The Mande Blacksmiths: Knowledge, Power, and Art in West AfricaIndiana University Press, 1988 - 241 من الصفحات " ... Finely crafted scholarship. Elegant and graceful, yet packed with knowledge and information, it embodies the aesthetic qualities which it describes and explores." American Ethnologist "The text is detailed and informative, and enjoyable reading ..." Choice "The Mande Blacksmith is an important book ... sensitive, sympathetic, multifaceted, and thorough ..." African Arts "McNaughton's Mande Blacksmiths is undeniably the most profound study of African artists yet published." Ethnoarts " ... penetrating ... McNaughton boldly grapples with the thorniest issues related to his subject and articulates them with clarity and precision." International Journal of African Historical Studies " ... a work in the best tradition of ethnographic research ... critical reappraisal, innovative inquiry, and fresh observation ... make this book an invaluable fund of new material on Mande societies ..." American Anthropologist "McNaughton ... provides an important interpretation of these artists' conceptual place as members of a complex culture." Religious Studies Review Examining the artistic, technological, social, and spiritual dimensions of Mande blacksmiths, who are the sculptors of their society, McNaughton defines these artists conceptual place as extraordinary members of a complex culture. |
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الصفحة xiv
... Bamako and Bougouni , just east of the Niger River ( Map 1 ) . I also made some brief excursions : north to the area around the town of Banamba ; east to the areas around Ségou , Markala , and San ; south through Sikasso ; and west on ...
... Bamako and Bougouni , just east of the Niger River ( Map 1 ) . I also made some brief excursions : north to the area around the town of Banamba ; east to the areas around Ségou , Markala , and San ; south through Sikasso ; and west on ...
الصفحة xv
... Bamako . His father , in later life , had built a small blacksmiths ' hamlet at the top of the Mande Plateau , which afforded a mag- nificent view of the great plains astride the Niger River . But I met Sedu in a town south of Bamako ...
... Bamako . His father , in later life , had built a small blacksmiths ' hamlet at the top of the Mande Plateau , which afforded a mag- nificent view of the great plains astride the Niger River . But I met Sedu in a town south of Bamako ...
الصفحة xvii
... Bamako . He was quite knowledgeable about art and took a great interest in efforts to preserve and explain it . Dugutigi Traore was a farmer who came to Bamako with the hope of discovering another line of work . I met him through my ...
... Bamako . He was quite knowledgeable about art and took a great interest in efforts to preserve and explain it . Dugutigi Traore was a farmer who came to Bamako with the hope of discovering another line of work . I met him through my ...
المحتوى
THE MANDE SMITHS AS CRAFTSMEN | 22 |
SMITHS AND THE SHAPE OF CIVILIZED SPACE | 40 |
THE BLACKSMITHS SCULPTURE | 101 |
حقوق النشر | |
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