Author: Susan Mullin VogelPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870992678
Category : Art, African
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
For Spirits and Kings
Author: Susan Mullin VogelPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870992678
Category : Art, African
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
For Spirits and Kings
Author: Susan Mullin VogelPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
ISBN: 9780870992681
Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
For Spirits and Kings: African Art from the Paul and Ruth Tishman Collection
Author: Kings, Gods & Spirits from African Mythology
Author: Jan KnappertPublisher: VNew York : Schocken ; Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN: 9780805240184
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A collection of African myths, legends and fables about gods, spirits, ghosts, heroes, and animals.
Kings, Spirits and Memory in Central India
Author: Aditya Pratap DeoPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000460940
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Part anthropological history and part memoir, this book is a unique study of the polity of the colonial-princely state of Kanker in central India. The author, a scion of the erstwhile ruling family of Kanker, delves into the oral accounts given in the ancestral deity practices of the mixed tribe-caste communities of the region to highlight popular narratives of its historical polity. As he struggles with his own dilemmas as ethnographer-king, what comes into view is a polity where the princely state is drawn out amidst a terrain of gods and spirits as much as that of law courts and magistrates, and political power is divided, contested and shared between the raja/state and the people. This study constitutes not only an intervention in the larger debate on the relationship between state formations and tribal peoples, but also on the very nature of history as a knowledge practice, especially the understandings of power, authority and sovereignty in it. Combining intensive ethnography, complementary archival work and crucial theoretical questions engaging social scientists worldwide, the author charts an unusual explanatory path that can allow us to obtain a meaningful understanding of societies/peoples that have historically been marginalized and seen as different. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of history, anthropology, politics, religion, tribal society and Modern South Asia.
Kings, Gods & Spirits from African Mythology
Author: Jan KnappertPublisher: Peter Bedrick Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
This fascinating book features 35 stories from the Zulu, Swahili, Bantu, Ashanti and other African cultures, passed down from generation to generation that are still told today. Filled with magnificent, full-color illustrations, an index, map and a guide to symbols in the mythology.
Dead Distillers
Author: Colin SpoelmanPublisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1613128894
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Founders and award-winning distillers of Kings County Distillery Colin Spoelman and David Haskell follow up their successful Guide to Urban Moonshining with an extensive history of the figures who distilled American spirits. The book presents 50 fascinating—and sometimes morbid—biographies from this historic trade’s bygone days, including farmers, scientists, oligarchs, criminals, and the occasional US president. Readers may be surprised to find the names George Washington, Henry Frick, or Andrew Mellon alongside the usual suspects long associated with booze—Jasper “Jack” Daniel, Jim Beam, and Julian “Pappy” Van Winkle. From the Whiskey Rebellion to Prohibition to the recent revival of craft spirits, the history of whiskey, moonshine, and other spirits remains an important part of Americana. Featuring historical photos, infographics, walking-tour maps, and noteworthy vintage newspaper clippings, it’s a rich visual and textual reference to a key piece of American history. Dead Distillers is a spirited portrait of the unusual and storied origins of forgotten drunkenness.
Flash of the Spirit
Author: Robert Farris ThompsonPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307874338
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This landmark book shows how five African civilizations—Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River—have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World.
Genesis
Author: Alisa LaGammaPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588390748
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The seventy-five masterpieces presented here, drawn from public and private American collections, are among the most celebrated icons of African art, works that are superb artistic creations as well as expressions of a society's most profound conceptions about its beginnings. All are reproduced in color and are accompanied by entries that illuminate the distinctive cultural contexts that inspired their creation and informed their appreciation."--BOOK JACKET.
Art of the Dogon
Author: Kate EzraPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0810918749
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description