Retrato do autor

Jocelyn Murray (2)

Autor(a) de Cultural Atlas of Africa

Para outros autores com o nome Jocelyn Murray, ver a página de desambiguação.

6 Works 193 Membros 4 Críticas

Obras por Jocelyn Murray

Cultural Atlas of Africa (1981) — Editor — 151 exemplares
Atlas van Afrika (1984) 5 exemplares
África (# 1) (2006) 3 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

País (no mapa)
United Kingdom

Membros

Críticas

Examines the history, culture, and geography of the African continent from past to present.(1990) This book also discusses the ancient kingdoms of Africa as well as the place the continent holds in the modern world. It also includes maps, charts, documents, works of art, and examples of physical evidence that offer students insights into this continent.
 
Assinalado
riselibrary_CSUC | Jun 23, 2020 |
Beautiful Book on Africa. Illustrated throughout with maps, photographs, drawings etc... essential for study of cultures. Very informative.
 
Assinalado
riselibrary_CSUC | 2 outras críticas | Jun 14, 2020 |
Why did I buy an out of date book? (First printed in 1981 and reprinted for this version in 1986....so it's now 38 years old!) A lot has changed over the last 38 years. However, for a book like this which is half ethnography and half geography, a lot probably has not changed. I certainly found it fascinating reading. And learned some new things.....such as there was probably as much trade in slaves on the Eastern side of Africa...to the Arab countries and to India as there was in the trans Atlantic trade. And the other interesting angle from the slave trade was that the slaves took their culture with them and replicated it in the new world. Elsewhere, slaves had simply been absorbed into the culture of the countries to whom they were enslaved.
Confession: I have not read every page of this book. I only skimmed it. The geography/history section which makes up about half of the book deals with each country in some detail...but whilst one can follow the genesis of the Tutsi-Hutu conflict in Ruwanda, you certainly miss all the details of the recent genocidal massacres. Still, it's an interesting book but suffering because it is now dated. I gave it 3.5 stars.
… (mais)
½
 
Assinalado
booktsunami | 2 outras críticas | Sep 7, 2019 |
 
Assinalado
Sheila01 | 2 outras críticas | Apr 21, 2019 |

You May Also Like

Associated Authors

Richard Watts Project manager
Graham Bateman Project manager
Andrew Lawson Art editor
Tim Williams Map editor
Graham Speake General editor
Gerhard Kubik Contributor
John Lovell Maps drawn and originated
Liz Orrock Map editor
Clive Sparling Production
Lauren Bourque General editor
Claire Turner Picture research

Estatísticas

Obras
6
Membros
193
Popularidade
#113,337
Avaliação
½ 3.6
Críticas
4
ISBN
23
Línguas
4

Tabelas & Gráficos