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" The Kongo Kingdom : "
edited by Koen Bostoen, University of Ghent, Belgium ; Inge Brinkman, University of Ghent, Belgium.
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BL
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839554
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The Kongo Kingdom : : the origins, dynamics and cosmopolitan culture of an African polity /\ edited by Koen Bostoen, University of Ghent, Belgium ; Inge Brinkman, University of Ghent, Belgium.
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Cambridge :: Cambridge University Press,, 2018.
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, ©2018
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1 online resource (xii, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :: illustrations, maps
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1108564828
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: 1108573282
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1108463924
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1108474187
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9781108463928
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9781108474184
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Introduction: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Kongo History; The KongoKing project; From Missionary to Cross- disciplinary Approaches to Kongo History; The Present Volume; Acknowledgements; Part I The Origins and Dynamics of the Kongo Kingdom; 1 The Origins of Kongo: A Revised Vision; Earliest Traditions: Vungu and Mbata; Cavazzi's Traditions: Local Stories; Cadornega and Cardoso: The Seven Kingdoms of Kongo dia Nlaza; Mbanza Kongo and the Founding of the Kingdom.
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4 Soyo and KongoSoyo in Early Kongo; Elevating Soyo: Revisionism in 1591; Soyo as Kingmaker; The Count Displaced: The da Silvas in Mbamba; Soyo under Kongo; Aftermath: Soyo in Kongo's Decentralization; Acknowledgements; 5 The Eastern Border of the Kongo Kingdom: On Relocating the Hydronym Barbela; Introduction; The Concept of 'Border' in Pre-colonial Africa; The Inkisi as the Kingdom's Eastern Border; Reassessing Barbela in Pigafetta's work; The Barbela on Maps of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; Part II Kongo's Cosmopolitan Culture and the Wider World.
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6 From Image to Grave and Back: Multidisciplinary Inquiries into Kongo Christian Visual CultureIntroduction; The Case for Multidisciplinarity; Framing Nsundi; Plates; Reckoning with Finery, Power, and Gender; Of Swords, Men, and Crosses; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; 7 Ceramics Decorated with Woven Motifs: An Archaeological Kongo Kingdom Identifier?; Introduction; Raffia Cloth and Basketry in the Kongo; Archaeological Ceramics; Group II; The Dimba Style Group; The Misenga Style Group; The D-pots; Woven Ware; Discussion; Conclusion; Acknowledgements.
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8 From America to Africa: How Kongo Nobility Made Smoking Pipes Their OwnIntroduction; The Introduction of Tobacco and Smoking Pipes in the Kongo Kingdom According to the Historical Sources; Archaeological Evidence of Kongo Kingdom Tobacco Pipes Between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Conclusions; 9 'To Make Book': A Conceptual Historical Approach to Kongo Book Cultures (Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries); Introduction; Literary Practices in the Kongo Region; Production and Spread of Books in the Kongo Region; Words for 'Book' in the Kikongo Language Cluster.
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Conclusions: The Finalizing of KongoAcknowledgements; 2 A Central African Kingdom: Kongo in 1480; Perspective and Method; A Cultural Tradition; Ambition and Centralization; The Nature of Political Leadership; Kongo and the Portuguese; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; 3 Seventeenth-Century Kikongo Is Not the Ancestor of Present-Day Kikongo; Introduction; Position of Seventeenth-Century Kikongo in a Diachronic Lexicon-based Phylogeny; Retroflexion of *d in Front of High Front Vowels; Intervocalic Lenition of *p; Intervocalic Loss of *b; Phonological Augment Merger; Conclusions; Acknowledgements.
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"The Kongo kingdom, which arose in the Atlantic Coast region of West-Central Africa, is a famous emblem of Africa's past yet little is still known of its origins and early history. This book sheds new light on that all important period and goes on to explain the significance of its cosmopolitan culture in the wider world. Bringing together different new strands of historical evidence as well as scholars from disciplines as diverse as anthropology, archaeology, art history, history and linguistics, it is the first book to approach the history of this famous Central African kingdom from a cross-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are written by distinguished and/or upcoming experts of Kongo history with a focus on political space, taking us through processes of centralisation and decentralisation, the historical politics of extraversion and internal dynamics, and the geographical distribution of aspects of material and immaterial Kongo culture"--
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HISTORY-- Africa-- Central.
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Kongo Kingdom, History.
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Africa, Kongo Kingdom.
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Königreich Kongo
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| Dewey Classification
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967.51/1401
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DT654.K67 2018eb
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Bostoen, Koen A. G.
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Brinkman, Inge
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