The Mande Blacksmiths: Knowledge, Power, and Art in West Africa" ... 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 19
Zahan gives us another explanation , when he notes that the boys ' initiation association called ntomo harbors tremendous hostility toward smiths , He finds this reasonable , because smiths are the surgeons who will circum -... cise the ...
Zahan gives us another explanation , when he notes that the boys ' initiation association called ntomo harbors tremendous hostility toward smiths , He finds this reasonable , because smiths are the surgeons who will circum -... cise the ...
الصفحة 124
Here are found two initiation associations , called jo and gwan , unique among the Mande in that they seem not to be ... segments of funeral ceremonies , when members marched in procession from the association sanctuary to the town .
Here are found two initiation associations , called jo and gwan , unique among the Mande in that they seem not to be ... segments of funeral ceremonies , when members marched in procession from the association sanctuary to the town .
الصفحة 130
They are worn by high - ranking officials of the kòmò association , often the leaders , kòmòtigiw , and always men who have spent many years developing the power needed to dance within such ereations and har ness the energies believed ...
They are worn by high - ranking officials of the kòmò association , often the leaders , kòmòtigiw , and always men who have spent many years developing the power needed to dance within such ereations and har ness the energies believed ...
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المحتوى
BLACKSMITHS IN MANDE SOCIETY | 1 |
THE MANDE SMITHS AS CRAFTSMEN | 22 |
SMITHS AND THE SHAPE OF CIVILIZED SPACE | 40 |
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