Asen, Ancestors, and Vodun Tracing Change in African Art |
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| Author:
| Bay, Edna |
| ISBN: | 978-0-252-03255-4 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2008 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $95.99 |
Book Description:
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A social and iconographic history of a West African sculptural formLavishly illustrated with field photographs, Asen, Ancestors, and Vodun tells the remarkable history of the rise and decline of the sculptural tradition of ancestral asen in southern Benin. Asen, canonical metal art objects that are created to honor the spirits of ancestors and ......
A social and iconographic history of a West African sculptural formLavishly illustrated with field photographs, Asen, Ancestors, and Vodun tells the remarkable history of the rise and decline of the sculptural tradition of ancestral asen in southern Benin. Asen, canonical metal art objects that are created to honor the spirits of ancestors and ......