Georges Balandier, badacz historii Konga
Georges Balandier as researcher of the Old Kingdom of Kongo

Author(s): Robert Piętek
Subject(s): Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Georges Balandier; Kingdom of Kongo; Christianity; European expansion; Portugal
Summary/Abstract: The book Daily Life in the Kingdom of the Kongo from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century was one of first works describing in detail the organization of the Kongo Kingdom and its society. Georges Balandier described the kingdom in the context of cultural, political and economic confrontation between Europe and Africa. According to him, the European influences weakened the kingdom and its Christianization was superficial. Balandier was influenced by the ideas of the epoch of the colonization of Africa. He considered the early modern European policy towards the Kongo to be similar to the one in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century an era of colonial expansion and colonial times.

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