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Maurice Delafosse. African Art
Preface
Origins and Prehistory
Aim and Object of This Book
Origin of the Negro Peoples of Africa
Hypothetical Lemuria
Oceanic Migrations
Autochthonous Africans
Peopling of Africa
The Negroes of Africa at the Time of Herodotus
Development of Negro Civilisations in Antiquity
Paucity of Historical Documentation
“Aggry Beads”
Phoenician and Carthaginian Influence
Abyssinian Semites and the Beni-Israel
Romans and Berbers
Negro Africa in the Middle Ages
The Empire of Ghana
The Almoravide Movement
The Kingdom of Diara
The Kingdom of Soso
The Beginnings of the Songhoy Empire
The Mandinka Empire
The Mossi Empires
West Africa from the 15th Century to Today
More Abundant Documentation
The Mandinka and Songhoy Empires
The Askia Mohammed
Koli-Tengella
The Last Askias
The Pashas of Timbuktu
The Bambara Kingdoms
The Tukulor Conquest
The Wanderings of Samori
The Peoples of the West Coast
The Peoples of the Bend of the Niger
The Negroes of Central and Eastern Sudan
The Hausa Countries
The Empire of Bornu
The Bagirmi
The Kingdom of Wadai
Darfur and Kurdufan
Rabah’s Adventure
Mahdism
Populations in the Neighbourhood of Abyssinia and Those of the Eastern Point of Africa
South Africa
The Bantu
The Congo
The Ansika
The Mataman
The Bechuana
The Monomotapa
Kilwa and the Zanzibar Sultanates
The Kingdoms of the Interior
European and Christian Influence
Material Civilisations
Diversity of Material Civilisations
Influence of Physical Environment
Habitations
Furniture and Utensils
Clothing and Decoration
Skilled Occupations
Social Customs
The Family and the Two Systems of Relationship
The Patriarch
Marriage
Divorce
Orphans
Polygamy
Individual and Collective Property
Slavery
Religious Beliefs and Practices
Islam, Christianity, and Animism
Individual Spirits of People and Things
Vital Breath
Priests
Belief in a Supreme God
Magic and Magicians
Artistic and Intellectual Expression
Negro Talents
Human Figures and Gods
Animal Representations
Industrial Arts
Architecture
Music
Native Literature in Arabic
Written Literature in Native Tongue
“Griots” or Living Encyclopaedias
Popular Oral Literature
Origin of Popular Themes
Genius for Story-Telling
Moral Tales
Refuting the so-called Intellectual Inferiority of the Negroes
Appendix
Selective Bibliography
Old Primary and Secondary Sources
Contemporary Texts of the Publication
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Well-known and appreciated by Africanists, Maurice Delafosse (1870–1926) knew how to exceed the requirements of his environment and of his time for the benefit of an authentic Africa.
Colonialist administrator from 1894 to 1918, his degrees in naturalism and orientalism allowed him to lead historic, linguistic, and ethnographical research in the field and to restore the cultural values of the black world, just as Léopold Senghor did. A major writer of négritude, Delafosse exhibited a particular interest for these papers on which he established his first essays.
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Wood, plant fibres, hair, leather, and ivory, height: 25 cm.
Private collection.
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