South Africa category: 561 books

“My planne is reeds agtermekaar. Ek gaan van Kingsberg ’n onvervreembare erfenis maak tot ná die vierde geslag. So sal ek sorg dat niemand hier afbreek wat ek opgebou het nie. Niemand sal hier iets kan doen wat die volgende geslagte benadeel nie.” Voordat John Adams hierdie uitspraak maak,...

»Bang-Bang Paparazzi« nannte das südafrikanische Lifestyle-Magazin Living 1992 die Johannesburger Fotografengruppe um Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich, Ken Oosterbroek und João Silva. Bang-Bang, weil die vier mit ihren Kameras immer vor Ort waren, als in den Jahren 1990 bis 1994, den Jahren zwischen...

A collection of three accounts of Peril, Adventure and Captivity in the 18th and 19th century : "The Sufferings of the Picard Family after the Shipwreck of the Medusa in the Year 1816" : Tells the story of survivors of the the French naval frigate Méduse, which ran aground...

Bantu Contribution in Brazilian Popular Music: Ethnomusicological Perspectives is a seminal work that spearheaded the new trend in ethnomusicology, when this discipline shifted the focus of its objective from music in human history to music in culture contact, and from the comparative method of analysis...

Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe. By tracing the steps of this powerful African healer and vodun priest, James Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding a history of the eighteenth-century...

The transplantation of African musical cultures to the Americas was a multi-track and multi-time process. In the past many historical studies of African diaspora music, dance and other aspects of expressive culture concentrated on events in the Americas. What happened before the American trauma and...

Brazil owes a significant portion of its social and cultural heritage of several West and Central African cultures. Due to his intensive knowledge of the African culture renown ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik has studied the presence of African culture phenomena in several research trips in Brazil....

Freedom by a Thread: The History of Quilombos in Brazil *brings together some of the best scholars in the world working on the history of *quilombos (maroon societies) in Brazil from a variety of perspectives and approaches. Over 40 percent of the total volume of captive Africans arrived in Brazil...

‘This extraordinary collection is a game-changer. Featuring the cutting-edge work of over forty scholars from across the globe, The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties is breathtaking in its range, incisive in analyses, and revolutionary in method and evidence. Here, fifty years after that...

In the summer of 1980, a maverick young doctor gave it all up, to hitchhike around the world. The first arc he carved with his thumb stopped a little red pickup that took him over the horizon. Like his mythical hunter companion, Orion, he was on a vision quest, propelled toward the dawn to...

Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia has built its economy around attracting international tourists to what is billed as the locus of Afro-Brazilian culture and the epicenter of Brazilian racial harmony. Yet this inclusive ideal has a complicated past. Chronicling the discourse among intellectuals...

How do former enemies reconcile after civil wars? Do they ever really reconcile in any complete sense? How is political reunification related to longer-term cultural reintegration? Bringing together experts on civil wars around the modern world – the United States, Spain, Rwanda, Colombia, Russia,...

For almost a hundred years, a nation of fugitive Africans, Indians, whites, and mixed races fought off the world’s most powerful empires in a struggle to survive in freedom. Over the span of the 17th century, the Quilombo dos Palmares melded several cultures to form its own language, religion,...

Parfois drôle, parfois triste, mais souvent émouvant, ce livre nous raconte des histoires uniques qui vous feront voir le monde d’un œil différent. De l’Inde jusqu’au désert de Gobi, en passant par l’Amérique du Sud et l’Afrique, ces témoignages...