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Lega
Les Lega vivent dans l'Est de la République démocratique du Congo. Il y a quelques décennies encore, ils créaient des sculptures que les scientifiques et les amateurs d'art considèrent comme un des sommets de l'art de l'Afrique noire. L'art Lega associe une apparente simplicité à une beauté conceptuelle. E est sobre et serein. Les masques et les statuettes sont faits de bois, d'ivoire, d'os ou d'une autre matière. Ils étaient utilisés dans le contexte du Bwami, une association initiatique dont l'objectif était l'élévation morale de ses membres. Les recherches menées auprès des Lega par l'anthropologue Daniel R. Biebuyck dans les années cinquante se sont révélées d'une imp...
The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga
The feats of the hero Mwindo are here glorified in the bilingual text of an epic which was sung and narrated in a Bantu language and acted out by a member of the Nyanga tribe in the remote forest regions of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Admirably structured, coherent, and richly poetic, the epic is in prose form, interspersed with song and proverbs in verse. An example of the classic tradition of oral folk literature, the tale has important implications for the comparative study of African culture, as the text provides profound insights into the social structure, value system, linguistics, and cosmology of this African people.
The Power of Headdresses
The book presents a cross-cultural study of headdresses drawn for ethic groups in Black Africa, North Africa, Asia, the Pacific Islands and the Americas.
African Agrarian Systems
Originally published in 1963 this volume surveys various aspects of the complex relations between rights in land, social organization and economic interests in tropical Africa. The papers - in English and French but with summaries in the other language - analyse case studies illustrating the various basic factors and problems connected with land in Tropical Africa. Indigenous systems of tenure and their adaptation to commercial agriculture, the balance between rights and obligations of groups and individuals, and the authority and duties of chiefs and headmen are discussed in detail for many different areas. Against this background important contributions are made towards the better understanding of problems raised by economic and political development, population increase, migration and scarcity of land.
Hero and Chief
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Art of the Lega
This volume accompanies the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History exhibition of the art of the African Lega. African art specialist Cameron provides information about the physical world of the Lega people and then discusses their social community and the three structures that provide the framework for Lega life--family, circumcision camp, and the Bwami society. She discusses artistic practice and aesthetics, indications of identity and status, and the art objects themselves. The book is extensively illustrated with color reproductions of the art works, as well as a few color and b&w photographs of the people. Oversize: 9x12". Distributed by the U. of Washington Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Lega Culture; Art, Initiation, and Moral Philosophy Among a Central African People
A young Highland boy discovers he has the gift of Second Sight.
Tradition and Creativity in Tribal Art
Learn about the four species of box turtles found in North America and gain interesting information about their habitats, feeding habits, and reproductive behavior.
How to Read a Folktale
How to Read a Folktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Ibonia is a folktale on epic scale. Much of its plot sounds familiar: a powerful royal hero attempts to rescue his betrothed from an evil adversary and, after a series of tests and duels, he and his lover are joyfully united with a marriage that affirms the royal lineage. These fairytale elements link Ibonia with European folktales, but the tale is still very much a product of Madagascar. It contains African-style praise poetry for the hero; it presents Indonesian-style riddles and poems; and it inflates the form of folktale into epic proportions. Recorded when the Malagasy people we...
Folktales Told Around the World
Authentic field-recorded texts of over one hundred tales recited by story-tellers from forty-six cultures around the world, collected as a representative sampling of the world's folk traditions.
