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Inventing an African Alphabet: Writing, Art, and Kongo Culture in the DRC: 69 (The International African Library, Series Number 69) - Tapa blanda

Ramon, Sarro

 
9781009199483: Inventing an African Alphabet: Writing, Art, and Kongo Culture in the DRC: 69 (The International African Library, Series Number 69)

Sinopsis

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.

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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.

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