Fang Du Book

Language: en
Pages: 164

Fang

Author(s): Louis Perrois

Categories: Art

Type: Book
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Published: 2006
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Publisher: 5Continents

Fang art is one of the most distinguished arts of Black Africa. Its masks, with their facial markings, abstract features and strong, elegant lines, were among the most influential in 20th century modern art. Fang figures, called Bieri, are renowned for their child-like proportions contrasted with a muscular, poised vigilance. Fang art also includes iron currency and other objects that exhibit the traditional African ability to making everyday functional objects things of artistic merit. Fang reviews these artifacts and their social, ritual or symbolic characters. Statuettes related to ancestors, dance masks of the various rites, insignia of power, headdresses and jewellery, decorated music instruments and everyday utensils, all have an amazingly varied aesthetic creativity, in harmony with their profuse world of beliefs and myths.

Language: en
Pages: 522

The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World: Ceremonies of the Jews and the Roman Catholicks. [Part 1.] A dissertation upon religious worship. An historical dissertation on the ceremonies and customs of the present Jews, translated from the Italian of Leo of Modena by Monsieur de Simonville. A second dissertation ... in which those ceremonies, and the discipline of the Christian church are compar'd together, by F. Simon. A third dissertation ... being a supplement to the two preceding ... by ***. Part 2. On the Christian religion, according to the principles of the Roman Catholics. v. 2. A continuation of the dissertations concerning the customs and religious ceremonies of the Roman Catholicks. Historical memoirs relating to the Inquisition. v. 3. Containing the ceremonies of the idolatrous nations. On the Americans, and the conformity of their customs with those of other nations, antient and modern. The conformity of the customs of the East-Indians, with those of the Jews, and other antient nations. A discovery of the sect of the Banians ... by the Reverend Mr. Lord. On the religion and manners of the Bramins, extracted from the memoirs of the Rev. Abraham Roger. An historical dissertation on the gods of the East-Indians

Categories: Rites and ceremonies

Type: Book
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Published: 1723
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Publisher: Unknown

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Language: en
Pages: 3951

Africana

Author(s): Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)

Categories: History

Type: Book
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Published: 2005
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Publisher: Unknown

Ninety years after W.E.B. Du Bois first articulated the need for "the equivalent of a black Encyclopedia Britannica," Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., realized his vision by publishing Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience in 1999. This new, greatly expanded edition of the original work broadens the foundation provided by Africana. Including more than one million new words, Africana has been completely updated and revised. New entries on African kingdoms have been added, bibliographies now accompany most articles, and the encyclopedia's coverage of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean has been expanded, transforming the se...