Remembering the Present: Painting and Popular History in Zaire

Johannes Fabian

Published by University of California Press 1996

Remembering the Present

Painting and Popular History in Zaire

Johannes Fabian

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520917323

Contents

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Preface and Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
PART I. The History of Zaire as Painted and Told by Tshibumba Kanda Matulu
Prelude: Tshibumba on Tshibumba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Prehistory: Times Ancestral Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
The Lost African King: Origins of African History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
Discovery and Exploration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
Crushing African and Arab Resistance to Conquest Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
Katanga and Msiri: Sovereignty Lost Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
The Colony Established Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Colonial Times Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Toward the End of Colonial Rule Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Independence Endangered: Ethnic Wars and Secessions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Central Government and the Struggles for Power Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
The Mobutu Regime Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Afterthoughts: Visions of the Future Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
PART II. All Was Lost: Ethnographic Essays on Tshibumba's History of Zaire
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Chapter 1. Genre and Popular Painting in Shaba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Chapter 2. Painting, Talking, and Writing: The Making of the History of Zaire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Chapter 3. Beyond the Written and the Oral: Performance and the Production of History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Chapter 4. What Happened: Historiology and the Meaning of History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Chapter 5. Images, Words, and Realities: From Interpretation to Confrontation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Appendix: Iconography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Index of Paintings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Edition: Reprint 2019
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 384

eBook

Published: July 6, 2020
ISBN: 9780520917323