A01=Wyatt MacGaffey
Africa
African Studies
Anthropology
Author_Wyatt MacGaffey
Category=GTM
Category=JPA
Culture
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History
Politics
Product details
- ISBN 9780253336989
- Weight: 562g
- Dimensions: 175 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 22 Mar 2000
- Publisher: Indiana University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book is a brilliant commentary on the political culture of the BaKongo of Lower Congo (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). MacGaffey analyzes texts written by young Kongo men between 1914 -1916 to explicate KiKongo culture and to question long-cherished anthropological assumptions.
Wyatt MacGaffey, formerly John R. Coleman Professor of Social Sciences at Haverford College, has published extensively on African social structure, history, art, religion, and politics. His books include Custom and Government in the Lower Congo (1970), Religion and society in Central Africa (1986), and Astonishment and Power (1993; with Michael D. Harris). IN 1994 he was awarded a Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
