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The Kongo kingdom, which arose in the Atlantic Coast region of West-Central Africa, is a famous emblem of Africa's past yet little is still known of its origins and early history. This book sheds new light on that all important period and goes on to explain the significance of its cosmopolitan culture in the wider world. Bringing together different new strands of historical evidence as well as scholars from disciplines as diverse as anthropology, archaeology, art history, history and linguistics, it is the first book to approach the history of this famous Central African kingdom from a cross-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are written by distinguished and/or upcoming experts of Kongo history with a focus on political space, taking us through processes of centralisation and decentralisation, the historical politics of extraversion and internal dynamics, and the geographical distribution of aspects of material and immaterial Kongo culture.

Africa --- Kongo Kingdom --- Königreich Kongo. --- History. --- History of Congo --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Civilization. --- Kingdom of Kongo

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Between the 16th and the 19th centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practised Christianity, actively participating in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm on a par with European monarchies. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, this book examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture, traces its development across four centuries marked by war and the Atlantic slave trade, and finally narrates its unravelling as 19th-century European colonialism penetrated Africa.

Christianity --- Christian art and symbolism --- Art, Christian --- Art, Ecclesiastical --- Arts in the church --- Christian symbolism --- Ecclesiastical art --- Symbolism and Christian art --- Religious art --- Symbolism --- Symbolism in art --- Church decoration and ornament --- Religions --- Church history --- Kongo Kingdom --- Kingdom of Kongo --- Church history. --- Religious life and customs.

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#SBIB:96G --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Kongo (African people) --- -Bakongo (African people) --- Bakongo (African tribe) --- Cabinda (African people) --- Congo (African people) --- Fjort (African people) --- Frote (African people) --- Ikeleve (African people) --- Kakongo (African people) --- Kileta (African people) --- Koongo (African people) --- Nkongo (African people) --- Wacongomani (African people) --- Bantu-speaking peoples --- Ethnology --- Geschiedenis van Afrika --- Etnografie: Afrika --- History --- Kongo Kingdom --- -History --- Kongo (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Bakongo (African people) --- Kingdom of Kongo --- History. --- Histoire --- Congo. Geschiedenis. --- Kongo [Tribu]. --- Congo. Histoire. --- Kongo [Volksstam].

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In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action.

Kongo (African people) --- Body language --- Dance --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Dances --- Dancing --- Amusements --- Performing arts --- Balls (Parties) --- Eurythmics --- Kinesics --- Nonverbal communication (Psychology) --- Interpersonal communication --- Nonverbal communication --- Bakongo (African people) --- Bakongo (African tribe) --- Cabinda (African people) --- Congo (African people) --- Fjort (African people) --- Frote (African people) --- Ikeleve (African people) --- Kakongo (African people) --- Kileta (African people) --- Koongo (African people) --- Nkongo (African people) --- Wacongomani (African people) --- Bantu-speaking peoples --- Ethnology --- Communication. --- Social aspects --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Communication --- Anthropology --- Bundu dia Kongo --- Congo Basin --- Democratic Republic of the Congo --- Kingdom of Kongo --- Kinshasa --- Kongo people --- Luozi --- Mobutu Sese Seko --- Simon Kimbangu --- Zaire

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Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Kongo Kingdom --- History. --- Politics and government. --- Civilization --- Foreign influences. --- Kingdom of Kongo --- Congo DR --- Congo (Kinshasa) --- Congo (Leopoldville) --- Democratic Republic of Congo --- Democratic Republic of the Congo --- Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika Kongo --- DR Congo --- DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo) --- DRK (Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika Kongo) --- Kongo --- R.D. Congo --- RD Congo --- RDC (République démocratique du Congo) --- Republic of Congo (Leopoldville) --- Republic of the Congo (Leopoldville) --- République démocratique du Congo --- République du Congo (Leopoldville) --- Belgian Congo --- Zaire --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:328H412 --- #SBIB:96G --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Instellingen en beleid: Zaïre / Congo --- Geschiedenis van Afrika