Leo Frobenius on African history, art and culture : an anthology

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Title:

Author:

Frobenius, Leo, 1873-1938.

ISBN:

9781558764255

9781558764262

Personal Author:

Frobenius, Leo, 1873-1938.

Uniform Title:

Leo Frobenius, 1873-1973

Edition:

1st American ed.

Publication Information:

Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Pubishers, 2007.

Physical Description:

xiii, 233 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm

General Note:

Originally published: Leo Frobenius, 1873-1973 : an anthology. Wiesbaden : F. Steiner, 1973.

Essays translated from the German by Patricia Crampton.

Contents:

Foreword / by Léopold Sédar Senghor -- The "Atlas Africanus" -- Discussion of the method of cultural history -- On the morphological method of studying cultures -- The nature of culture -- Reflections on African art -- Rock art of the Saharan Atlas -- Rock art of the Fezzan -- Rock art of South Africa -- African hunters: the Mahalbi culture -- African hunters: bushmen and hunting spirits -- The civilization of the Kabyls -- Tales from the Sudan -- The religion of the Yoruba -- Zimbabwe and the Wahungwe civilization.

Personal Subject:

Frobenius, Leo, 1873-1938.

Subject Term:

Ethnology -- Africa.

Added Author:

Haberland, Eike.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0618/2006024212.html
Table of contents http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=026170752&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
http://scans.hebis.de/HEBCGI/show.pl?18552877_toc.pdf

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Frobenius' pivotal works on African culture represented a landmark in ethnography. His writings, when discovered by young African intellectuals in the early 1900s, reverberated through the community of Africans in search of cultural legitimacy. Frobenius was credited with giving Black Africa back its soul and its identity in the early part of the last century. His contributions and observations laid the groundwork for the concept of negritude, advanced by Leopold Sedar Senghor, who would later serve as president of Senegal - an expression engendered by Frobenius' work that developed hand in hand with the self-determination of the Harlem Renaissance. This collection was originally published in Germany and edited by Eike Haverlund, the 1971 recipient of the Haile Selassie prize for Ethiopian studies.