Women of the African Ark
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Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,45 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Africa, Northeast
ISBN : 9781566406116
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,45 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Africa, Northeast
ISBN : 9781566406116
Author : Carol Beckwith
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 29,6 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781426204241
Presents a selection of full-color photographs from across Africa, covering topics including sense of place, the joy of being, inner journeys, patterns of beauty, rhythm from within, and capacity to endure.
Author : Angela Fischer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,33 MB
Release : 2000
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Author : Carol Beckwith
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 2002-10-08
Category : History
ISBN :
A newly designed, affordable one-volume edition of this definitive work on the traditional rituals of Africa, containing more than half the photos that were in the original edition plus new images that will focus fresh attention on specific ceremonies. The book is accompanied by a CD of African ceremonies. 473 photos.
Author : Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1469663619
Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South on the eve of the Civil War, Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh traces a bold history of the interior lives of bondwomen as they carved out an existence for themselves and their families amid the horrors of American slavery. With particular attention to maternity, sex, and other gendered aspects of women's lives, she documents how bondwomen crafted female-centered cultures that shaped the religious consciousness and practices of entire enslaved communities. Indeed, gender as well as race co-constituted the Black religious subject, she argues—requiring a shift away from understandings of "slave religion" as a gender-amorphous category. Women responded on many levels—ethically, ritually, and communally—to southern slavery. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Wells-Oghoghomeh shows how they remembered, reconfigured, and innovated beliefs and practices circulating between Africa and the Americas. In this way, she redresses the exclusion of enslaved women from the American religious narrative. Challenging conventional institutional histories, this book opens a rare window onto the spiritual strivings of one of the most remarkable and elusive groups in the American experience.
Author : Serbin, Sylvia
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 27,54 MB
Release : 2015-11-09
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ISBN : 9231001302
Author : Graham Hancock
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 46,59 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1459607643
" ... Two brave young women living at opposite ends of history are brought together by supernatural forces to do battle with a demon who travels through time. The fate of humanity rests in their hands ..."--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Graham Hancock
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 1993-07-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0671865412
The quest for the lost Ark of the Covenent.
Author : Ayo A. Coly
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1496214897
Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. While contemporary critical thought and feminist theory have largely integrated the sexual female body into their disciplines, colonial representations of African women’s sexuality “haunt” contemporary postcolonial African scholarship which—by maintaining a culture of avoidance about women’s sexuality—generates a discursive conscription that ultimately holds the female body hostage. Ayo A. Coly employs the concept of “hauntology” and “ghostly matters” to formulate an explicative framework in which to examine postcolonial silences surrounding the African female body as well as a theoretical framework for discerning the elusive and cautious presences of female sexuality in the texts of African women. In illuminating the pervasive silence about the sexual female body in postcolonial African scholarship, Postcolonial Hauntologies challenges hostile responses to critical and artistic voices that suggest the African female body represents sacred ideological-discursive ground on which one treads carefully, if at all. Coly demonstrates how “ghosts” from the colonial past are countered by discursive engagements with explicit representations of women’s sexuality and bodies that emphasize African women’s power and autonomy.
Author : Joel Sartore
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 36,33 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1426217773
This book of photography represents National Geographic's Photo Ark, a major cross-platform initiative and lifelong project by photographer Joel Sartore to make portraits of the world's animals -- especially those that are endangered. His message: to know these animals is to save them. Sartore intends to photograph every animal in captivity in the world. He is circling the globe, visiting zoos and wildlife rescue centers to create studio portraits of 12,000 species, with an emphasis on those facing extinction. He has photographed more than 6,000 already and now, thanks to a multi-year partnership with National Geographic, he may reach his goal. This book showcases his animal portraits: from tiny to mammoth, from the Florida grasshopper sparrow to the greater one-horned rhinoceros. Paired with the prose of veteran wildlife writer Douglas Chadwick, this book presents an argument for saving all the species of our planet.