The Kongo Kingdom

Herausgeber: Bostoen, Koen; Brinkman, Inge

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing new insights on one of the most famous pre-colonial polities in Central Africa, this unique book provides a cross-disciplinary approach to the history of the Kongo kingdom. Both distinguished and upcoming scholars from areas as diverse as anthropology, archaeology, history, and linguistics share a thematic focus on political space.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781108463928
• ISBN-10: 1108463924
• Artikelnr.: 59334752

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: cross-disciplinary approaches to Kongo history Koen Bostoen
and Inge Brinkman; Part I. The Origins and Dynamics of the Kongo Kingdom:
1. The origins of Kongo: a revised vision John K. Thornton; 2. A central
African kingdom: Kongo in 1480 Wyatt MacGaffey; 3. Seventeenth-century
Kikongo is not the ancestor of present-day Kikongo Koen Bostoen and
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver; 4. Soyo and Kongo: the undoing of the Kingdom's
centralisation John K. Thornton; 5. The Eastern Border of the Kongo
kingdom: on relocating the Hydronym Barbela Igor Matonda; Part II. Kongo's
Cosmopolitan Culture and the Wider World: 6. From image to grave and back:
multidisciplinary inquiries into Kongo Christian visual culture Cécile
Fromont; 7. Ceramics decorated with woven motifs: an archaeological Kongo
kingdom identifier? Els Cranshof, Nicolas Nikis and Pierre de Maret;
8. From America to Africa: how Kongo nobility made smoking pipes their own
Bernard Clist; 9. 'To make book': a conceptual historical approach to Kongo
book cultures (sixteenth-nineteenth c.) Inge Brinkman and Koen Bostoen; 10.
Kongo cosmopolitans in the nineteenth century Jelmer Vos; 11. The making of
Kongo identity in the American diaspora: a case study from Brazil Linda
Heywood.