Inventing an African Alphabet Writing, Art, and Kongo Culture in the Drc

Focusing on the Mandombe alphabet and the life-story of its inventor, David Wabeladio Payi, Ramon Sarró combines biography, art, and religion to explore the connections between religious imagination and innovation in Kongo culture. He offers a unique case study of the search for cultural and epistemological independence in the global south.

Info autore

Ramon Sarró is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology of Africa at the University of Oxford. His book The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast: Iconoclasm Done and Undone received the 2010 Amaury Talbot Prize of the Royal Anthropological Institute. His current research, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, focuses on prophetic imagination in Angola.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ramon Sarro, Ramon Sarró, Ramon (University of Oxford) Sarro
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 19.09.2024
• Categoria: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie
• EAN: 9781009199483
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0919948-3
• Numero di pagine: 218
• Serie: The International African Library
• Categorie: Kongo, HISTORY / Africa / General, Society & culture: general, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, African History, Society and culture: general, Writing systems, alphabets, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), Democratic Republic of Congo, African studies; anthropology; linguistics