Kongo Political Culture: The Conceptual Challenge of the ParticularIndiana University Press, 2000 M03 22 - 274 pages 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Texts and Contexts | 18 |
MAPS | 25 |
Translation Exoticism Banality | 43 |
83 | 53 |
Tradition and Trade | 61 |
Trade Routes | 73 |
PHOTOGRAPHS | 98 |
Kongo chief Mayombe | 137 |
Minkisi to Kill People Swiftly | 245 |
Lutetes Chiefs | 252 |
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Reference List | |
Common terms and phrases
African Babutidi BaKongo banganga bantu BaSundi bisimbi Bittremieux body Boma bonso bulu buna buried Cahier called century chiefship Children and Grandchildren clan Congo cultural dead death described divination Doutreloux ethnographic European forest included invested chief investiture Janzen kadi kaka kala kanda kansi Kavuna Kayi KiKongo killed kimfumu kina kindoki Kingoyi Kinkela Kinkenge kuna kwandi Laman Lemba leopard lineage Lolo lulendo Lunungu Lusunzi Lutete Lutete's MacGaffey 1991 Manianga Matadi matrilineal Matunta Mayombe mbalala Mbangala Mbanza Kongo Mboki Mbola Mbuku Mbumba medicines metaphor mfinda mfumu minkisi Minsamu Miayenge missionaries mpemba Mukimbungu muna muntu Musana Mwema nails nate ye nganga ngolo Ngoma Ngoyo nkisi nsi nkondi nkosi nkumbu Nsemi Nsundi ntama original palm wine Pangu person political ritual rule says simbi slaves social spirits texts trade tradition translation tree Vansina village violence Vungu wena witchcraft witches yala yandi yina