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Wyatt MacGaffey

Author of Astonishment & Power: The Eyes of Understanding: Kongo Minkisi / The Art of Renee Stout

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Wyatt MacGaffey was formerly John R. Coleman Professor of Social Sciences at Haverford College.

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Works by Wyatt MacGaffey

Astonishment & Power: The Eyes of Understanding: Kongo Minkisi / The Art of Renee Stout (1993) — Author — 50 copies

Kongo Political Culture: The Conceptual Challenge of the Particular (2000) 9 copies

Art and healing of the Bakongo, commented by themselves: Minkisi from the Laman collection (Monograph series) (1991) 6 copies

Religion and Society in Central Africa: The Bakongo of Lower Zaire (1986) 6 copies

Cuba: Its People, Its Society, Its Culture. (1962) 4 copies

Twentieth Century Cuba: The Background of the Castro Revolution 3 copies

Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers: History, Politics, and Land Ownership in Northern Ghana (2013) 3 copies

Modern Kongo prophets: Religion in a plural society (African systems of thought) (1983) 2 copies

Custom and government in the Lower Congo (1970) 1 copy

Twentieth Century Cuba The Background of the Castro Revolution (1962) 1 copy

Associated Works

Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting and Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in… (1994) — Contributor — 39 copies

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Kongo Political Culture: The Conceptual Challenge… by Wyatt MacGaffey

This is not a bad book, but it didn't strike a chord with me. As the title indicates, the author's interest lie in the particular, as in detailed first-hand descriptions of how certain people in Kongo have experienced political power. But there's no generalization, no educated discussion of what these variegated details might imply for the author's understanding of Kongolese societies in a broader perspective. Maybe this book is intended for Kongo specialists. For the layman it's just a tedious collection of disparate particular facts.… (more)

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National Museum of African American History and Culture Host Institute

Sylvia H. Williams Introduction

Renée Stout Artist

Stuart B. Schwartz

Clifford R. Barnett

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Rating: 4.1

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ISBNs: 11

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