Remembering the Present Painting and Popular History in Zaire

Name: Remembering the Present Painting and Popular History in Zaire
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ISBN: 9780520203754

ISBN-10: 0520203755

ISBN-13: 9780520203754

Edition: 1996

Authors: Johannes Fabian, Tshibumba K. Matulu

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This book combines ethnography with the study of art to present a fascinating new vision of African history. It contains the paintings of a single artist depicting Zaire's history, along with a series of ethnographic essays discussing local history, its complex relationship to forms of self-expression and self-understanding, and the aesthetics of contemporary urban African and Third World societies. As a collaboration between ethnographer and painter, this innovative study challenges text-oriented approaches to understanding history and argues instead for an event- and experience-oriented model, ultimately adding a fresh perspective to the discourse on the relationship between modernity and…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/19/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 385
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments



The History of Zaire as Painted and Told by Tshibumba Kanda Matulu


Prelude: Tshibumba on Tshibumba


Prehistory: Times Ancestral


The Lost African King: Origins of African History


Discovery and Exploration


Crushing African and Arab Resistance to Conquest


Katanga and Msiri: Sovereignty Lost


The Colony Established


Colonial Times


Toward the End of Colonial Rule


Independence Endangered: Ethnic Wars and Secessions


Central Government and the Struggles for Power


The Mobutu Regime


Afterthoughts: Visions of the Future



All Was Lost: Ethnographic Essays on Tshibumba's History of Zaire



Genre and Popular Painting in Shaba



Painting, Talking, and Writing: The Making of the History of Zaire



Beyond the Written and the Oral: Performance and the Production of History



What Happened: Historiology and the Meaning of History



Images, Words, and Realities: From Interpretation to Confrontation


Appendix: Iconography


References


General Index


Index of Paintings