A photographic record of daily life in the 1940s among the MaBudu in north-eastern Belgian Congo. A 112-page, 10 x 10" perfect bound memoir with 13o high quality black&white original images of a Bantu tribe still largely untouched by outside influences. Of interest to anthropologists, historians, photographers, scholarly institutions, Africanists, and students of African Arts.
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"Imagine living in a verdant forest with few roads and infrequent visits from suppliers. Frank L. Lambrecht, a health officer for the Congo red Cross, experiences this and more while providing medical aid to the people in and arounnd the small,village of Pawa in the Belgian Congo. Using his extensive collection of photographs, Lambrecht documents MaBudu life during the 1940s. The physical appearance, material culture, and history of this Bantu tribe are explored in black-and-white images and spare text." -- Christine Peters, Cleveland Museum
Belgian colonial memoirs are a complex and rich source for studiesof material culture, human relations,and colonial power, humor, and memory. Lambrecht is to be applauded for adding this photographic memoir to this immense and still growing genre. Like all such primary sources, his entends intriguing riddles, clues, and paradoxes, including about the man whi is its author and his now creative children (an anthropologist, an artist, and a music teacher). May this fascinating and unstudied postwar generation of Belgian colonial children--many of whom were born in Congolese maternities wards. many of whom went on to have imaginative careers and unusual politics--share their memories, autobiographis, and 1960 departure stories, too. -- Nancy Rose Hunt, University of Michigan
In five chapters, the author takes the reader down a somehat familiar path. The first chapter is devoted to the "Kibali-Ituri: The Habitta" Several evocative images, in particular a dreamlike photograph of the rainy season in Pawa, creates a sense of the setting--the rain forest, in which humans are only peripheral actors as hunters and agriculturalists. This sense is perhaps best captured in the photograph on pqge 19, showing three Budu men in the middle of a small river bed, one of them crouching down and pointing a gun. Blurred, distant figures, the three men are dwarfed by the spectacular forest. -- Christraud M. Geary, African Arts
Belgian colonial memoirs are a complex and rich source for studiesof material culture, human relations,and colonial power, humor, and memory. Lambrecht is to be applauded for adding this photographic memoir to this immense and still growing genre. Like all such primary sources, his entends intriguing riddles, clues, and paradoxes, including about the man whi is its author and his now creative children (an anthropologist, an artist, and a music teacher). May this fascinating and unstudied postwar generation of Belgian colonial children--many of whom were born in Congolese maternities wards. many of whom went on to have imaginative careers and unusual politics--share their memories, autobiographis, and 1960 departure stories, too. -- Nancy Rose Hunt, University of Michigan
In five chapters, the author takes the reader down a somehat familiar path. The first chapter is devoted to the "Kibali-Ituri: The Habitta" Several evocative images, in particular a dreamlike photograph of the rainy season in Pawa, creates a sense of the setting--the rain forest, in which humans are only peripheral actors as hunters and agriculturalists. This sense is perhaps best captured in the photograph on pqge 19, showing three Budu men in the middle of a small river bed, one of them crouching down and pointing a gun. Blurred, distant figures, the three men are dwarfed by the spectacular forest. -- Christraud M. Geary, African Arts
About the Author
Frank L. Lambrecht, born in Wales, eduacted in Belgium as a tropical biologist now lives in the U.S.A. He has a degree in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and an M.A. in Biology. At present a research assistant with the University of California, Santa Barbara. He and his wife spent twenty years in Africa and three years in islands of the Indian Ocean.They have three children: Winnie an anthropologist; Jessica a fine art painter; and Richard, born in Africa, a music teacher.
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