride, whose expression is obscured behind a floor-length veil. Like the Greek gods and goddesses, the figures in these paintings are at once larger than life and overwhelmingly human. The smaller-scale paintings—referred to by the artist as “erotic landscapes”—present a variety of fragmentary images: eyes, lips, nipples, or lovers locked in a kiss. Evident across all of these works is the artist’s uniquely sensitive treatment of the human form and her constantly evolving experimentation with color and texture. Alongside these new paintings, Dumas presents an expansive series of thirty-two works on paper originally created for a Dutch translation of William Shakespeare’s narrative poem Venus & Adonis (1593) by Hafid Bouazza (2016). Myths & Mortals is accompanied by new scholarship on the artist by Claire Messud and a text by Dumas herself.
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
ISBN: 194170199X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The latest from the renowned painter—Marlene Dumas’s new works respond more than ever to the uncertainty and sensuality of the painting process itself. Allowing the structure of the canvases and the materiality of the paint greater freedom to inform the development of her compositions, the artist has likened the creation of these works to the act of falling in love: an unpredictable and open-ended process that is as filled with awkwardness and anxiety as it is with bliss and discovery. Myths & Mortals documents a selection of new paintings—debuted in the spring of 2018 at David Zwirner, New York—ranging from monumental nude figures to intimately scaled canvases that present details of bodily parts and facial features. Several nearly ten-foot-tall paintings focus on individual figures, including a number of male and female nudes and a seemingly solemn bride, whose expression is obscured behind a floor-length veil. Like the Greek gods and goddesses, the figures in these paintings are at once larger than life and overwhelmingly human. The smaller-scale paintings—referred to by the artist as “erotic landscapes”—present a variety of fragmentary images: eyes, lips, nipples, or lovers locked in a kiss. Evident across all of these works is the artist’s uniquely sensitive treatment of the human form and her constantly evolving experimentation with color and texture. Alongside these new paintings, Dumas presents an expansive series of thirty-two works on paper originally created for a Dutch translation of William Shakespeare’s narrative poem Venus & Adonis (1593) by Hafid Bouazza (2016). Myths & Mortals is accompanied by new scholarship on the artist by Claire Messud and a text by Dumas herself.
Theory, Knowledge, Development and Politics
Author: Mawere, Munyaradzi
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
ISBN: 9956763640
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This volume interrogates the popularity of problematic theories in the study of Africa and Africans in the 21st century. The book provides ethnographic and intellectual material for scholars seeking to rethink and reimagine a number of externally imposed theories used (un-)consciously in Africa, with the intention of raising awareness and fostering critical thinking amongst scholars theorising Africa. With its theorising focus and contributors drawn from diverse disciplines and geographical locations, the book is both a pacesetter on how to think, research and theorise Africa, and an invaluable asset for social scientists, development practitioners, civil society activists and leaders in the politics and economy of everyday life on the continent. It poses an invitation to those seeking to re-embrace and reconnect with theory as an indispensable ingredient and determinant of quality in critical production and consumption of knowledge on Africa and of relevance to Africans.
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
ISBN: 9956763640
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This volume interrogates the popularity of problematic theories in the study of Africa and Africans in the 21st century. The book provides ethnographic and intellectual material for scholars seeking to rethink and reimagine a number of externally imposed theories used (un-)consciously in Africa, with the intention of raising awareness and fostering critical thinking amongst scholars theorising Africa. With its theorising focus and contributors drawn from diverse disciplines and geographical locations, the book is both a pacesetter on how to think, research and theorise Africa, and an invaluable asset for social scientists, development practitioners, civil society activists and leaders in the politics and economy of everyday life on the continent. It poses an invitation to those seeking to re-embrace and reconnect with theory as an indispensable ingredient and determinant of quality in critical production and consumption of knowledge on Africa and of relevance to Africans.
Muslim Youth and the 9/11 Generation
Author: Adeline Masquelier
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826356990
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A new cohort of Muslim youth has arisen since the attacks of 9/11, facilitated by the proliferation of recent communication technologies and the Internet. By focusing on these young people as a heterogeneous global cohort, the contributors to this volume—who draw from a variety of disciplines—show how the study of Muslim youth at this particular historical juncture is relevant to thinking about the anthropology of youth, the anthropology of Islamic and Muslim societies, and the post-9/11 world more generally. These scholars focus on young Muslims in a variety of settings in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North America and explore the distinct pastimes and performances, processes of civic engagement and political action, entrepreneurial and consumption practices, forms of self-fashioning, and aspirations and struggles in which they engage as they seek to understand their place and make their way in a transformed world.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826356990
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A new cohort of Muslim youth has arisen since the attacks of 9/11, facilitated by the proliferation of recent communication technologies and the Internet. By focusing on these young people as a heterogeneous global cohort, the contributors to this volume—who draw from a variety of disciplines—show how the study of Muslim youth at this particular historical juncture is relevant to thinking about the anthropology of youth, the anthropology of Islamic and Muslim societies, and the post-9/11 world more generally. These scholars focus on young Muslims in a variety of settings in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North America and explore the distinct pastimes and performances, processes of civic engagement and political action, entrepreneurial and consumption practices, forms of self-fashioning, and aspirations and struggles in which they engage as they seek to understand their place and make their way in a transformed world.
Constitutions and Conflict Management in Africa
Author: Alan J. Kuperman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812246586
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Presenting the first database of constitutional design in all African countries, and seven original case studies, Constitutions and Conflict Management in Africa explores the types of domestic political institutions that can buffer societies from destabilizing changes that otherwise increase the risk of violence.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812246586
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Presenting the first database of constitutional design in all African countries, and seven original case studies, Constitutions and Conflict Management in Africa explores the types of domestic political institutions that can buffer societies from destabilizing changes that otherwise increase the risk of violence.
Student Politics in Africa
Author: Luescher, Thierry M.
Publisher: African Minds
ISBN: 192833122X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The second volume of the African Higher Education Dynamics Series brings together the research of an international network of higher education scholars with interest in higher education and student politics in Africa. Most authors are early career academics who teach and conduct research in universities across the continent, and who came together for a research project and related workshops and a symposium on student representation in African higher education governance. The book includes theoretical chapters on student organising, student activism and representation; chapters on historical and current developments in student politics in Anglophone and Francophone Africa; and in-depth case studies on student representation and activism in a cross-section of universities and countries. The book provides a unique resource for academics, university leaders and student affairs professionals as well as student leaders and policy-makers in Africa and elsewhere.
Publisher: African Minds
ISBN: 192833122X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The second volume of the African Higher Education Dynamics Series brings together the research of an international network of higher education scholars with interest in higher education and student politics in Africa. Most authors are early career academics who teach and conduct research in universities across the continent, and who came together for a research project and related workshops and a symposium on student representation in African higher education governance. The book includes theoretical chapters on student organising, student activism and representation; chapters on historical and current developments in student politics in Anglophone and Francophone Africa; and in-depth case studies on student representation and activism in a cross-section of universities and countries. The book provides a unique resource for academics, university leaders and student affairs professionals as well as student leaders and policy-makers in Africa and elsewhere.
Our Sister Killjoy
Author: Ama Ata Aidoo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571388004
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fish and chips. They lied. They lied. They lied. Sissie is leaving Africa for the first time, arriving in Europe on a scholarship to experience the glories of a Western education. In Germany, as guest of honour over embassy cocktails, she cringes at her countrymen. In a Bavarian castle, she is seduced by a lonely local mother to Little Adolf. In freezing London, she witnesses 'been-tos' sharing myths of an overseas idyll. In between continents, she writes a letter on the plane to her exiled former lover. But it is not sent. She will tell these tales back at home. Ama Ata Aidoo's landmark debut Our Sister Killjoy exploded into the world in 1977. With its blistering feminist satire of the African diaspora, colonial legacies and toxic racism, expressed in a radical literary form - prose poetry, letter, manifesto - its provocative impact remains unmatched. 'A wondrous discovery.' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 'A granary of wisdom & knowledge.' Tsitsi Dangarembga 'Aidoo has reaffirmed my faith in the power of the written word.' Alice Walker 'Modest, lyrical, reflective and intelligent .. Deserves as wide an audience as it can get.' Angela Carter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571388004
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fish and chips. They lied. They lied. They lied. Sissie is leaving Africa for the first time, arriving in Europe on a scholarship to experience the glories of a Western education. In Germany, as guest of honour over embassy cocktails, she cringes at her countrymen. In a Bavarian castle, she is seduced by a lonely local mother to Little Adolf. In freezing London, she witnesses 'been-tos' sharing myths of an overseas idyll. In between continents, she writes a letter on the plane to her exiled former lover. But it is not sent. She will tell these tales back at home. Ama Ata Aidoo's landmark debut Our Sister Killjoy exploded into the world in 1977. With its blistering feminist satire of the African diaspora, colonial legacies and toxic racism, expressed in a radical literary form - prose poetry, letter, manifesto - its provocative impact remains unmatched. 'A wondrous discovery.' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 'A granary of wisdom & knowledge.' Tsitsi Dangarembga 'Aidoo has reaffirmed my faith in the power of the written word.' Alice Walker 'Modest, lyrical, reflective and intelligent .. Deserves as wide an audience as it can get.' Angela Carter