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1. Democratic Republic of the Congo
 
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2. Democratic Republic of the Congo
 
3. Nature and Culture in the Democratic
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4. Wabembe Tribe: Bembe People, Tribe,
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5. Dynamics of oppression and state
 
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6. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO:
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7. Culture and Customs of the Congo
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8. Gospel and Culture in an African
9. Conversations In The Rainforest:
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10. Moments of Freedom: Anthropology
 
11. A study of the conflicts between
 
12. Zaire: Peuples, Art, Culture
 
13. Final report, Zaire fish culture
 
14. The economics of tilapia culture
 
15. Politics and culture in Zaire
 
16. Arts traditionnels et histoire
17. The Congo and Coasts of Africa
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18. Kianza's Congo: A Portrait of
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19. Being Colonized: The Kuba Experience
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20. African Reflections: Art from

1. Democratic Republic of the Congo (Cultures of the World)
by Jay Heale, Yong Jui Lin
Library Binding: 144 Pages (2009-09)
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Describes the geography, history, government, economy, people, lifestyle, religion, languages, arts, leisure, festivals, and food of the third largest country in Africa, a former colony of Belgium. ... Read more


2. Democratic Republic of the Congo Culture: Lugbara Mythology, Culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
 Paperback: 36 Pages (2010-10-14)
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Chapters: Lugbara Mythology, Culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bills, Mwindo Epic, Velours Du Kasaï, Madiaba, Public Holidays in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo reflects much of the diversity of its hundreds of ethnic groups and their differing ways of life throughout the countryfrom the mouth of the River Congo on the coast, upriver through the rainforest and savanna in its centre, to the more densely populated mountains in the far east. Since the late 19th century, traditional ways of life have undergone changes brought about by colonialism, the struggle for independence, the stagnation of the Mobutu era, and most recently, the First and Second Congo Wars. Despite these pressures, the customs and cultures of the Congo have retained much of their individuality. The country's 60 million inhabitants are mainly rural. The 30 percent who live in urban areas have been the most open to Western influences. Map of the major Bantu languages in the Democratic Republic of the CongoLike many African countries, the borders were drawn up by colonial powers, and bore little relation to the actual spread of ethno-linguistic groups. There are around 250 languages spoken in the country, with perhaps a similar number of ethnic groups. Broadly speaking, there are four main population groups: The above descriptions are by necessity simplified. Many Congolese are multilingual, and the language used depends on the context. For instance, a government official might use French to set a tone of formality and authority with another official, use Lingala when buying goods at a market, and the local language when in his home vi...http://booksllc.net/?id=2607984 ... Read more


3. Nature and Culture in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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4. Wabembe Tribe: Bembe People, Tribe, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Kigoma Region
Paperback: 76 Pages (2010-03-13)
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Asin: 6130531001
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bembe Tribe or Wabembe Tribe is an african tribe located in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Tanzania. Bembe people mainly located in villages and districts of Kigoma Region mostly Ujiji, Kaseke, Kagunga, Mwamgongo, Katonga, lubengela, and many others in Tanzania, and in the northwest forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They also live in Dar es Salaam, and Zanzibar Tanzania. Their language is Kibembe. With no clear proof, big amount of Bembe people been claiming that Bembe Tribe is originally from Togo; they claim that Earlier in 18th century, bembe people moved from Togo to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ... Read more


5. Dynamics of oppression and state failure: Cases of child labour in artisanal and small-scale mines. Democratic Republic of Congo
by Martina Savio
Paperback: 96 Pages (2010-07-13)
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Asin: 3838384024
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Today more than ever, it is necessary to examine indepth the growing problematic issue of child labourwhich involves both developed and developingcountries and is not a new phenomenon, but rather theunwelcome resurgence of an old phenomenon. Manychildren are employed in activities which have beenclassified as worst forms of child labour by theInternational Labour Organization, and among these wefind mining. Given the gravity of such a practice,this work analyses child employment in artisanal andsmall scale mines in two case studies: Kalima andKampene in the Province of Maniema, DemocraticRepublic of Congo. Employing a qualitative approach,the work investigates in depth the working conditionsof child miners, their self-perception, and theconsequences of the lack of a functioning state forchild miners, providing an innovative view of thisissue that starts from the children's perspective. This academic work is also accompanied by a thoroughtheoretical framework which includes Freire's theoryof oppression, Rossatto's ?Freirean Mapping ofOptimism and Desire?, and the theory of failedstates. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars An excellent investigation of child labour in DRC
In this book Miss Savio presents a solid and extensive coverage of the scarcely investigated topic of child labour in the mines in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The study is the result of a well planned three month filed work giving an insight not only on the broader social and economic background but also on the day to day life of child miners. This study is an important source of information for whoever is investigating not only mining in Africa but child labour in general, due to the solid theoretical framework. ... Read more


6. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's <i>Countries and Their Cultures</i>
by JENNIFER J. ZIEMKE
 Digital: 18 Pages (2001)
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This digital document is an article from Countries and Their Cultures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 3764 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Covers the broad range of popular religious culture of the United States at the close of the twentieth century. Beliefs, practices, symbols, traditions, movements, organizations, and leaders from the many traditions in the pluralistic American community are represented. Also includes cults and phenomena that drew followers, such as Heaven's Gale and UFOs. ... Read more


7. Culture and Customs of the Congo (Culture and Customs of Africa)
by Tshilemale Mukenge
Hardcover: 232 Pages (2001-11-30)
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The Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire, continues to struggle with socioeconomic and political development. Culture and Customs of the Congo provides the full context of traditional culture and modern practices against a backdrop of a turbulent history. The volume opens up a land and peoples little known in the United States. Written expressly to meet the needs of students and the general audience, the work will inform about the geography, economy, political history, and history from the slave trade to dictatorship; ancestral religions and inroads of western faiths; ancestral literary heritage and communication; art, architecture, and housing; diet and dress; marriage, family, and women; lifestyles and life events, and traditional and modern music and dance. ... Read more


8. Gospel and Culture in an African Context: The Tetela-Kusu-Anamongo People and the Church
by Joseph F Onema
Paperback: 228 Pages (2006-04)
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9. Conversations In The Rainforest: Culture, Values, And The Environment In Central Africa
by Richard Peterson
Hardcover: 336 Pages (2000-05-04)
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Isbn: 0813337097
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Can any lessons for long-term environmental sustainability come from Africa, a continent long perceived more as a cauldron of environmental disasters than a cradle of environmental solutions? In Conversations in the Rainforest, Richard B. Peterson answers an emphatic yes. Peterson deftly interweaves the ideas of African and Africanist historians, theologians, anthropologists, philosophers, writers, and ecologists with a series of remarkable conversations he shared with inhabitants of the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Yet, rather than remain in the background of his analysis, these conversations—on subjects ranging from traditional interpretations of nature to contemporary indigenous perspectives on modern environmental challenges—constitute the very core of this book.Through this enlightening and frequently mesmerizing narrative approach, Peterson brings the foundations of Central African land ethics into vivid relief. With uncommon empathy and insight, he shows how ecological and social sustainability projects in the region can be based more firmly on these foundations. This book holds invaluable lessons for environmental practitioners, scholars, and anyone interested in long-term environmental sustainability on a global level.
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5-0 out of 5 stars We are part of nature not set apart from it.
Professor Peterson believes that:
1)The commercialized use, more than indigenous peoples' use of the forest lies at the root of Africa's environmental problems.
2)Central African traditional ecological knowledge suggests that we would do better to try to control the market forces that lead to overexploitation of the environment rather than unjustly restrict the subsistence practices of people who have lived in these forests much longer than ourselves.
3)The environmental wisdom of Central African forest peoples stems from the knowledge and belief that nature and humans are never separate entities but parts of one system.
4)We are part of nature not set apart from it.
5)Nature and culture, humans and environment, social ethics and environmental ethics, ecology and justice go hand in hand.
6)It is not humans or nature that are central; rather it is life that is primary, and that includes the entire community of life, for all of life is important, all of life is bonded, all of life is sacred. ... Read more


10. Moments of Freedom: Anthropology and Popular Culture (Page-Barbour Lectures)
by Johannes Fabian
Paperback: 192 Pages (1998-07-01)
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Johannes Fabian was one of the first anthropologists to introduce the concept of popular culture into the study of contemporary Africa. Drawing on his research in the Shaba region of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), he has been writing for thirty years about the practices, beliefs, and objects that make up popular culture in an urban African setting: labor and language, religious movements, theater and storytelling, music and painting, grassroots literacy and historiography.

In Moments of Freedom Fabian reflects on anthropological uses of the concept of popular culture. He retraces how his explorations of popular culture in this urban-industrial setting showed that classiclal culture theory did not account for large aspects of contemporary African life. Popular culture draws on various genres of representation and performance, and Fabian explores the notion of genre itself as it applies to Shaba religious discourse, painting, and the theater. He also addresses the element of time and how spatial thinking about culture, ethnicity, and globalization acts as an obstacle to appreciating the contemporaneity of African popular culture. The volume ends with a discussion of contestation in light of current calls for democratization.

In Moments of Freedom, Johannes Fabian takes stock of decades of anthropological work on popular culture and examines the development of his own thought over time. Throughout the volume, he makes eloquent connections to other firelds such as history, folklore studies, and cultural studies, suggesting areas for further research in each.

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11. A study of the conflicts between western education and the primitive animistic culture of the Belgian Congo (Research paper / University of Wichita)
by Orv Wiebe
 Unknown Binding: Pages (1959)

Asin: B0007GTIFU
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12. Zaire: Peuples, Art, Culture
by J.A. Cornet, A. Turconi
 Hardcover: 408 Pages (1994-12-31)

Isbn: 9061532175
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13. Final report, Zaire fish culture
by Beth Burnett
 Unknown Binding: 48 Pages (1983)

Asin: B0007BGTLQ
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14. The economics of tilapia culture in Kasai Occidental, Zaire (Cornell international agriculture mimlograph)
by Jan W Low
 Unknown Binding: 43 Pages (1985)

Asin: B00070SSJS
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15. Politics and culture in Zaire (Politics and culture series)
by Thomas M Callaghy
 Unknown Binding: 66 Pages (1987)

Asin: B00071MTTW
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16. Arts traditionnels et histoire au Zaïre: Cultures forestières et royaumes de la savane (Publications d'histoire de l'art et d'archéologie de l'Université catholique de Louvain)
by François Neyt
 Unknown Binding: 335 Pages (1981)

Asin: B0007B0AVQ
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17. The Congo and Coasts of Africa
by Richard Harding Davis
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No matter how often one sets out, "for to admire, and for to see, for to behold this world so wide," he never quite gets over being surprised at the erratic manner in which "civilization" distributes itself; at the way it ignores one spot upon the earth's surface, and upon another, several thousand miles away, heaps its blessings and its tyrannies. ... Read more


18. Kianza's Congo: A Portrait of Life in Unspoiled Africa
by Hugo Daems
Paperback: 289 Pages (1999-11)
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Asin: 0887391893
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5-0 out of 5 stars The Real Heart of Africa
I own over a thousands books on a wide range of subjects regarding Africa.This is THE BEST book in plain english about what life is like in a central african tribe from the perspective on an African.I have also traveled to the congo and other countries for research.This book gets it right, helping to create a cohesive picture of life there without a bunch on anthropological, higher instition speak.A must, must read.

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5-0 out of 5 stars Discovery of a lost Africa
This book saves you the discomfort of a trip deep into the African Jungle: I have never read such a detailed description of the real 'Circle of Life' in Africa. Mr. Daems tells us the story of Kianza's life, starting with the first encounter of Kianza's father with white people, up to the independence of Congo. Tales of slavery, intiation rites, secret societies, local politics and economics, all these subjects are demystified in this book by Kianza himself. Kianza is not just a first row spectator but a participant himself. The arrival of white man however disrupted the existing fragile social structures which had evolved out of several thousands of years of trying to live in harmony with nature. "Kianza however did not oppose progress blindly, but it was blind progress that he opposed."

5-0 out of 5 stars WOW!This is the REAL inside story of the CONGO.
Kianza's Congo is the inside story of black life in the Congo. Written by a man who lived 10 years with the tribes. He spoke their language, witnessed their customs, and learned of secret rituals.

The life of ChiefKianza is told in Kianza's own words and translated by his confidant Mr. Daems.The book includes suspense, sex, politics, power, and even anexperience of slavery.To be accepted in the male elite clan you must passtough rituals, or die trying.These and more are described in thisexcellent book.This is REAL AFRICAN LIFE. ... Read more


19. Being Colonized: The Kuba Experience in Rural Congo, 1880-1960 (Africa and the Diaspora)
by Jan Vansina
Paperback: 348 Pages (2010-03-18)
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What was it like to be colonized by foreigners? Highlighting a region in central Congo, in the center of sub-Saharan Africa, Being Colonized places Africans at the heart of the story. In a richly textured history that will appeal to general readers and students as well as to scholars, the distinguished historian Jan Vansina offers not just accounts of colonial administrators, missionaries, and traders, but the varied voices of a colonized people. Vansina uncovers the history revealed in local news, customs, gossip, and even dreams, as related by African villagers through archival documents, material culture, and oral interviews.
    Vansina’s case study of the colonial experience is the realm of Kuba, a kingdom in Congo about the size of New Jersey—and two-thirds the size of its colonial master, Belgium. The experience of its inhabitants is the story of colonialism, from its earliest manifestations to its tumultuous end. What happened in Kuba happened to varying degrees throughout Africa and other colonized regions: racism, economic exploitation, indirect rule, Christian conversion, modernization, disease and healing, and transformations in gender relations. The Kuba, like others, took their own active part in history, responding to the changes and calamities that colonization set in motion. Vansina follows the region’s inhabitants from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, when a new elite emerged on the eve of Congo’s dramatic passage to independence.
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20. African Reflections: Art from Northeastern Zaire (American Museum of Natural History)
by Enid Schildkrout
Hardcover: 271 Pages (1990-07)
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Asin: 029596961X
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5-0 out of 5 stars A Rich book about the art of Zaire.
This is a first rate book that examines and traces the art of northeasternZaire.Focusing on the Mangbetu people and their art before and after thecoming of the european, it is a fascinating examination of traditionalstyles and designs. Many fine examples of art from this region include,utilitarian objects such as harps, knifes, pots, bowls, various textiles,bark boxes and stools.The color photographs are from The American Museumof Natural History's collection, with the text provided by the museum'scurator Enid Schildkrout.I am sorry to see that this book is out-of-stockat present.I would strongly advise anyone wanting an excellent book aboutart from this region to track it down. ... Read more


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