Catastrophe and Creation: The transformation of an African culture

by K. Elkholm Friedmann

Overview

First Published in 1992. This is a study of what happened to Kongo society and culture at the turn of the 20th century, when the area was penetrated, brutally violated and colonized by Europeans. This book is the outcome of a project called Society and Culture in Crisis whereby the author found that evolution was a continuous, more or less unbroken process only at the global system level, whereas repeated rises and falls took place at the local level. This study closely looks at the declining development process in the Lower Congo and calls to the effects of colonization on society and culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783718651863
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/30/1992
Series:	Studies in Anthropology and History , #5
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Friedmann, K. Elkholm

Table of Contents

Introduction World process and the production of culture; Part 1 Transformation of the social order; Chapter 1 The factory system; Chapter 2 Catastrophe and creation; Part 2 Personhood and the dynamics of culture; Chapter 3 The constitution of the person and the externality of power; Part 3 Transformation of the cultural order; Chapter 4 From religion to magic; Chapter 5 Witchcraft as imaginary cannibalism; Chapter 6 Cannibalism and the loss of political power; Conclusion;