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The Kongo Kingdom : the origins, dynamics and cosmopolitan culture of an African polity
| Autres auteurs : | , |
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | The Kongo Kingdom : the origins, dynamics and cosmopolitan culture of an African polity / edited by Koen Bostoen,... Inge Brinkman,... |
| Publié : |
Cambridge, New York, NY, Port Melbourne [etc.] :
Cambridge University Press
, 2018 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (xii-322 p.-[8] p. de pl.) |
| Sujets : |
- Introduction: cross-disciplinary approaches to Kongo history / Koen Bostoen and Inge Brinkman
- Part I. The Origins and Dynamics of the Kongo Kingdom
- The origins of Kongo: a revised vision / John K. Thornton
- A central African kingdom: Kongo in 1480 / Wyatt MacGaffey
- Seventeenth-century Kikongo is not the ancestor of present-day Kikongo / Koen Bostoen and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
- Soyo and Kongo: the undoing of the Kingdom's centralisation / John K. Thornton
- The Eastern Border of the Kongo kingdom: on relocating the Hydronym Barbela / Igor Matonda
- Part II. Kongo's Cosmopolitan Culture and the Wider World
- From image to grave and back: multidisciplinary inquiries into Kongo Christian visual culture / Cecile Fromont
- Ceramics decorated with woven motifs: an archaeological Kongo kingdom identifier? / Els Cranshof, Nicolas Nikis and Pierre de Maret
- From America to Africa: how Kongo nobility made smoking pipes their own / Bernard Clist
- 'To make book': a conceptual historical approach to Kongo book cultures (sixteenth-nineteenth centuries) / Inge Brinkman and Koen Bostoen
- Kongo cosmopolitans in the nineteenth century / Jelmer Vos
- The making of Kongo identity in the American diaspora: a case study from Brazil / Linda Heywood