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 131
Kòmò masks harness energy and control it on society's behalf . They do so through the blacksmiths who made them and the blacksmiths who wear them . An individual kòmò mask is , in reality , a wooden scaffolding onto and into which are ...
Kòmò masks harness energy and control it on society's behalf . They do so through the blacksmiths who made them and the blacksmiths who wear them . An individual kòmò mask is , in reality , a wooden scaffolding onto and into which are ...
الصفحة 135
a power of one of these old masks can be compared to that of a kòmò leader . ... doing the things that tax a mask wearer's capabilities , most notably discovering malevolence and destroying it without being destroyed himself .
a power of one of these old masks can be compared to that of a kòmò leader . ... doing the things that tax a mask wearer's capabilities , most notably discovering malevolence and destroying it without being destroyed himself .
الصفحة 138
a a Finally , we must consider the mask surfaces which are not specifically symbolic but by common consent constitute ... Kòmò masks , then , assemble discordant organic elements that would never be so intimately associated in nature .
a a Finally , we must consider the mask surfaces which are not specifically symbolic but by common consent constitute ... Kòmò masks , then , assemble discordant organic elements that would never be so intimately associated in nature .
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المحتوى
BLACKSMITHS IN MANDE SOCIETY | 1 |
THE MANDE SMITHS AS CRAFTSMEN | 22 |
SMITHS AND THE SHAPE OF CIVILIZED SPACE | 40 |
حقوق النشر | |
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طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
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