Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City

by Filip De Boeck and Marie Francois Plissart

Book Overview

"Both the camera and the pen, in a way, ultimately are colonial tools," writes Belgian anthropologist Filip De Boeck in the preface to this collaborative book with photographer Marie-Fran?oise Plissart. They sought to overcome the inherent bias of their instruments and produce a work that provided a history not only of the physical and visible urban reality of Kinshasa, but also of a second, invisible city, one composed of the immaterial architecture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9055445282
• ISBN13: 9789055445288
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Ludion
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher