Songye Masks and Figure Sculpture
Author : Dunja Hersak
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Art, African
ISBN :
Author : Dunja Hersak
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Art, African
ISBN :
Author : Philip M. Peek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1509 pages
File Size : 18,39 MB
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1135948720
Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.
Author : S. Brent Plate
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1472595483
Material religion is a rapidly growing field, and this volume offers an accessible, critical entry into these new areas of research. Each "key term" uses case studies and is accompanied by a color image – an object, practice, space, or site. The entries cut across geographies, histories, and traditions, offering a versatile and engaging text for the classroom. Key topics covered include: - Icon, ritual, magic, gender, race - Sacred, spirit, technology, - Space, belief, body, brain - Taste, touch, smell, sound, vision Each entry demonstrates in clear and jargon-free prose how the key term figures prominently in understanding the materiality of religion. Written by leading international scholars, all entries are linked by the ways materiality stands at the forefront of the understanding of religion, whether that comes from humanistic, social scientific, artistic, curatorial, or other perspectives. Brent Plate brings his expertise and extensive teaching experience to the comprehensive introduction which introduces students to the themes and methods of the material cultural study of religion. Key Terms in Material Religion provides a much-needed resource for courses on theory and method in religious studies, the anthropology of religion, and the ever-increasing number of courses focused on material religion.
Author : Simon Ottenberg
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Author : Francois Neyt
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 2019-10-31
Category :
ISBN : 9788874398645
Offers a fresh perspective on the Songye and Luba through the study of the Woods Davy Collection Kifwebe masks are ceremonial objects used by the Songye and Luba societies (Democratic Republic of Congo), where they are worn with costumes consisting of a long robe and a long beard made of plant fibres. As in other central African cultures, the same mask can be used in either magical and religious or festive ceremonies. In order to understand Kifwebe masks, it is essential to consider them within the cosmogony of the python rainbow, metalworking in the forge, and other plant and animal signs. Among the Songye, benevolent female masks reveal what is hidden and balance white and red energy associated with two subsequent initiations, the bukishi. Aggressive male masks were originally involved in social control and had a kind of policing role, carried out in accordance with the instructions of village elders. These two male and female forces acted in a balanced way to reinforce harmony within the village. Among the Luba, the masked figures are also benevolent and appear at the new moon, their role being to enhance fertility. Although the male and female masks fulfil functions that do not wholly overlap, they do have features in common: a frontal crest, round and excessively protruding eyes, flaring nostrils, a cube-shaped mouth and lips, stripes, and colors. Art historians and anthropologists have taken increasing interest in Kifwebe masks in recent years.
Author : Etnografisch Museum (Antwerp, Belgium)
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Hope B. Werness
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780826419132
Animals and their symbolism in diverse world cultures and different eras of human history are chronicled in this lovely volume.
Author : Christine M. Kreamer
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 1580933432
A groundbreaking scholarly publication, accompanying an exhibition organized by the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, African Cosmos: Stellar Arts brings together exceptional works of art, dating from ancient times to the present, and essays by leading scholars and contemporary artists to consider African cultural astronomy: creativity and artistic practice in Africa as it is linked to celestial bodies and atmospheric phenomena. African concepts of the universe are intensely personal, placing human beings in relation to the earth and sky, and with the sun, moon, and stars. At the core of creation myths and the foundation of moral values, celestial bodies are often accorded sacred capacities and are part of the “cosmological map” that allows humans to chart their course through life.
Author : François Neyt
Publisher : Musee Dapper
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Christa Clarke
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN :