Wyatt MacGaffey
Auteur van Astonishment & Power: The Eyes of Understanding: Kongo Minkisi / The Art of Renee Stout
Over de Auteur
Wyatt MacGaffey was formerly John R. Coleman Professor of Social Sciences at Haverford College.
Werken van Wyatt MacGaffey
Astonishment & Power: The Eyes of Understanding: Kongo Minkisi / The Art of Renee Stout (1993) — Auteur — 50 exemplaren
Art and healing of the Bakongo, commented by themselves: Minkisi from the Laman collection (Monograph series) (1991) 6 exemplaren
Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers: History, Politics, and Land Ownership in Northern Ghana (2013) 3 exemplaren
Modern Kongo prophets: Religion in a plural society (African systems of thought) (1983) 2 exemplaren
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Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting and Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in… (1994) — Medewerker — 39 exemplaren
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Kongo Political Culture: The Conceptual Challenge… door Wyatt MacGaffey
This is not a bad book, but it didn't strike a chord with me. As the title indicates, the author's interest lie in the particular, as in detailed first-hand descriptions of how certain people in Kongo have experienced political power. But there's no generalization, no educated discussion of what these variegated details might imply for the author's understanding of Kongolese societies in a broader perspective. Maybe this book is intended for Kongo specialists. For the layman it's just a tedious collection of disparate particular facts.… (meer)
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