The Mande Blacksmiths: Knowledge, Power, and Art in West AfricaIndiana University Press, 1988 - 241 من الصفحات " ... 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 12
... sorcery . But with equal frequency such usages are countered with licit sorcery enacted on society's behalf . Because the power of sorcery is perceived as awesome , the Mande miti- gate its potency by hedging it round with precautions ...
... sorcery . But with equal frequency such usages are countered with licit sorcery enacted on society's behalf . Because the power of sorcery is perceived as awesome , the Mande miti- gate its potency by hedging it round with precautions ...
الصفحة 13
... sorcerers themselves , sometimes without anyone knowing it except for other sorcerers . The Mande consider knowledge of all kinds to be important and powerful , but the instrumental knowledge of sorcery stands at the pinnacle of potency ...
... sorcerers themselves , sometimes without anyone knowing it except for other sorcerers . The Mande consider knowledge of all kinds to be important and powerful , but the instrumental knowledge of sorcery stands at the pinnacle of potency ...
الصفحة 41
... Sorcery and herbal healing are the focal points of the blacksmiths ' creden- tials as mediators . These two occupations interface in a system of knowledge and articulation that shapes reality through the activation of nature's re ...
... Sorcery and herbal healing are the focal points of the blacksmiths ' creden- tials as mediators . These two occupations interface in a system of knowledge and articulation that shapes reality through the activation of nature's re ...
المحتوى
THE MANDE SMITHS AS CRAFTSMEN | 22 |
SMITHS AND THE SHAPE OF CIVILIZED SPACE | 40 |
THE BLACKSMITHS SCULPTURE | 101 |
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adze African amulets animal articulation Bamako Bamana Bambara Bani River bards become bellows bird masquerade blacksmiths blade Bougouni called caste Charles Bird circumcision Cissé clans considered culture cups daliluw dance dangerous Dieterlen Dioila divination Dogon door locks Dunbiya Dyula energy example Fula groups hammer head herbal horns human hunters Imperato initiation association Interview iron figure iron lamps iron staffs Kaarta Kalilou Tera kind knife knowledge kòmò masks Magan Fane Mali Empire Malinké Mande language Mande sculpture Mande smiths Maninka Markala mask wearer means Monteil nyama nyamakala occult performance personal communication Photo Photograph by Jeffrey piece PLATE possess praise sculpted secret Sedu Traore Sedu's Ségou Ségou region Sekuba Camara Senufo Seydou Camara shaft shape Sidi Ballo slaves smelting snake song Soninke sorcery spear Sumanguru Kante Sunjata supernatural symbolize techniques things tion town traditional types Western Wolin wood Zahan