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 13
The vast majority of the Mande use amulets , for example , to enhance the quality of their existence and provide a kind of prophylactic insurance against catastrophe . The vast majority seek the expertise of soothsayers and traditional ...
The vast majority of the Mande use amulets , for example , to enhance the quality of their existence and provide a kind of prophylactic insurance against catastrophe . The vast majority seek the expertise of soothsayers and traditional ...
الصفحة 14
The kind of people who use sorcery in this way are held to be either temporarily or habitually unrestrained by the niceties of Mande mores . They are aggressive , often egocentric , and quite prepared to be extremely disruptive .
The kind of people who use sorcery in this way are held to be either temporarily or habitually unrestrained by the niceties of Mande mores . They are aggressive , often egocentric , and quite prepared to be extremely disruptive .
الصفحة 110
A Mande proverb makes the same kind of statement , but more directly : To know animals is good . To know trees is good . To know oneself is better than them all.2 26 The many forms of Mande divination are techniques that help human ...
A Mande proverb makes the same kind of statement , but more directly : To know animals is good . To know trees is good . To know oneself is better than them all.2 26 The many forms of Mande divination are techniques that help human ...
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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 | |
5 من الأقسام الأخرى غير ظاهرة
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
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