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Congo style : from Belgian art nouveau to African independence
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ISBN: 0472903888 047205631X 0472076310 Year: 2023 Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II's Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko's totalitarian Zaïre. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious modernist architecture and art in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. From the total artworks of Art Nouveau to the aggrandizing sites of post-independence Kinshasa, Congo Style investigates the experiential qualities of man-made environments intended to entertain, delight, seduce and impress. In her study of visual culture, Ruth Sacks sets out to reinstate the compelling wonder of nationalist architecture from Kinshasa's post-independence era, such as the Tower of the Exchange (1974), Gécamines Tower (1977), and the artworks and exhibitions that accompanied them. While exploring post-independence nation-building, this book examines how the underlying ideology of Belgian Art Nouveau, a celebrated movement in Belgium, led to the dominating early colonial settler buildings of the ABC Hotels (circa 1908-13). Congo Style combines Sacks's practice as a visual artist and her academic scholarship to provide an original study of early colonial and independence-era modernist sites in their African context.


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The making of the Pentecostal melodrama : religion, media and gender in Kinshasa
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ISBN: 9780857454942 9781782386810 9780857454959 0857454943 0857454951 1282254227 9786613814876 9781282254220 6613814873 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study. Influenced by Nigerian films and intimately related to the emergence of a charismatic Christian scene, these teleserials integrate melodrama, conversion narratives, Christian songs, sermons, testimonies, and deliverance rituals to produce commentaries on what it means to be an inhabitant of Kinshasa.

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Sociology of religion --- Mass communications --- Sociology of culture --- Kinshasa --- Video recording in ethnology --- Television in religion --- Vidéo en ethnologie --- Eglises pentecôtistes --- Télévision et religion --- Social condtions. --- Religious television --- Televangelism --- Television, Religious --- Religious broadcasting --- Vidéo en ethnologie --- Eglises pentecôtistes --- Télévision et religion --- Anthropology of religion --- Motion pictures in ethnology --- Pentecostal churches --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Visual anthropology --- Television broadcasting --- Pentecostalism --- Moving-pictures in ethnology --- Religious anthropology --- Ethnology --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Religious aspects --- Kinshasa (Congo) --- Kinshasa, Zaire --- Kinshasha (Congo) --- Kinshasa (Zaire) --- Ville de Kinshasa (Congo) --- Ville-Province de Kinshasa (Congo) --- Leopoldville (Congo) --- Politics and government. --- Religious life and customs. --- Social conditions. --- Cinéma en anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Anthropologie religieuse --- Religious life and customs --- Vie religieuse --- Conditions sociales --- Politique et gouvernement --- Anthropology of Religion, Media Studies, Anthropology (General), Gender Studies and Sexuality. --- ethnography --- social dynamics in an evangelizing activity group --- moral movements --- confession --- Christianity --- Christian popular culture --- matrimony --- urban sexuality --- sex --- religion and media --- divine afflatus


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Tropical cowboys : Westerns, violence, and masculinity in Kinshasa
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ISBN: 9780253020666 0253020662 9780253020772 0253020778 9780253020802 0253020808 Year: 2016 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

Kinshasa : tales of the invisible city
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ISBN: 9055445282 9789055445288 Year: 2004 Publisher: Bruxelles : Tervuren : Ludion ; Royal Museum for Central Africa,

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publicatie n.a.v. de tentoonstelling gehouden te Venetië (architectuur Biennale) van 9 september tot 7 november 2004

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architectuur --- ruimtelijke ordening --- culturele antropologie --- Sociology of culture --- Environmental planning --- Architecture --- social anthropology --- Sociology of environment --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- comprehensive plans [reports] --- Kinshasa --- 711.4 --- Congo --- Democratische Republiek Congo --- Plissart, Marie-Françoise --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:39A8 --- Steden cultuur Afrika Congo Kinshasa --- Thema's in de fotografie steden Kinshasa --- Fotografen 2004 Marie-Françoise Plissart --- Biennale van Venetië (2004) 9de internationale architectuurtentoonstelling Belgisch paviljoen --- 71(6) --- by Filip De Boeck & Marie-Françoise Plissart --- fotografie --- Plissart Marie-Françoise --- stadsfotografie --- antropologie --- stedenbouw --- stedelijkheid --- documentaire fotografie --- reportagefotografie --- 77.071 PLISSART --- 77.044 PLISSART --- Stedenbouw --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Antropologie: linguïstiek, audiovisuele cultuur, antropologie van media en representatie --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening Afrika --- Ethnology --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Kinshasa (Congo) --- Urbanisme --- Aspect social --- Kinshasa (Congo, République démocratique) --- Conditions sociales --- History of civilization --- Steden ; cultuur ; Afrika ; Congo ; Kinshasa --- Thema's in de fotografie ; steden ; Kinshasa --- Fotografen ; 2004 ; Marie-Françoise Plissart --- Biennale van Venetië (2004) ; 9de internationale architectuurtentoonstelling ; Belgisch paviljoen --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; Afrika --- Kinshasa, Zaire --- Kinshasha (Congo) --- Kinshasa (Zaire) --- Ville de Kinshasa (Congo) --- Ville-Province de Kinshasa (Congo) --- Leopoldville (Congo) --- Religious life and customs. --- Social life and customs. --- Social life and customs --- Religious life and customs --- Conditions sociales. --- Kinshasa (Congo) - Social life and customs --- Kinshasa (Congo) - Religious life and customs

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