Download or read book Les masques du pouvoir politique en Afrique written by Roger mawuto Afan and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En Afrique, la vie sociale ne lie-t-elle pas de façon intrinsèque mystère et pouvoir, relations affectives et rapports d'autorité ? Ceux qui incarnent le pouvoir politique en Afrique sont comme des masques à plusieurs visages. Même le renouveau démocratique, par ses promotions clientélistes et ses luttes factionnelles participe de cette dimension ambiguë du pouvoir. Par conséquent, la science politique contemporaine doit doter les Africains d'une terminologie adéquate afin qu'on cesse de considérer son exercice comme un simple rapport de domination entre gouvernants et gouvernés.
Download or read book Image of U S Presidential Administrations written by Célia Belim and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-12-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the image of the U.S. presidential administrations from 2001 to 2011 and their political image in foreign countries. The authors focus on the European perception of U.S. presidencies, specifically during the terms of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Political image is decisive in electoral victory and, more often, is central in the conquest and maintenance of political power. Political image is also highly relevant because of the credibility of the United States on the international stage, resulting in gained confidence and the celebration of profitable alliances. This study of political image has a crucial interdisciplinary framework fordisciplines such as communication, political science, and international relations.
Download or read book Le S n gal sous Abdoulaye Wade written by Momar-Coumba Diop and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2013 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ce volume fait suite à celui consacré aux institutions et politiques publiques pendant les deux mandats présidentiels d'Abdoulaye Wade publié précédemment par le même éditeur. Il s'inscrit dans la continuité de la réflexion entreprise, depuis la fin des années 1980, sous la direction de Momar-Coumba Diop, pour documenter les trajectoires de l'État sénégalais et de ses relations avec la société. Cet ouvrage examine le rôle joué par Abdoulaye Wade à l'intérieur du "cycle senghorien" qui a dominé la vie du Sénégal depuis 1960. Il propose des outils d'analyse permettant de décrypter le projet hégémonique d'Abdoulaye Wade, en analysant aussi bien ses relations avec la confrérie mouride que les initiatives destinées à ramener la paix en Casamance. Dévoilant les logiques à l'oeuvre dans les syndicats, les partis politiques, les confréries religieuses, les mouvements citoyens, la presse, cet ouvrage collectif rend compte, sur la base de données inédites, des changements identifiés dans les systèmes de valeurs, les itinéraires et les protocoles d'enrichissement ou d'accumulation de pouvoir. Grâce à des approches novatrices, il aborde les recompositions qui s'expriment à travers la musique, les associations, les migrations internationales, la coopération sud-sud, les usages des TIC ou le football. Les livres consacrés au président Wade et à sa gouvernante sont également examinés avec attention et le rôle du griot dans le système de propagande officielle est analysé de manière originale. Ce volume aborde, ensuite, les réactions populaires aux défaillances ou aux dérives du pouvoir central, et les autres formes de résistance au régime du Sopi. Il insiste, enfin, sur le rôle des Assises nationales dans l'émergence et la consolidation du mouvement de contestation qui a mis un terme au régime d'Abdoulaye Wade. Cet ouvrage représente la première tentative d'envergure d'histoire économique, sociale et culturelle de la période considérée. Rédigé dans un style serein, il constitue, avec le précédent, un précieux outil de référence pour ceux qui s'intéressent, à des degrés divers, à la construction de l'avenir du Sénégal."--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Conflictualit s Contemporaines written by Pascal Touoyem and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comment penser la puissance africaine et les enjeux de la transition hgmonique globale au 21e sicle ? Telle est la question thmatique centrale de cet ouvrage qui se veut un cahier de recherche doctrinale en polmologie et en irnologie endognes, dans un contexte o la mondialisation des enjeux scuritaires signifie pour lAfrique, un reclassement gostratgique du continent o le maintien de la paix et la rsolution des conflits sont devenus un terrain daffirmation de puissance. Analytique et oprationnelle, cette publication est le fruit de nombreuses expriences de terrain, de missions denseignements, de travaux ditoriaux, de publications scientifiques et de confrences internationales.
Download or read book Masquerades in African Society written by Walter E. A. Van Beek and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the dynamics of African masquerades and mask performances on the continent, linking performative expressions to societal characteristics. What is the meaning of masks and masquerades in African traditions and how can we understand their role in rituals and performances? Why do we find masks in some African regions and not in others, and what does this 'mask habitat' say about the general dynamics of masquerades in Africa? Though masks are among the most famous art icons of Africa, exploration of their uses and the way in which they articulate social characteristics of African societies has been underexamined. This book takes an anthropological perspective on the phenomenon of masquerades on the African continent to show how mask rituals are an integral part of African indigenous religions and societies, and are informed by and linked to specific types of social and ecological conditions. Having established the commonalities of mask rituals and a mask typology, the authors look at the varieties of mask performances and the types of rituals in which masks function in rites of passage and in rituals of gender, power, and identity. The following chapters focus on different types of rituals featuring masks, from initiation and death ceremonies to secrecy, kingship, law and war. With its broad examination of the use of masks on the continent, from Angola to Burkina Faso, Cameroon, DRC, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, this well illustrated book will stand as an authoritative study of the use of masks, of interest not only to those in African Studies but to anthropologists and ethnographers worldwide.
Download or read book Africa Development written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quarterly journal of the Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa = Revue trimestrielle du conseil pour le développement de la recherche economique et sociale en Afrique.
Download or read book CREATIVITY IMAGINARY LANGUAGE written by CLAUDIU MARIAN BUNĂIAȘU and published by Infinite Study. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As postmodern inhabitants and passengers through space, we are capable of capturing images of the city and of conceiving different modalities of incorporating spatiality into our peculiar ways of being in the world, and ways of dealing with the challenge that the complex reality of space represents to us.
Download or read book Arts d Afrique written by Musée d'Aquitaine de la ville de Bordeaux and published by Hazan. This book was released on 2011 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En réunissant plus de 200 oeuvres d’art exceptionnelles – pour la plupart jamais présentées au public – provenant de grandes collections privées et publiques européennes, le musée d’Aquitaine à Bordeaux propose, à travers l’exposition Arts d’Afrique, voir l’invisible du 21 mars 2011 au 21 août 2011, une lecture originale de la création africaine. Son rapport à l’invisible, révélateur d’une vision du monde singulière, est indispensable pour comprendre et découvrir les richesses passées et présentes des cultures du continent africain. Un premier espace couvre les principales aires culturelles de production des masques. Il présente des ensembles complets de masques avec costumes exceptionnels. Le deuxième espace évoque la spécificité de la statuaire africaine également perçue comme agent de communicatio avec l’invisible qui se manifeste entre autres au travers de rituels de protection ou de guérison; Le dernier espace traite de différents accessoires (boîtes,paniers, plateaux, figurines, cloches, talismans, agrégats...)qui, entre les mains des praticiens, permettent le contact avec l’invisible et restent des instruments énigmatiques. L’authenticité, la représentativité et le caractère inédit des oeuvres ont guidé le choix des objets provenant de musées français et européens (Quai Branly, Tervuren, Neuchâtel, Dapper) et de collectionneurs privés qui ont consenti des prêts exceptionnels au musée d’Aquitaine.
Download or read book Ibss Anthropology 1975 written by International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1978-08-24 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1978. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Persona written by Anne-Marie Bouttiaux and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With images of African masks alongside contemporary African art, this book presents an original look at the role of the mask in African culture. Based on an exhibition of 180 masks and works by contemporary African artists, it offers a new interpretation of the mask as the universal object that both hides and reveals.
Download or read book Statuaire de l Afrique noire written by Henri Alfred Lavachery and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ibss Anthropology 1978 written by International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1990-12-31 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought written by Abiola Irele and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From St. Augustine and early Ethiopian philosophers to the anti-colonialist movements of Pan-Africanism and Negritude, this encyclopedia offers a comprehensive view of African thought, covering the intellectual tradition both on the continent in its entirety and throughout the African Diaspora in the Americas and in Europe. The term "African thought" has been interpreted in the broadest sense to embrace all those forms of discourse - philosophy, political thought, religion, literature, important social movements - that contribute to the formulation of a distinctive vision of the world determined by or derived from the African experience. The Encyclopedia is a large-scale work of 350 entries covering major topics involved in the development of African Thought including historical figures and important social movements, producing a collection that is an essential resource for teaching, an invaluable companion to independent research, and a solid guide for further study.
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Download or read book Philosophy manual a South South perspective written by Chanthalangsy, Phinith and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book UNESCO General History of Africa Vol I Abridged Edition written by Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description
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