The Kongo Kingdom : the origins, dynamics and cosmopolitan culture of an African polity / edited by Koen Bostoen, Inge Brinkman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bostoen, Koen A. G., editor.

Brinkman, Inge, editor.

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kongo Kingdom--History.

Kongo Kingdom.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction: cross-disciplinary approaches to Kongo history / Koen Bostoen and Inge Brinkman

Part I. The Origins and Dynamics of the Kongo Kingdom

The origins of Kongo: a revised vision / John K. Thornton

A central African kingdom: Kongo in 1480 / Wyatt MacGaffey

Seventeenth-century Kikongo is not the ancestor of present-day Kikongo / Koen Bostoen and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver

Soyo and Kongo: the undoing of the Kingdom's centralisation / John K. Thornton

The Eastern Border of the Kongo kingdom: on relocating the Hydronym Barbela / Igor Matonda

Part II. Kongo's Cosmopolitan Culture and the Wider World

From image to grave and back: multidisciplinary inquiries into Kongo Christian visual culture / Cecile Fromont

Ceramics decorated with woven motifs: an archaeological Kongo kingdom identifier? / Els Cranshof, Nicolas Nikis and Pierre de Maret

From America to Africa: how Kongo nobility made smoking pipes their own / Bernard Clist

'To make book': a conceptual historical approach to Kongo book cultures (sixteenth-nineteenth centuries) / Inge Brinkman and Koen Bostoen

Kongo cosmopolitans in the nineteenth century / Jelmer Vos

The making of Kongo identity in the American diaspora: a case study from Brazil / Linda Heywood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ebook version :

ISBN:

9781108564823

1108564828

Publisher Number:

40028728855

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