Author: René CailliéPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo
Author: René CailliéPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo
Author: René CailliéPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo and Across the Great Desert, to Morocco, Performed in the Years 1824-1828
Author: Réné CailliéBetween Caravan and Sultan: The Bayruk of Southern Morocco
Author: Mohamed Hassan MohamedPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004183795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Using an ensemble of sources and current concepts, this book proposes new ways of conceiving the place of the caravan and the dynasty in Maghribian historical experiences and modes of identification.
There and Back
Author: Stewart GordonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199093563
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Though travelling is lauded as a means of enriching our lives, the emphasis is generally on the destination rather than the journey. Yet, throughout human history, routes have ferried not just people but books, scrolls, and art, in addition to armies, ambassadorial entourages, slaves, brides, and pilgrims. The interaction of people on routes generated surprising innovations. Through myths, memoirs, and songs associated with twelve such great routes across five continents, historian Stewart Gordon shows how they captured the collective imagination and shaped the expectations of generations of would-be travellers.
The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
Author: John WrightPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134179863
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This compelling text sheds light on the important but under studied trans-Saharan slave trade. The author uncovers and surveys this, the least-noticed of the slave trades out of Africa, which from the seventh to the twentieth centuries quielty delievered almost as many black Africans into foreign servitude as did the far busier, but much briefer Atlantic and East African trades. Illuminating for the first time a significant, but ignored subject, the book supports and widens current scholarly examination of Africans' essential role in the enslavement of fellow-Africans and their delivery to internal, Atlantic or trans-Saharan markets.
Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire
Author: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh al- SaʿdīPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004112070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
The other contemporary documents included are a new English translation of Leo Africanus's description of West Africa, some letters relating to Sa'dian diplomacy and conquests in the Sahara and Sahel, al-Ifrani's account of Sa'dian conquest of Songhay, and an account of this expedition by an anonymous Spaniard.
Reading the Architecture of the Underprivileged Classes
Author: Nnamdi EllehPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317071050
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The expansion of cities in the late C19th and middle part of the C20th in the developing and the emerging economies of the world has one major urban corollary: it caused the proliferation of unplanned parts of the cities that are identified by a plethora of terminologies such as bidonville, favela, ghetto, informal settlements, and shantytown. Often, the dwellings in such settlements are described as shacks, architecture of necessity, and architecture of everyday experience in the modern and the contemporary metropolis. This volume argues that the types of structures and settlements built by people who do not have access to architectural services in many cities in the developing parts of the world evolved simultaneously with the types of buildings that are celebrated in architecture textbooks as 'modernism.' It not only shows how architects can learn from traditional or vernacular dwellings in order to create habitations for the people of low-income groups in public housing scenarios, but also demonstrates how the architecture of the economically underprivileged classes goes beyond culturally-inspired tectonic interpretations of vernacular traditions by architects for high profile clients. Moreover, the essays explore how the resourceful dwellings of the underprivileged inhabitants of the great cities in developing parts of the world pioneered certain concepts of modernism and contemporary design practices such as sustainable and de-constructivist design. Using projects from Africa, Asia, South and Central America, as well as Austria and the USA, this volume interrogates and brings to the attention of academics, students, and practitioners of architecture, the deliberate disqualification of the modern architecture produced by the urban poor in different parts of the world.
Mande Music
Author: Eric CharryPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226101620
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
With Mande Music, Eric Charry offers the most comprehensive source available on one of Africa's richest and most sophisticated music cultures. Using resources as disparate as early Arabic travel accounts, oral histories, and archival research as well as his own extensive studies in Mali, Guinea, Senegal, and the Gambia, Charry traces this music culture from its origins in the thirteenth-century Mali empire to the recording studios of Paris and New York. He focuses on the four major spheres of Mande music—hunter's music, music of the jelis or griots, jembe and other drumming, and guitar-based modern music—exploring how each evolved, the types of instruments used, the major artists, and how each sphere relates to the others. With its maps, illustrations, and musical transcriptions as well as an exhaustive bibliography, discography, and videography, this book is essential reading for those seeking an in-depth look at one of the most exciting, innovative, and deep-rooted phenomena on the world music scene. A compact disc is available separately.
Author: René Caillié