Kennell Jackson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3613892 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kennell Jackson |
| PRENOMES | Kennell |
| SOBRENOME | Jackson |
| ASSINATURA | JACKSON K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Stanford University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Black Cultural Traffic
"A shrewdly designed, generously expansive, timely contribution to our understanding of how 'black' expression continues to define and defy the contours of global (post)modernity. The essays argue persuasively for a transnational ethos binding disparate African and diasporic enactments, and together provide a robust conversation about the nature, history, future, and even possibility of 'blackness' as a distinctive mode of cultural practice." --K…
The Power of African Cultures
Journal Article Toyin Falola. The Power of African Cultures. Rochester, N.Y. University of Rochester Press. 2003. Pp. xiii. 354. $75.00 Get access Toyin Falola. The Power of African Cultures.Rochester, N.Y. University of Rochester Press. 2003. Pp. xiii. 354. $75.00. Kennell A. Jackson, Jr. Kennell A. Jackson, Jr. Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 110…
African Modernities
Introduction: cherished visions & entangled meanings by Jan-Georg Deutsch, Peter Probst & Heike Schmidt - West Africa: modernity & modernization by Richard Rathbone - Kenyatta, God & the modern world by John Lonsdale - Dislocation, memory & modernity: the prophet Isaiah Shembe and the search for voice & space by Liz Gunner - Images of an African modernity: the Likoni Ferry photographers of Mombasa, Kenya by Heike Behrend - Governmentality, materi…
The Short Century
For much of Africa the 20th century was overshadowed by the experience of colonial rule, with politcal independence arriving for most people only in the last 50 years. Short Century is a broad survey of cultural life in Africa from the independence movements through the post-colonial era to the end of apartheid in 1994. Expansive, wide-ranging and illustrated, this book studies achievements in all areas of the performing and fine arts, photograph…
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
African Novels in the Classroom
The Powers of Genre
The Powers of Genre describes a method for interpreting oral literature that enables dialogue between insiders and outsiders to a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with lively examples from Haya (from Northwestern Tanzania) proverbs, folktales, and heroic verse. He then focuses on a single epic ballad to demonstrate, among other things, why stanzas need not rhyme, and how significance needs time in oral poetry and narrative. He makes a co…
Chiefship in Western Tanzania
The Family Entity and Famine Among the Nineteenth-Century Akamba of Kenya
A History of the Kikuyu, 1500-1900
The Akamba and Christianity
Tanzania Before 1900
Tanzania Before 1900
The Short Century
For much of Africa the 20th century was overshadowed by the experience of colonial rule, with politcal independence arriving for most people only in the last 50 years. Short Century is a broad survey of cultural life in Africa from the independence movements through the post-colonial era to the end of apartheid in 1994. Expansive, wide-ranging and illustrated, this book studies achievements in all areas of the performing and fine arts, photograph…
Tanzania Before 1900
The Akamba and Christianity
Chiefship in Western Tanzania
The Family Entity and Famine Among the Nineteenth-Century Akamba of Kenya
A History of the Kikuyu, 1500-1900
The Powers of Genre
The Powers of Genre describes a method for interpreting oral literature that enables dialogue between insiders and outsiders to a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with lively examples from Haya (from Northwestern Tanzania) proverbs, folktales, and heroic verse. He then focuses on a single epic ballad to demonstrate, among other things, why stanzas need not rhyme, and how significance needs time in oral poetry and narrative. He makes a co…
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
African Novels in the Classroom
African Modernities
Introduction: cherished visions & entangled meanings by Jan-Georg Deutsch, Peter Probst & Heike Schmidt - West Africa: modernity & modernization by Richard Rathbone - Kenyatta, God & the modern world by John Lonsdale - Dislocation, memory & modernity: the prophet Isaiah Shembe and the search for voice & space by Liz Gunner - Images of an African modernity: the Likoni Ferry photographers of Mombasa, Kenya by Heike Behrend - Governmentality, materi…
The Short Century
For much of Africa the 20th century was overshadowed by the experience of colonial rule, with politcal independence arriving for most people only in the last 50 years. Short Century is a broad survey of cultural life in Africa from the independence movements through the post-colonial era to the end of apartheid in 1994. Expansive, wide-ranging and illustrated, this book studies achievements in all areas of the performing and fine arts, photograph…
Black Cultural Traffic
"A shrewdly designed, generously expansive, timely contribution to our understanding of how 'black' expression continues to define and defy the contours of global (post)modernity. The essays argue persuasively for a transnational ethos binding disparate African and diasporic enactments, and together provide a robust conversation about the nature, history, future, and even possibility of 'blackness' as a distinctive mode of cultural practice." --K…
The Power of African Cultures
Journal Article Toyin Falola. The Power of African Cultures. Rochester, N.Y. University of Rochester Press. 2003. Pp. xiii. 354. $75.00 Get access Toyin Falola. The Power of African Cultures.Rochester, N.Y. University of Rochester Press. 2003. Pp. xiii. 354. $75.00. Kennell A. Jackson, Jr. Kennell A. Jackson, Jr. Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 110…
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