Broken Pottery The Life Of An African Girl

Daily Life of Women: An Encyclopedia from Ancient Times to the Present [3 volumes]

Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2020-12-31
ISBN : 1440846936
Pages : 1254 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (44 users)

Get Book !!!

Download or read book Daily Life of Women: An Encyclopedia from Ancient Times to the Present [3 volumes] written by Colleen Boyett and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 1254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indispensable for the student or researcher studying women's history, this book draws upon a wide array of cultural settings and time periods in which women displayed agency by carrying out their daily economic, familial, artistic, and religious obligations. Since record keeping began, history has been written by a relatively few elite men. Insights into women's history are left to be gleaned by scholars who undertake careful readings of ancient literature, examine archaeological artifacts, and study popular culture, such as folktales, musical traditions, and art. For some historical periods and geographic regions, this is the only way to develop some sense of what daily life might have been like for women in a particular time and place. This reference explores the daily life of women across civilizations. The work is organized in sections on different civilizations from around the world, arranged chronologically. Within each society, the encyclopedia highlights the roles of women within five broad thematic categories: the arts, economics and work, family and community life, recreation and social customs, and religious life. Included are numerous sidebars containing additional information, document excerpts, images, and suggestions for further reading. An introduction provides an overview the daily life of women through history, and a timeline highlights key events in women's history. Chronologically arranged sections on civilizations from across world history provide information on the daily life of women living in those societies. For each civilization, broad categories of daily life are broken into subsections, with each offering reference entries on specific topics. Photos help users visualize important topics, and sidebars provide interesting tangential information. Bibliographies direct readers to additional resources.

The Child in the Midst

by Mary Schauffler Platt

Publisher : DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-04
ISBN :
Pages : 164 pages
Rating Book: 4.5/5 (859 users)

Get Book !!!

Download or read book The Child in the Midst written by Mary Schauffler Platt and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Child in the Midst" (A Comparative Study of Child Welfare in Christian and Non-Christian Lands) by Mary Schauffler Platt. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

African Arts

Publisher :
Release Date : 2007
ISBN :
Pages : 414 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (39 users)

Get Book !!!

Download or read book African Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African American Folklore: An Encyclopedia for Students

by Anand Prahlad

Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2016-08-08
ISBN : 1610699300
Pages : 413 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (61 users)

Get Book !!!

Download or read book African American Folklore: An Encyclopedia for Students written by Anand Prahlad and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American folklore dates back 240 years and has had a significant impact on American culture from the slavery period to the modern day. This encyclopedia provides accessible entries on key elements of this long history, including folklore originally derived from African cultures that have survived here and those that originated in the United States. • Offers the most comprehensive compilation of resources on African American folklore, in the forms of bibliographical citations, lists of websites, and lists of cultural centers • Demonstrates the importance of black folklore to the development of American culture • Contains a unique collection of entries on black folk traditions • Documents the historical, aesthetic influence of African culture on African American folklore

West Africa's Women of God

by Robert M. Baum

Publisher : Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2015-11-09
ISBN : 0253017912
Pages : 316 pages
Rating Book: 4.5/5 (253 users)

Get Book !!!

Download or read book West Africa's Women of God written by Robert M. Baum and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West Africa's Women of God examines the history of direct revelation from Emitai, the Supreme Being, which has been central to the Diola religion from before European colonization to the present day. Robert M. Baum charts the evolution of this movement from its origins as an exclusively male tradition to one that is largely female. He traces the response of Diola to the distinct challenges presented by conquest, colonial rule, and the post-colonial era. Looking specifically at the work of the most famous Diola woman prophet, Alinesitoué, Baum addresses the history of prophecy in West Africa and its impact on colonialism, the development of local religious traditions, and the role of women in religious communities.

An African Tree of Life

by Thomas G. Christensen

Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2015-12-30
ISBN : 1498278663
Pages : 207 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (498 users)

Get Book !!!

Download or read book An African Tree of Life written by Thomas G. Christensen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An African Tree of Life demonstrates how mission involves not only a "bringing-to" a people, but a "discovering-of" those deep symbols in human culture and God's creation that, in the light of the gospel, draw humanity to Christ. This book, in a scholarly yet intriguing way, explores the stories and rituals of the Gbaya people of the Cameroon and the Central African Republic. These deep symbols are typically centered not in the esoteric or exotic but in the familiar and everyday. Christensen focuses on the especial importance of the peace-bringing tree of life--the sore tree--central to the lives and worship of the Gbaya. "Gbaya Christians," says Christensen, "offer to North American Christians fresh and hope-filled images, rich metaphors, new and yet familiar to us." Thus, An African Tree of Life is an important book not only for theologians, missiologists, and Africanists but for all those concerned with issues of contextualization and seeking life-giving symbols in the quest to communicate the gospel message.

A Day in a Working Life: 300 Trades and Professions through History [3 volumes]

by Gary Westfahl

Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2015-04-21
ISBN : 1610694031
Pages : 1373 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (61 users)

Get Book !!!

Download or read book A Day in a Working Life: 300 Trades and Professions through History [3 volumes] written by Gary Westfahl and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 1373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for high school and college students studying history through the everyday lives of men and women, this book offers intriguing information about the jobs that people have held, from ancient times to the 21st century. • Provides detailed, interesting essays describing more than 300 professions and occupations across a broad range of eras, including the 21st century, and from around the world, which will give readers a wider understanding of how people have supported themselves throughout time • Supplies historical primary documents that provide personal perspectives on past occupations • Offers fascinating information on how professions began, who did them, and continuity in occupations across time, such as that 18th-century journalists were often imprisoned for displeasing those in authority, and yet 21st-century U.S. journalists may still spend time in jail for refusing to reveal their sources

Flow of Forms / Forms of Flow

by Kerstin Pinther

Publisher : transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2018-05-31
ISBN : 383944201X
Pages : 208 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (839 users)

Get Book !!!

Download or read book Flow of Forms / Forms of Flow written by Kerstin Pinther and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a teenager, I spent my time wondering why in sci-fi movies, every landscape, every object I could see was Western or Asian based. I've finally understood that somewhere our legacy had been locked in the past, that we couldn't be "futuristic" in the eyes of our fellow Europeans. We have to look behind our shoulders, get back to our traditions, seize the best of them and shape a future with it. This without forgetting we are part of the world, totally, unquestionably. The future is for me not only a matter of dialogue with the past, but and beyond everything a dialogue with the rest of the planet. Kossi Aguessy How is it possible to adequately capture histories of design in Africa, a continent with fifty-four countries? How can one avoid producing just another essentialising master narrative of "African Design"? How can one make sense of the many entangled yet often asymmetric and sometimes ambivalent histories of form-finding processes between Africa and Europe? In keeping with the premises of a global art and design history approach, the book offers a change of perspective: focusing on the mobility of people, objects and ideas - on flows between Africa and Europe as well as on a South-South axis - allows for multiple yet necessarily fragmented design histories to be identified and recognised. The contributors trace multi-faceted design case studies from a historical perspective, with attention to the present as well as towards possible futures.

American Literature in Transition, 1910–1920

by Mark W. Van Wienen

Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-28
ISBN : 1108548598
Pages : 440 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (18 users)

Get Book !!!

Download or read book American Literature in Transition, 1910–1920 written by Mark W. Van Wienen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Literature in Transition, 1910–1920 offers provocative new readings of authors whose innovations are recognized as inaugurating Modernism in US letters, including Robert Frost, Willa Cather, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, H. D., and Marianne Moore. Gathering the voices of both new and established scholars, the volume also reflects the diversity and contradictions of US literature of the 1910s. 'Literature' itself is construed variously, leading to explorations of jazz, the movies, and political writing as well as little magazines, lantern slides, and sports reportage. One section of thematic essays cuts across genre boundaries. Another section oriented to formats drills deeply into the workings of specific media, genres, or forms. Essays on institutions conclude the collection, although a critical mass of contributors throughout explore long-term literary and cultural trends - where political repression, race prejudice, war, and counterrevolution are no less prominent than experimentation, progress, and egalitarianism.

World of a Slave: Encyclopedia of the Material Life of Slaves in the United States [2 volumes]

by Kym S. Rice

Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2010-12-13
ISBN : 0313349436
Pages : 581 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (313 users)

Get Book !!!

Download or read book World of a Slave: Encyclopedia of the Material Life of Slaves in the United States [2 volumes] written by Kym S. Rice and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume encyclopedia is the first to focus on the material life of slaves. • 178 A–Z entries on almost all aspects of the material culture of enslaved African Americans from the 17th century until 1865 • Contributions from a plethora of scholars, curators, artisans, and archaeologists in the field • Sidebars including quotations from former slaves in which they describe the use and meaning of material objects • Period paintings, watercolors, photographs, and drawings that illustrate the material world of enslaved blacks • Photos of buildings, archaeological assemblages, and modern-day reproductions to illustrate specific entries • A thematic guide that helps users easily find related topics • Includes a substantial selected bibliography, including vetted websites

West African Shamanism

by Robert Hamill Nassau

Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2018-10-08
ISBN : 3748129211
Pages : 522 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (748 users)

Get Book !!!

Download or read book West African Shamanism written by Robert Hamill Nassau and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In my study of the natives' language my attention was drawn closely to their customs; and in my inquiry into their religion I at once saw how it was bound up in these customs. I met with other white men-traders, government officials, and even some missionaries-whose interest in Africa, however deep, was circumscribed by their special work for, respectively, wealth, power, and Gospel proclamation. They could see in those customs only "folly,"and in the religion only "superstition." I read many books on other parts of Africa, in which the same customs and religion prevailed. I did not think it reasonable to dismiss curtly as absurd the cherished sentiments of so large a portion of the human race. I asked myself: Is there no logical ground for the existence of these sentiments, no philosophy behind all these beliefs? I began to search; and thenceforward for thirty years, wherever I travelled, wherever I was guest to native chief, wherever I lived, I was always leading the conversation, in hut or camp, back to a study of the native thought. I soon found that I gained nothing if I put my questions suddenly or without mask. The natives generally were aware that white men despised them and their beliefs, and they were slow to admit me to their thought if I made a direct advance. But, by chatting as a friend, telling them the strange and great things of my own country, and first eliciting their trust in me and interest in my stories, they forgot their reticence, and responded by telling me of their country. I listened, not critically, but apparently as a believer; and then they vied with each other in telling me all they knew and thought.

African Study Monographs

Publisher :
Release Date : 1996
ISBN :
Pages : 296 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (3 users)

Get Book !!!

Download or read book African Study Monographs written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Conjuring Moments in African American Literature

by K. Samuel

Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2012-12-27
ISBN : 1137336811
Pages : 189 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (137 users)

Get Book !!!

Download or read book Conjuring Moments in African American Literature written by K. Samuel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-27 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages the ways African American authors have shifted, recycled, and reinvented the conjure woman in fiction. Kameelah Martin Samuel traces her presence and function in twentieth-century literature through historical records, oral histories, blues music, and collections of African American folklore.

Urban Environments in Africa

by Myers, Garth

Publisher : Policy Press
Release Date : 2016-02-24
ISBN : 1447322916
Pages : 228 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (447 users)

Get Book !!!

Download or read book Urban Environments in Africa written by Myers, Garth and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa's urban populations are growing rapidly, raising numerous environmental concerns as the pace of change stretches local resources and generates hazardous and unhealthy living conditions. Because these urban areas are also linked to the extremes of both poverty and wealth, they offer a unique opportunity for analyzing the many aspects of environmental politics. Drawing on fieldwork data, map analysis, place-name study, interviews, and fiction studies, Garth Myers explores African environmentalism from a variety of perspectives. By acknowledging the clash between Western planning mindsets that focus on sustainable development and the lived realities of residents in often poor, informal settlements, this important book marks a critical advance in the study of Africa's urban environments. It will have a profound impact across disciplines, from geography to urban, development, environmental, and African studies.

Africanisms in American Culture

by Joseph E. Holloway

Publisher : Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2005
ISBN : 9780253217493
Pages : 456 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (217 users)

Get Book !!!

Download or read book Africanisms in American Culture written by Joseph E. Holloway and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised and expanded edition of a groundbreaking text.

The Life of a South African Tribe

by Henri Alexandre Junod

Publisher :
Release Date : 1962
ISBN :
Pages : 602 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (39 users)

Get Book !!!

Download or read book The Life of a South African Tribe written by Henri Alexandre Junod and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African-American Art

by Sharon F. Patton

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1998
ISBN : 9780192842138
Pages : 328 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (842 users)

Get Book !!!

Download or read book African-American Art written by Sharon F. Patton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses African American folk art, decorative art, photography, and fine arts