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 115
Desplagnes illustrated a graceful example with a small iron hook projecting downward from the back of the shaft that supports the cup , which makes the whole lamp resemble the sacred Dogon , iron insignia often found embedded in altars ...
Desplagnes illustrated a graceful example with a small iron hook projecting downward from the back of the shaft that supports the cup , which makes the whole lamp resemble the sacred Dogon , iron insignia often found embedded in altars ...
الصفحة 116
On the one - cup lamps these figures are abstract enough to be barely discernible , and they are associated with a particular forging technique formerly used to attach the cups to their shafts . This was done by bending one and one ...
On the one - cup lamps these figures are abstract enough to be barely discernible , and they are associated with a particular forging technique formerly used to attach the cups to their shafts . This was done by bending one and one ...
الصفحة 119
An art merchant in Ségou , perhaps anxious to be helpful , said that the geometric shapes forged into lamp shafts ... rods that emerge from either side of the central shaft to become human arms held out and bent upward at the elbow .
An art merchant in Ségou , perhaps anxious to be helpful , said that the geometric shapes forged into lamp shafts ... rods that emerge from either side of the central shaft to become human arms held out and bent upward at the elbow .
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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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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
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| العنوان | The Mande Blacksmiths: Knowledge, Power, and Art in West Africa المجلد 798 من Midland books 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 |
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