The Artfulness Of Death In Africa

Author : John Mack
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ISBN 13 : 9781789141238
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Artfulness of Death in Africa written by John Mack and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If weddings are the most lavish events in many parts of the world, in Sub-Saharan Africa, by contrast, it is funerals. Funeral celebrations can be flamboyant occasions, particularly those honoring prominent people. Artworks of many kinds are created to commemorate the dead from mortuary sculptures and extravagant coffins to elaborate headstones, memorials, monuments, and cenotaphs. This book is a unique survey of the artful nature of funerals in Africa. Drawing on a wide range of historical, anthropological, archaeological, art historical, and literary sources, John Mack charts the full range of African funereal art, highlighting examples from across the continent and from ancient times to today. Featuring abundant illustrations--some of which have never been published before--The Artfulness of Death in Africa is essential reading for those interested in African art, culture, society, and history.

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Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death, Ritual, and Art in Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anita J. Glaze
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Death in a Senufo Village written by Anita J. Glaze and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephanie Bunn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350094048
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Material Culture of Basketry written by Stephanie Bunn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Material Culture of Basketry celebrates basketry as a culturally significant skilled practice and as a theoretically rich discipline which has much to offer contemporary society. While sometimes understudied and underappreciated, it has much in common with mathematics and engineering, art, craft and design, and can also act as a socially beneficial source of skill and care. Contributors show how local knowledge of materials, plants and place are central to the craft. Case studies include the skill in weaverbird nest building (challenging how we perceive learning in craft and nature), an engineer's perspective on twining Peruvian grass bridges, and the local knowledge embodied in Pacific plaited patterns and knots. Photo-essays explore materials and techniques from the point of view of artists, anthropologists and mathematicians, revealing how the structure and skill in basketwork illustrate a significant form of textile technology. Thus, the book argues that the textures, patterns and geometric forms that emerge through basketwork reflect an embodied knowledge which expresses mathematical and engineering comprehension. The therapeutic value of the craft is recognised through a selection of case studies which consider basketry as a healing process for patients with brain injury, mental health problems, and as a memory aid for people living with dementia. This reclaims basketry's significant role in occupational therapy as an agent of recovery and well–being. Finally, basketry's inherently sustainable nature is also considered, demonstrating the continuation of basketry in spite of handwork's general decline and profiling new and recycled materials. Above all the book envisages basketry as an intellectually rewarding means of knowing. It presents the craft as embodying care for skilled making and for the social and natural environments in which it flourishes.

Author : Utah Museum of Fine Arts
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matters of Life and Death written by Utah Museum of Fine Arts and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chuu Krydz Ikwuemesi
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ISBN 13 : 9783962030704
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death and the Creative Instinct written by Chuu Krydz Ikwuemesi and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at mortuary activities and some creative acts associated with them in selected communities in Africa and the diaspora. Besides death narratives and mortuary rites which are vital in maintaining the centralizing myths of communities and groups, parts of the anthology problematize the tensions and conflicts that arise in the mill of postcolonialism and how they are reflected in the politics of dying, death and after-death in some African and diasporan communities. Beyond these concerns, death is seen here as a renegotiation of reality and, therefore, an agency of art and theatre, since art is essentially a re-representation of reality, the same concern that is at the heart of mortuary acts. Perhaps, the strength of the book is in the authors' ability to ask new questions about death and its social symbolism and to provide new insights through critical and groundbreaking perspectives.

Author : Peter Ritner
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Africa written by Peter Ritner and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1960 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of the situation in Africa today and suggestions for an American policy.

Author : Henrietta Lidchi
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526139227
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dividing the spoils written by Henrietta Lidchi and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time of heightened international interest in the colonial dimensions of museum collections, Dividing the Spoils provides new perspectives on the motivations and circumstances whereby collections were appropriated and acquired during colonial military service. Combining approaches from the fields of material anthropology, imperial and military history, this book argues for a deeper examination of these collections within a range of intercultural histories that include alliance, diplomacy, curiosity and enquiry, as well as expropriation and cultural hegemony. As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, Dividing the Spoils explores how the amassing of objects was understood and governed in British military culture, and considers how objects functioned in museum collections thereafter, suggesting new avenues for sustained investigation in a controversial, contested field.

Author : Anita J. Glaze
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Death in a Senufo Village written by Anita J. Glaze and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Mack
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674026933
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Small Things written by John Mack and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated book celebrates the art of the miniature, but also looks beyond it at the many aspects of "small worlds"--in particular, their capacity to evoke responses that far exceed their physical dimensions. Mack explores the talismanic, religious, or magical properties with which miniatures are often imbued. Considering a wide range of objects, he examines the use of the miniature form in various cultural contexts.