[PDF] The Gods Of Dahomey eBook

Author : Patrick Manning
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 2004-06-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521523073

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This book integrates into a single framework Dahomey's pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial economic history.

Author : Meera Venkatachalam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1107108276

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This book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anlo-Ewe peoples from the 1850s.

Author : Lynne Ellsworth Larsen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 2023-06-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1000899683

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Dahomey’s Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin. The book explores the Royal Palace of Dahomey’s relationship to the religious, cultural, and national identity of the pre-colonial Kingdom of Dahomey (c. 1625–1892), colonial Dahomey (1892–1960) and post-colonial Benin (1960–present). The Royal Palace of Dahomey covers more than 108 acres and was surrounded by a wall over two miles long. When the French colonial army arrived in Abomey in 1892, the ruling king set fire to the palace to keep it from falling into enemy hands. Though much of the palace structure was subsequently left to ruin, a portion of it was restored from which the French ruled for a short period. In 1945, the colonial administration transformed part of the palace into a museum, and in 1985 the entire palace was added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list. This book documents the palace’s physical transformations in relation to its changing purposes and explores how the space maintained religious significance despite change. The palace’s construction, destruction, and restorations demonstrate how architecture can be manipulated and transformed according to the agendas of governments or according to the religious and cultural needs of a populace. The palace functions as a historic record by discussing aspects of documentation, revision, language, and interpretation. Covering almost four centuries of Dahomey’s history, this book will be of interest to researchers and students of African art and architecture, religious studies, west African history, and post-colonial studies.

Author : Sandra T. Barnes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 1997-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253113814

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This landmark work of ethnography explores the enduring, global worship of the African god of war—with five new essays in this new, expanded edition. Ogun—the ancient African god of iron, war, and hunting—is worshiped by more than forty million adherents in Western Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas. This rich, interdisciplinary collection draws on field research from several continents to reveal Ogun’s dramatic power and enduring appeal. Contributors examine the history and spread of Ogun throughout old and new worlds; the meaning of Ogun ritual, myth, and art; and the transformations of Ogun through the deity’s various manifestations. This edition includes five new essays focusing mainly on Ogun worship in the new world. “[A]n ethnographically rich contribution to the historical understanding of West African culture, as well as an exploration of the continued vitality of that culture in the changing environments of the Americas.” —African Studies Review