Catastrophe and Creation

The transformation of an African culture

K. Elkholm Friedmann (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

284 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-96994-0 (ISBN)

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First Published in 1992. This is a study of what happened to Kongo society and culture at the turn of the 20th century, when the area was penetrated, brutally violated and colonized by Europeans. This book is the outcome of a project called Society and Culture in Crisis whereby the author found that evolution was a continuous, more or less unbroken process only at the global system level, whereas repeated rises and falls took place at the local level. This study closely looks at the declining development process in the Lower Congo and calls to the effects of colonization on society and culture.

Friedmann, K. Elkholm

Introduction World process and the production of culture; Part 1 Transformation of the social order; Chapter 1 The factory system; Chapter 2 Catastrophe and creation; Part 2 Personhood and the dynamics of culture; Chapter 3 The constitution of the person and the externality of power; Part 3 Transformation of the cultural order; Chapter 4 From religion to magic; Chapter 5 Witchcraft as imaginary cannibalism; Chapter 6 Cannibalism and the loss of political power; Conclusion;

Erscheinungsdatum	10.08.2016
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Anthropology and History
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	530 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-96994-X / 113896994X
ISBN-13	978-1-138-96994-0 / 9781138969940
Zustand	Neuware