Kongo Graphic Writing and Other Narratives of the Sign

Resource Information

The work Kongo Graphic Writing and Other Narratives of the Sign represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Kongo Graphic Writing and Other Narratives of the Sign

Creator

• Martinez-Ruiz, Barbaro

Subject

• Cuba
• Kongo (African people) -- History
• Kongo (African people) -- Religion
• Kongo language -- Writing
• Picture-writing -- Africa, Central
• Picture-writing -- Cuba
• Symbolism in communication -- Africa, Central
• Symbolism in communication -- Cuba
• Written communication -- Social aspects -- Africa, Central
• Written communication -- Social aspects -- Cuba
• Central Africa

Language

eng

Summary

Written symbols, religious objects, oral traditions, and body language have long been integrated into the Kongo system of graphic writing of the Bakongo people in Central Africa as well as their Cuban descendants. The comprehensive Kongo Graphic Writing and Other Narratives of the Sign provides a significant overview of the social, religious, and historical contexts in which the Kongo kingdom developed and spread to the Caribbean. Author Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz, a practitioner of the Palo Monte devotional arts, illustrates with graphics and rock art how the Bakongo's ideogr

Member of

• ebscodelete 2020-10-19

Cataloging source

EBZ

LC call number

PL8401

LC item number

.M27 2013

Nature of contents

dictionaries