Author : PRUSSIN LABELLE
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 33,9 MB
Release : 1995-07-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
"Handsomely illustrated with many color photographs, this book . . . offers a massive amount of data on the technologies, styles and designs, as well as the symbolic and ritual meanings, of women's tent and related architecture in (various African) cultures".--WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS. 24 color, 66 bandw photos. 148 line drawings.
Author : Brent D. Shaw
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,91 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1040231608
The studies collected in this volume cover three broad areas of the history of North Africa as part of the Roman Empire. Studies devoted to the history of 'political institutions' are followed by ones that detail aspects of interactions between nomad and sedentarist communities in the African provinces. The book concludes with two studies on African christianity. In all of these, special attention is given to the indigenous institutions, economies and beliefs that informed the confrontation between 'African' and 'Roman'. The studies in general argue for a strongly 'interactionist' approach to historians' reconstruction of the history of the period and the region - a perspective that would emphasise the continuous conflict between the two world of African and Roman.
Author : Watson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,23 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520040311
Author : PRUSSIN LABELLE
Publisher : Smithsonian
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,92 MB
Release : 1997-07-17
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 9781560987567
"Handsomely illustrated with many color photographs, this book . . . offers a massive amount of data on the technologies, styles and designs, as well as the symbolic and ritual meanings, of women's tent and related architecture in (various African) cultures".--WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS. 24 color, 66 bandw photos. 148 line drawings.
Author : R. Bruce Hitchner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 17,65 MB
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1444350013
Explore a one-of-a-kind and authoritative resource on Ancient North Africa A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity, edited by a recognized leader in the field, is the first reference work of its kind in English. It provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of North Africa's rich history from the Protohistoric period through Late Antiquity (1000 BCE to the 800 CE). Comprised of twenty-four thematic and topical essays by established and emerging scholars covering the area between ancient Tripolitania and the Atlantic Ocean, including the Sahara, the volume introduces readers to Ancient North Africa's environment, peoples, institutions, literature, art, economy and more, taking into account the significant body of new research and fieldwork that has been produced over the last fifty years. A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity is an essential resource for anyone interested in this important region of the Ancient World.
Author : James Morris
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 37,20 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568984138
This volume examines the complex technique of wet earth construction, as practised in parts of West Africa. It includes a variety of structures, ranging from small huts to mosques, including the mosque at Dougoumba which dates from the 12th century.
Author : Wilhelm Junker
Publisher :
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 15,54 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Author : Wilhelm Junker
Publisher :
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Africa, Central
ISBN :
Author : John Ralph Willis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1315297329
First published in 1979, this first of three volumes examines the many means and figures through which Islam was cultivated in West Africa over a prolonged period. It combines the work from eminent scholars in the field, most of which have travelled widely in the historic region of Western Sudan. This book will be of interest to those studying Islamic and West African history.
Author : Dawn Chatty
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 24,21 MB
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9047417755
A scholarly volume devoted to an understanding of contemporary nomadic and pastoral societies in the Middle East and North Africa. This volume recognizes the variable mobile quality of the ways of life of these societies which persist in accommodating the ‘nation-state’ of the 20th and 21st century but remain firmly transnational and highly adaptive. Composed of four sections around the theme of contestation it includes examinations of contested authority and power, space and social transformation, development and economic transformation, and cultures and engendered spaces.
