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What is a house? What is dwelling? How can a house be a body? What is “being modern” in rural Africa? How are local and global worlds intertwined through material culture?This book reflects on the meanings of housing in West-Africa. It analyses vernacular architectural traditions and the related ideas and worldviews grounding these building traditions. In the West, much attention is paid to the quality of housing in terms of material comfort and durability. However, houses do no longer grow organically, and are no longer layered by time, or embedded in a social community and intertwined with the natural environment. The house, and even more the interior of the house, has become the expression of the individuality of the inhabitant (see the whole marketing of lifestyle, design, interior decoration, cocooning, etcetera). Paradoxically, though, this goes hand in hand with the erosion of the house as a signifier. Houses are becoming almost generic realities, without a memory or a past, anonymous results of mass-production, or interchangeable, standardized products of a globalised Ikea- and key-on-the-door culture. Many of the important phases of the lifecycles of the inhabitants no longer unfold within the house, but are evacuated to spaces external to it (hospitals, restaurants, hotels, party rooms, morgues, banquet halls). In contrast to the poor signifier the Western house has become, the chapters in this book analyse the rich meanings embedded in processes of dwelling in rural West-African worlds, with a specific emphasis on Ghana and Burkina Faso. At the same time, the authors document the changes that are manifest in the material and social structures of the house, and show the flexibility and responsiveness of traditional practices of building and dwelling when confronted with influences of urban modernity. As such, this reflection on local architectural forms also deals with many of the challenges and issues currently at stake in Africa.

Sociology of environment --- Private houses --- West Africa --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Academic collection --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Architecture --- Africa [West ] --- Architecture, Domestic --- Dwellings --- Housing, Rural --- Social aspects

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995.1 --- #SBIB:39A76 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- Geschiedenis van West-Irian (Nederlands Nieuw-Guinea) --- Etnografie: Oceanië --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Theses --- 995.1 Geschiedenis van West-Irian (Nederlands Nieuw-Guinea) --- cloth --- tapa [bark cloth] --- Papua New Guinea

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This exciting collection of classic writings explores a wide range of types of performance and theatre from all over Africa. It is essential reading for all those interested in performance in rural and urban Africa.

Performing arts --- Theater --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Show business --- Recreation. Games. Sports. Corp. expression --- Theatrical science --- Africa --- Acting --- Actors --- Arts --- Performance art --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Art --- 20e siècle --- Afrique

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Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- #VCV monografie 2006 ruil --- #SBIB:39A5 --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Human ecology --- Philosophy of nature --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Philosophy --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on

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"Humor and Violence examines the rich history of portraying Europeans in Central African art in images ranging from heart-wrenching scenes of human trafficking to playful parodies of colonialists. Z. S. Strother contends that the dialectic of humor and violence reveals deep insights into the psychology of power and resistance that continues to operate in the region today. Her argument is built on a set of works of art and demonstrates the important role that patronage and political and social history played in their creation. Strother conveys Central African ideas about how the therapeutic power of humor can initiate social change and upset power relations between oppressors and oppressed. This analysis plunges seemingly benign figures into a maelstrom of violence and crime -- rape, murder, torture, and forced labor on a massive scale. By restoring the dialectic of humor, this study reveals the complicated psychological codependency of Africans and Europeans over a long period of history and maintains that art plays a mediating function in the mechanics and ethics of power."--Front cover flap.

C3 --- Congo [historische term land Congo -CG] --- kolonialisme --- slavernij --- kunstenaars --- KADOC - Documentatie- en Onderzoekscentrum voor Religie, Cultuur en Samenleving (1977-) --- Kunst en cultuur --- Art --- ethnic art --- Europe: persons --- West Africa --- Europeans in African art. --- Wit and humor in art. --- Violence in art. --- Art, Congolese (Democratic Republic) --- Art, African --- Themes, motives. --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Etnografie: Afrika --- imago