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Detail of cover - FOUR DAN SCULTORS (johnson25p 150/190 JOHN25)
Johnson, Barbara C. FOUR DAN SCULPTORS. Continuity and Change. BNo. 0-88401-049-X. First Edition, 1986 (pb). Pp: xviii, 102; 275mm x 215mm; 0.62kg. 90 col & b/w, 1 map. Foreword, acknowledgments, preface, catalogue, bibliography. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, 1986. (This catalogue was written to accompany an exhibition of works from four individual artists of the Dan people of Liberia. The work of each is considered in its cultural context. It is also an in-depth look at the Dan art tradition) (Keywords: Ethnology, Dan, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire).
Book Code: M763 AU$32
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Koloss, Hans-Joachim. ART OF CENTRAL AFRICA. Masterpieces from the Berlin Museum fur Volkerkunde. BNo. 0-87099-590-1. First Edition, 1990 (pb). Pp: 87; 280mm x 215mm; 0.38kg. 18 col, 46 b/w, 6 fig, 1 map. Foreword, acknowledgments, introduction, bibliography, appendix. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990. (This book is a catalogue for an exhibition of art from Zaire and adjacent parts of Angola and the People's Republic of Congo) (Keywords: Ethnology, artefacts, Azande, Bondo, Kongo, Suku, Chokwe, Lulua, Songye, Luba).
Book Code: J010 AU$30
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Detail of wrapper - ART OF THE BAGA - A Drama of Cultural Reinvention
Lamp, Frederick. ART OF THE BAGA - A Drama of Cultural Reinvention. The Museum of African Art, New York. BNo. 3-7913-1725-3. First Edition, 1996. Pp: 268; 300mm x 230mm; 1.72kg. 187 col, 63 b/w. Preface, acknowledgments, foreword, glossary, bibliography. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Prestel-Verlag, Munich, 1996. (In this book, the Baga voice is heard prominently in the direct testimony of three Baga writers and forty Baga consultants of all ages and background experience. The art and the cultural history of the Baga people is examined through a series of older written and contemporary oral reports, customs, traditions, and photographs) (Keywords: Cultural history, ethnology, West Africa, Guinea, Baga).
Book Code: R352 AU$98
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Lawal, Babatunde. THE GELEDE SPECTACLE. Art, Gender, and Social Harmony. BNo. 0-295-97599-7. First Edition, 1996 (pb). Pp: xxiv, 327; 250mm x 175mm; 1.18kg. 20 col, 130 b/w, 10 fig, 2 maps. Acknowledgments, note, introduction, glossary, bibliography, credits, index. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1996. (This study explores the use of visual and performing arts to promote non-violence and social harmony in sub-Saharan Africa) (Keywords: Yoruba, southwestern Nigeria, Benin).
Book Code: M762 AU$35
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Detail of wrapper - AFRICAN WARRIORS
Magor, Thomasin. AFRICAN WARRIORS. The Samburu. BNo. 0-00-272183-X. First Edition, 1994. Pp: 256; 350mm x 260mm; 2.20kg. 200 col, 2 maps. Acknowledgments, introduction, epilogue. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Harvill Imprint, Harper Collins Publishers, London, 1994. (This book contains images of the lives of the Samburu warrior herdsmen, the women, the children and the elders, their rituals, hairstyles, body-painting, dances and feast days. In doing so it also provides a cohesive picture of a whole people) (Keywords: Photography, East Africa, Kenya, Samburu).
Book Code: R484 AU$95
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Detail of wrapper - THE DESERTS OF AFRICA (martin10p 180/239 MART10)
Martin, Michael (text & photography). THE DESERTS OF AFRICA. Travelling through the Sahara, the Rift Valley, the Kalahari, and the Namib. BNo.1-58479-028-8. First Edition (USA), 2000. Pp: 192; 280mm x 280mm; 1.72kg. Num col, 4 maps. Foreword, acknowledgments, facts. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Stewart, Tabori & Chang, New York, 2000. (Michael Martin's brilliantly vibrant photographs reveal the beauty, majesty and spirituality of these places and their people) (Keywords: Photography, deserts, indigenous peoples, Africa, Sahara, Rift Valley, Kalahari, Namib, Kanuri, Tuareg, Tubu, Bororo, Samburu, Maasai, San, Damara, Herero).
Book Code: S436 AU$40
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Northern, Tamara. EXPRESSIONS OF CAMEROON ART. The Franklin Collection. BNo. 0-9617169-0-8. First Edition, 1986 (pb). Pp: 79; 305mm x 230mm; 0.40kg. 11 col, 89 b/w, 2 fig, 1 map. Preface, foreword, provisional stylistic comparison chart, bibliography. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Rembrandt Press, California, 1986. (This book exhibits the artistic tradition of the Cameroon Grassfields area. The art is primarily an art of royalty, status and wealth) (Keywords: Ethnology, Africa, Western, Eastern Grassfields, Tikar, Bankim, Mbo, Bamileke, Bamum).
Book Code: J052 AU$24
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Detail of wrapper of AFRICAN MINIATURES - The Goldweights of the Ashanti
Plass, Margaret Webster. AFRICAN MINIATURES. The Goldweights of the Ashanti. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1967. Pp: 26; 250mm x 180mm; 0.62kg. 166 b/w(pl), 1 map. Foreword, bibliography, acknowledgments, introduction. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: g. (clipped dw; minor wear on dw). Lund, Humphries & Co Ltd, London, 1967. (This book is concerned with the small brass weights used to measure out the gold dust and nuggets on which the Ashanti economy was based) (Keywords: Cultural history, gold commerce, West Africa, Ashanti).
Book Code: G079 AU$55
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Preston, George Nelson. AFRICAN ART MASTERPIECES. New Perspectives. BNo. 0-88363-801-0. First Edition 1991. Pp: 120; 305mm x 225mm; 1.04kg. Num col, 1 map. Acknowledgments, appendix, further reading, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Hugh Lauter Levin Associates Inc, New York, 1991. (This book is a collection of forty-eight images from the world of African art. In full-colour reproductions, accompanied by commentaries and introduction, the art of numerous African peoples across the continent are featured) (Keywords: Ethnology, Mongo, Zulu, Luba, Akan, Ogoni, Chokwe, Yoruba, Bini, Samburu, Karmajonge, Ndengese).
Book Code: E032 AU$40
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Detail of wrapper of PEOPLE OF KAU (riefenstahl01p 180/244 RIEF01)
Riefenstahl, Leni. THE PEOPLE OF KAU. Translated from the German by J. Maxwell Brownjohn. BNo. 0-00-216560-0. Third Reprint 1984 (1976). Pp: 224; 310mm x 230mm; 1.57kg. Num col. Introduction, notes on pictorial section, photographic information. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: g. (minor stain on top edge of cover; minor tear on top back of wrp). William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, London, 1984. (This book is a pictorial description of a people whom ethnologists call the South-East Nuba of the Sudanese province of Kordofan. Riefenstahl has photographed the parts of way-of-life of the Nuba of Kau that are different from the Mesakin Quissayr Nuba who were the subject of her last book 'The Last of the Nuba') (Keywords: Visual anthropology, photography, culture, Africa, South-East Sudan, Nuba, Kau, Kordofan).
Book Code: M384 SOLD - now out of stock AU$60
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