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Boundaries and History in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 658

Boundaries and History in Africa

This book compromises 26 well-researched essays in honour of Professor Verkijika G. Fanso, who retired in 2011 after over 36 years of distinguished service at universities in Cameroon. Contributors include colleagues, former students and close collaborators in Cameroon and beyond. Contributions cover a wide range of issues related to the contested histories, politics and practices of boundaries and frontiers in Africa. These are themes on which Fanso has researched, published and taught extensively, and earned international recognition as a leading scholar. The book explores, inter alia, indigenous and endogenous practices of boundary making in Africa; as well as colonial and contemporary traditions, practices and conflicts on and around frontiers. In particular focus, are disputed colonial boundaries between Cameroon and its neighbours. Issues of intra- and inter-disciplinary frontiers, politics and cultures are also addressed. The volume is crowned by a farewell valedictory lecture by Fanso. Like Fanso and his rich repertoire of publications, this bumper harvest of essays is without doubt, truly immortalising.

The Representations of Women in the Middle Kingdom Tombs of Officials
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 770

The Representations of Women in the Middle Kingdom Tombs of Officials

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-07-22
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  • Publisher: BRILL

"In The Representations of Women in the Middle Kingdom Tombs of Officials Lubica Hudáková offers an in-depth analysis of female iconography in the decorative programme of Middle Kingdom non-royal tombs, highlighting changes and innovations in comparison to the Old Kingdom. Previously considered too uniform, the study represents the first systematic investigation of two-dimensional images of women and reveals their variability in space and time. Hudáková examines the roles appointed to women by analyzing how they are depicted in a variety of contexts. Taking into account their postures, gestures, garments, hairstyles, size of the body, age as well as attributes and tools used by them, along with the scene orientation, she traces diachronic and diatopic developments and regional traditions in the Middle Kingdom tomb decoration"--

HISTARC
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 250
Tome XI La religion des astres ou le sabéisme
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 232

Tome XI La religion des astres ou le sabéisme

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-08-25
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  • Publisher: Auto Edition

Quand les dieux et les hommes étaient des planètes, des étoiles ou des constellations

Libation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Libation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-12-28
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  • Publisher: UPA

This book concerns the origins, structure, purpose, meaning, and significance of libation, developments and change within the ritual, and its distribution in the Afrikan world. Libation is a liquid offering by and behalf of all humanity, those living and those yet-to-be-born, to the Creator, to other divinities, to ancestors, and to the environment. Through this ritual Afrikans affirm and re-establish cosmic balance, interconnection and interdependence: the harmony and balance, connection and interdependency within, between and among humans, the environment, the spirit world, and the Creator. The text connects the practice of libation throughout the prodigious time/space correlation occupied by the Afrikan experience of life, connects Afrikans to their social history, and so to themselves across generations in different spaces and times. The methodology is at once both multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary. The methods and techniques of history, linguistics, cultural studies, literature and other human sciences are deployed to develop a comprehensive reconstruction, description and analysis of a ritual that has long been antique, but has never become antiquated.

Markers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 432

Markers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Annual Egyptological Bibliography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 646

Annual Egyptological Bibliography

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Revue sénégalaise d’histoire N°12 (RSH)
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 323

Revue sénégalaise d’histoire N°12 (RSH)

Repenser les différentes interconnexions, latentes ou explicites, qui existent entre religion et identité, à travers l’histoire de l’Afrique, est une entreprise digne de considération. Elle vise d’une part à comprendre comment les croyances et les pratiques, qui y sont associées, contribuent à la (re)construction des identités. D’autre part, elle ambitionne de décrire la manière dont les identités, issues de ces religions, s’entrechoquent au quotidien. Par ailleurs, il ne serait pas superflu de relever les propriétés invariantes communes à toutes ces religions dans leur dynamique de (re)constitution des mentalités. Enfin, elle explore la possibilité d’une flexibilité des « vérités absolues » en vue d’une cohabitation harmonieuse de toutes ces identités en mouvement. Plusieurs universitaires se sont donné la peine d’y participer à travers leurs riches réflexions. Rédigées en français et en anglais, ces dernières peuvent être regroupées dans les quatre (4) principaux axes suivants : Théonymie : incidences culturelles et épistémologiques ; Religion et politique ; Croyances et pratiques religieuses ; Religion et patrimoine.

Revue sénégalaise d'histoire (RSH) N°13
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 163

Revue sénégalaise d'histoire (RSH) N°13

Ce numéro 13 de la Revue sénégalaise d'histoire explore les dynamiques d’échanges, d’espaces et de réseaux en Afrique, depuis des siècles jusqu'à aujourd'hui. À travers plusieurs études de cas, les auteurs examinent l’impact des interactions commerciales, politiques et culturelles entre l’Afrique et le reste du monde, notamment avec l'Europe. Ils se concentrent sur des périodes charnières de l’histoire africaine, telles que la traite négrière et l’ère coloniale, pour montrer comment ces échanges ont façonné les sociétés africaines. En plus des aspects économiques, l'ouvrage aborde des questions de gouvernance sécuritaire, avec l'implication d'acteurs externes comme la Russie dans la région du Sahel. Ce travail est enrichi par des contributions sur l'intégration régionale autour du fleuve Mano et la coopération entre les communautés locales.