Africa Dances a Book About West African Negroes Geoffrey Gorer editora: The Norton Library ano: 1962

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Africa Dances a Book About West African Negroes
Geoffrey Gorer
editora: The Norton Library
ano: 1962

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CONTENTS     ITINERARY I--INTRODUCTORY15     BOOK ONE--SENEGALESE27     i. Dakar29     ii. The Wolof31     iii. Religion41     iv. Wrestling48     v. Food52     vi. Personal Histories54     vii. Dakar Nigger62     ITINERARY II--THE HORRIBLE JOURNEY65     BOOK TWO--THE DESERT85     i. The Administration87     ii. Taxes92     iii. Labour Service95     iv. Military Service97     v. How to Empty a Human Reservoir101     vi. Voiceless Protest103     ITINERARY III--MANDATE109     BOOK THREE--FETISH135     i. The Kingdom of Dahomey139     ii. The Fetishist Religion145     iii. Public Rites154     iv. The Fetishist Convents162     v. Signs and Wonders166     vi. Magic168     vii. Missionaries173     viii. Strange Pilgrimage178     ITINERARY IV--ENGLISH INTERLUDE181     BOOK FOUR--AFRICANS DANCE211     ITINERARY V--FINALE229     INDEX247


1935. In 1934, Geoffrey Gorer wrote confidently that The West African Negro... is (more than anything else) the man who expresses every emotion with rhythmical bodily movement. Ten years after its publication, Gorer admitted that rereading his anthropological survey of West Africa, Africa Dances, was a chastening and, in some ways, humiliating experience. But, although his methodology is now outdated, cultural and racial generalizations such as this paved the way for modern-day anthropology.



Originally published in 1935, Africa Dances takes the reader on an odyssey across West Africa, in the company of one of the great black ballet stars of 1930s Paris (Feral Benga). It's a devastating critique of colonial rule, which is shown to be destroying African society while Christian missionaries undermine indigenous morality. The book captures the rich physical and psychological detail of village life-from food and architecture to witch doctors, dance, and magic.



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