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Bamana: Visions of Africa - Jean Paul Colleyn

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Bamana: Visions of Africa - Jean Paul Colleyn

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Bamana: Visions of Africa

Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: 5 Continents Editions (October 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 8874393482
ISBN-13: 978-8874393482
Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.6 x 0.6 inches

The Bamana (or Bambara) are members of the Mande culture, a large and powerful group of peoples in western Africa. The artistic tradition of the Bamana is rich, encompassing pottery, sculpture, beautiful bokolanfini cloth, and wrought-iron figures crafted by blacksmiths. They also have an extensive tradition of masks, which are used as a form of social control and community education. This volume focuses on the aesthetic qualities of the masterpieces of Bamana religious art in Mali and resituates them in their social, aesthetic, and cultural context. The emphasis is on pieces used in rites of passage (Ntomo, funerals), or by agricultural cooperatives, and initiation societies (Jo, Komo, Kono, Tyiwara, Namakoro). The pieces are sublime precisely because they stand at the crossroads of religion, art, and politics. Works included in the book are from the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seattle Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Indiana University Art Museum, Museum for African Art NY, National Museum of African Art (Smithsonian Institution).

About the author:
Jean-Paul Colleyn, anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, is Head of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and has taught at New York University. He is the author and director of thirty documentary films, several books and many articles on anthropological subjects in Mali, where he has been doing fieldwork since 1972.

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