Kongo Political Culture
The Conceptual Challenge of the Particular
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19902952 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wyatt Macgaffey (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Pages | 274 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Kongo political culture (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/2171.0 |
| OpenAlex | W4409447092 |
| Open Library | OL45810M |
| ISBN | 9780253336989 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 131 |
A brilliant commentary on the political culture of the BaKongo of Lower Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) by a well-known anthropologist
Political culture · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Law · Africa · Africa - Central · Central · Central Africa · Esaya, Lutete · Ethnology · History · Kongo (african people) · Lutete Esaya · politics and government · Power (Social sciences) · rites and ceremonies · Witchcraft
Photographie, un objet du pouvoir
Colonial Impotence
The Making of Kongo Identity in the American Diaspora
Kongo Cosmopolitans in the Nineteenth Century
Precolonial Imaginaries and Colonial Legacies in Mobutu’s “Authentic” Zaïre
The Eastern Border of the Kongo Kingdom
A Central African Kingdom
The Origins of Kongo
From America to Africa
From Image to Grave and Back
Introduction
Ceramics Decorated with Woven Motifs
‘To Make Book’
Soyo and Kongo
The Social Consequences of Traditional Religion in Contemporary Africa
Reification and Fetishism
On the origin of the royal Kongo title ngangula
The Archaeology of Greek and Roman Troy
The Kongo Kingdom
Pour une archéologie du royaume Kongo
Moral circumscriptions
Aniotoandnebeli
Matrilineal motives
Of substances, palaces, and museums
Leaving Ruins
Understanding African women’s access to landed property in nineteenth-century Benguela
Potlatch and the articulation of modes of production
O poder político entre os Mbûndu
Shimmering Magic
Lovo, rock images, and mythology in the Land of the Kongo
The Anti-Colonial Archive
Afrikanische Pioniere
A virada e a imagem
Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory’. Taking stock and looking forward
African Freedom
Of writing and freedom in Sony Labou Tansi’s novel Life and a Half
All God's Children Had Wings
Group Identity, Individual Creativity, and Symbolic Generation in a BaKongo Diaspora
Contradictions at the Heart of the Canon
Family and labour in an Angolan cash-crop economy, 1910
An Ethnographic Comparison of Caribbean Quadrilles
Interrupting the economy of miracles
De la modernité comme impuissance. Fétichisme et crise du politique en Afrique équatoriale et ailleurs
Bamana Identity, State Formation, and the Sources of Bamana Art
Medicine for Hatred
The Cultural Dimensions of Development in Africa
Spirits, Power and the Political Imagination in Late-Colonial Gabon
The Political Economy of Migration and Reputation in Kinshasa
Photography and the Religious Encounter
Masks Versus Cattle
African-European Contacts in the Kongo Kingdom (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries)
Violence and Vulnerability in East Africa before 1800 CE
Anthropology in Area Studies
Black knowledge on the move
Missionary Expertise, Social Science, and the uses of Ethnographic Knowledge in Colonial Gabon
Mixing, Moving, Making, Meaning
Anioto
African Voices From the Congo Coast
When People Cross Thresholds
Super Fly
Separating Fact from Fiction in the Aiolian Migration
Killing God
Authority that is customary
Carnal technologies and the double life of the body in Gabon
Miracles, Rituals, Heritage
Envisioning the Future
A Note on Vansina's Invention of Matrilinearity
Versions of the Dead
Modernity and Its Aspirants
Do Congo ao Coração da Europa, outros discursos para antigas diferenças raciais
Love and money in Kinois popular music
Mukombozi and Themonganga
Expérience migratoire et exil social dans la migration congolaise
Prendas-Ngangas-Enquisos
The dialogical collective
| Unique citing works | 75 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,46 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 130 |