Ramon Sarró

Inventing an African Alphabet

Writing, Art, and Kongo Culture in the Drc

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the Mandombe alphabet and the life-story of its inventor, David Wabeladio Payi, Ramon Sarró combines biography, art, and religion to explore the connections between religious imagination and innovation in Kongo culture. He offers a unique case study of the search for cultural and epistemological independence in the global south.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9781009199483
• ISBN-10: 100919948X
• Artikelnr.: 70898104

Autorenporträt

Ramon Sarró is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology of Africa at the University of Oxford. His book The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast: Iconoclasm Done and Undone received the 2010 Amaury Talbot Prize of the Royal Anthropological Institute. His current research, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, focuses on prophetic imagination in Angola.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of maps
List of Glyphs
Acknowledgments
Part I. Introduction: 1. A writing lesson (in Luanda)
Part II. Biography: 2. N'kamba: the road to revelation
3. Kinshasa: the road to the university
4. The eagle and the silk-cotton tree: my road with Wabeladio
Part III. Writing, Art, and Kongo Culture: 5. The road to the alphabet: the basics of Mandombe
6. On the Kongo road writing and entrapping culture
7. The road to art: the basics of Kimbanbula
8. A different road: reading Wabeladio's 'Method of Discovery'
Part IV. Discussion: 9. How to make words with bricks: some final thoughts on creativity
Bibliography
Index.