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.


African Art in Motion

African Art in Motion

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  • Author: Robert Farris Thompson
  • Publisher: Univ of California Press
  • ISBN: 9780520038448
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 296


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


Face of the Gods

Face of the Gods

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

Thompson examines the altar traditions in cultures from the Atlantic coast region of Africa, South America, the Caribbean, and the United States.


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.


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.


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).


Identity, Spirit and Freedom in the Atlantic World

Identity, Spirit and Freedom in the Atlantic World

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  • Author: Robert Hanserd
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1351591770
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 364

This book applies oral, archival and other interdisciplinary evidence from West Africa and the Americas to analyses of new world Maroons, slaves and free blacks, examining a "Gold Coast" entrepot of Akan, Ga, Guan and other peoples in an Atlantic era of non-linear, mutable intersection of contested history and culture. Combining extant evidence with newer interdisciplinary insights to reconsider under-recognized histories and actors, Identity, Spirit and Freedom in the Atlantic World explores West African cosmologies, regional statecraft and socio-cultural practice, and the way they contributed to Atlantic ideas of freedom, identity and spirituality. Archival researches of British, Dutch and Danish Atlantic thoroughfares bring to light histories of royals, priests and others remade as captive laborers, Maroons and free blacks. Looking at Akwamu’s overtaking of Great Accra, Jamaica’s Maroon Wars, the 1712 Rebellion in New York and many other examples, this book explores the evolution of identity and spirituality in the diaspora of the Gold Coast and the Atlantic world. Identity, Spirit and Freedom in the Atlantic World will be of interest to scholars and students of African studies, the African diaspora, cultural studies and Atlantic and American history.