Phyllis Martin
Biographic Data
| ID | 6182527 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phyllis Martin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phyllis |
| FAMILY NAME | Martin |
| SIGNATURE | MARTIN P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The trade of Loango in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
This chapter describes in detail both the pre-European and the early trade of the Loango coast with Europeans in commodities such as copper, palm-cloth, skins, redwood, ivory and elephants’ tails. The Vili people on the Loango coast obtained these products from the interior of West Central Africa and organized their sale both to African consumers and to the Europeans on the coast. By 1670, the Dutch West India Company was exporting 3,000 slaves a…
Complexity in the Missionary Experience
The contradictions that permeated the missionary experience can be lost through the use of words such as “encounter” and “civilizing.” This study seeks to illustrate the complementary and competing forces that impinged on the work of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary sisters in Upper Congo. It emphasizes their commitment to social action and evangelism through work, their interaction with local women and local knowledge, the particular colonial…
For the City Yet to Come
Reviewed by: For the City yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities Phyllis M. Martin Simone, AbdouMaliq . 2004. For The City Yet To Come: Changing African Life In Four Cities. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 297 pp., $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). According to a recent report on global urbanization by the United Nation's Population Division, a majority of Africans will live in cities by 2025. Although such reports are wisely framed…
The Kongolese Saint Anthony
This book tells the story of the Christian religious movement led by Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita in the Kingdom of Kongo from 1704 until her death, by burning at the stake, in 1706. Beatriz, a young woman, claimed to be possessed by St Anthony, argued that Jesus was a Kongolese, and criticized Italian Capuchin missionaries in her country for not supporting black saints. The movement was largely a peace movement, with a following among the common peop…
History of Central Africa
C. Didier Gondola, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 33, No. 2/3, Special Issue: French-Speaking Central Africa: Political Dynamics of Identities and Representations (1999), pp. 708-709
Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville
In this book, Phyllis Martin, a well-known Africanist scholar, opens up a whole new field of African research: the leisure activities of urban Africans. Her comprehensive study, set in colonial Brazzaville and based on a wide variety of written sources and interviews, investigates recreational activities from football and fashion to music, dance and night life. In it, she brings out the ways in which these activities built social networks, humani…
History of Central Africa
History of Central Africa
An authoritative account and analysis of what has happened to the region of central Africa since the period of vigorous decolonization in the 1960s, this volume compares the legacies of British, French and Portuguese colonization. History of Central Africa examines the modern nations of Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Gabon, Malawi, Mozambique, Zaire, Zambia, and Zimbabwe; and considers the impact on the region of the eth…
Historical Dictionary of Angola
African History
The external trade of the Loango Coast, 1576-1870
Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville
In this book, Phyllis Martin, a well-known Africanist scholar, opens up a whole new field of African research: the leisure activities of urban Africans. Her comprehensive study, set in colonial Brazzaville and based on a wide variety of written sources and interviews, investigates recreational activities from football and fashion to music, dance and night life. In it, she brings out the ways in which these activities built social networks, humani…
The Kongolese Saint Anthony
This book tells the story of the Christian religious movement led by Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita in the Kingdom of Kongo from 1704 until her death, by burning at the stake, in 1706. Beatriz, a young woman, claimed to be possessed by St Anthony, argued that Jesus was a Kongolese, and criticized Italian Capuchin missionaries in her country for not supporting black saints. The movement was largely a peace movement, with a following among the common peop…
Historical Dictionary of Angola
History of Central Africa
C. Didier Gondola, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 33, No. 2/3, Special Issue: French-Speaking Central Africa: Political Dynamics of Identities and Representations (1999), pp. 708-709
Complexity in the Missionary Experience
The contradictions that permeated the missionary experience can be lost through the use of words such as “encounter” and “civilizing.” This study seeks to illustrate the complementary and competing forces that impinged on the work of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary sisters in Upper Congo. It emphasizes their commitment to social action and evangelism through work, their interaction with local women and local knowledge, the particular colonial…
The external trade of the Loango Coast, 1576-1870
African History
Historical Dictionary of Angola
History of Central Africa
An authoritative account and analysis of what has happened to the region of central Africa since the period of vigorous decolonization in the 1960s, this volume compares the legacies of British, French and Portuguese colonization. History of Central Africa examines the modern nations of Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Gabon, Malawi, Mozambique, Zaire, Zambia, and Zimbabwe; and considers the impact on the region of the eth…
History of Central Africa
Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville
In this book, Phyllis Martin, a well-known Africanist scholar, opens up a whole new field of African research: the leisure activities of urban Africans. Her comprehensive study, set in colonial Brazzaville and based on a wide variety of written sources and interviews, investigates recreational activities from football and fashion to music, dance and night life. In it, she brings out the ways in which these activities built social networks, humani…
History of Central Africa
C. Didier Gondola, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 33, No. 2/3, Special Issue: French-Speaking Central Africa: Political Dynamics of Identities and Representations (1999), pp. 708-709
The Kongolese Saint Anthony
This book tells the story of the Christian religious movement led by Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita in the Kingdom of Kongo from 1704 until her death, by burning at the stake, in 1706. Beatriz, a young woman, claimed to be possessed by St Anthony, argued that Jesus was a Kongolese, and criticized Italian Capuchin missionaries in her country for not supporting black saints. The movement was largely a peace movement, with a following among the common peop…
For the City Yet to Come
Reviewed by: For the City yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities Phyllis M. Martin Simone, AbdouMaliq . 2004. For The City Yet To Come: Changing African Life In Four Cities. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 297 pp., $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). According to a recent report on global urbanization by the United Nation's Population Division, a majority of Africans will live in cities by 2025. Although such reports are wisely framed…
Complexity in the Missionary Experience
The contradictions that permeated the missionary experience can be lost through the use of words such as “encounter” and “civilizing.” This study seeks to illustrate the complementary and competing forces that impinged on the work of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary sisters in Upper Congo. It emphasizes their commitment to social action and evangelism through work, their interaction with local women and local knowledge, the particular colonial…
The trade of Loango in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
This chapter describes in detail both the pre-European and the early trade of the Loango coast with Europeans in commodities such as copper, palm-cloth, skins, redwood, ivory and elephants’ tails. The Vili people on the Loango coast obtained these products from the interior of West Central Africa and organized their sale both to African consumers and to the Europeans on the coast. By 1670, the Dutch West India Company was exporting 3,000 slaves a…
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