Flash of the Spirit

Flash of the Spirit

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  • Author: Robert Farris Thompson
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN: 0307874338
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 337

This landmark book shows how five African civilizations—Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River—have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World.


Flash of the Spirit

Flash of the Spirit

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  • Author: Robert Farris Thompson
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN: 0394723694
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 337

This landmark book shows how five African civilizations—Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River—have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World.


Flash of the Spirit

Flash of the Spirit

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  • Author: Robert Farris Thompson
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 344

This book reveals how five distinct African civilizations have shaped the specific cultures of their New World descendants.


Flash of the Spirit

Flash of the Spirit

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  • Author: Robert Farris Thompson
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN: 0394723694
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 337

This landmark book shows how five African civilizations—Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River—have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World.


African Art in Motion

African Art in Motion

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  • Author: Robert Farris Thompson
  • Publisher: Univ of California Press
  • ISBN: 0520324633
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 902

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.


The Four Moments of the Sun

The Four Moments of the Sun

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  • Author: Robert Farris Thompson
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 268


The Spirit Keeper

The Spirit Keeper

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  • Author: K. B. Laugheed
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 0142180335
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 354

For fans of the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon, a love story for the ages This is the account of Katie O’Toole, late of Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, removed from her family by savages on March the 2nd in the year of our Lord 1747.The thirteenth child conceived of miserable Irish exiles, Katie O’Toole dreams of a different life. Little does she know that someone far away is dreaming of her. In 1747, savages raid her family home, and seventeen-year-old Katie is taken captive. Syawa and Hector have been searching for her, guided by Syawa’s dreams. A young Holyman, Syawa believes Katie is the subject of his Vision: the Creature of Fire and Ice, destined to bring a great gift to his people. Despite her flaming hair and ice-blue eyes, Katie is certain he is mistaken, but faced with returning to her family, she agrees to join them. She soon discovers that in order to fulfill Syawa’s Vision, she must first become his Spirit Keeper, embarking on an epic journey that will change her life—and heart—forever. Ideal for fans of The Son and Empire of the Summer Moon, this riveting novel will transport and enchant readers.


Flash of Genius

Flash of Genius

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  • Author: John Seabrook
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • ISBN: 9780312535728
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 388

Essays explore inspiration and entrepreneurship in everyday Americans, including the story of Bob Kearns, who invented the intermittent windshield wiper.


African Spirituality

African Spirituality

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  • Author: Anthony Ephirim-Donkor
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 0761872612
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 319

Using the Akan in Ghana as a paradigmatic African representative group, African Spirituality: On Becoming Ancestors, Third Edition offers a unique African developmental praxis to eternal life immortality. Indeed, this way of life is predicated on the awareness and application of certain intrinsic values, which, if followed, lead to eternal life. As a way of living, African spirituality begins when an individual becomes morally and ethically responsible for one’s own actions while engaged on an ethical path (Ɔbra Bↄ) in pursuance of one’s unique career endeavor (Nkrabea). Though an individual quest, society is, however, the arbiter of one’s ethical and moral life, when society confers on the person adjudged a success the stage title of Nana. At old age, Ɔbra Bↄ ends as an active endeavor. However, as repositories of wisdom, senior elders continue to inculcate in succeeding generations the principles, art, and mastery of ideal life (Ɔbra pa). Then upon death, senior elders are transformed into deities, bequeathing to living descendants names worthy of evocation and worship. Indeed, this book is the first study of its kind to draw on the experiences of an entire people, their psychological dispositions and effects on the Akan during adulthood. Thus, this book brings a unique perspective to the study of spirituality, religion, developmental psychological theory, what it means to achieve perfection as an elder on earth, and upon death join the esteemed company of the Nananom Nsamanfo (Ancestors).


Aesthetic of the Cool

Aesthetic of the Cool

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  • Author: Robert Farris Thompson
  • Publisher: Periscope
  • ISBN: 9781934772959
  • Category : Aesthetics, Black
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Essays on the African heritage in the art and music of the Americas.