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 29
For all of the stages in between , smiths ' hammers are graduated by size and weight . ... Others employ a socket - type mount , with the wood handle passing through an opening in the hammer head , like Western hammers .
For all of the stages in between , smiths ' hammers are graduated by size and weight . ... Others employ a socket - type mount , with the wood handle passing through an opening in the hammer head , like Western hammers .
الصفحة 30
Unlike adzes , blacksmiths ' hammers do not balance lightly in midair with the smith's wrist flexed up . ... aided by the elbow , so that the whole forearm moves up as the wrist flexes , bringing the hammer head almost to the shoulder .
Unlike adzes , blacksmiths ' hammers do not balance lightly in midair with the smith's wrist flexed up . ... aided by the elbow , so that the whole forearm moves up as the wrist flexes , bringing the hammer head almost to the shoulder .
الصفحة 116
This was done by bending one and one - half to three inches of the upper shaft over the edge of the smith's anvil with hammer blows while the shaft was red - hot . When it had been bent nearly 180 degrees , a one to three inch tab ...
This was done by bending one and one - half to three inches of the upper shaft over the edge of the smith's anvil with hammer blows while the shaft was red - hot . When it had been bent nearly 180 degrees , a one to three inch tab ...
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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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| العنوان | The Mande Blacksmiths: Knowledge, Power, and Art in West Africa المجلد 798 من Midland book Traditional arts of Africa |
| المؤلف | Patrick R. McNaughton |
| الإصدار | مزود بصور توضيحية |
| الناشر | Indiana University Press, 1988 |
| أصلي من | جامعة ميتشيغان |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 13 أيلول (سبتمبر) 2008 |
| رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب) | 025333683X, 9780253336835 |
| عدد الصفحات | 241 من الصفحات |
| تصدير الاقتباس | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |