The Museum Journal

The Museum Journal
Author: University of Pennsylvania. University Museum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 704
Release: 1920
Genre: Archaeology
ISBN:

The Mande Blacksmiths

The Mande Blacksmiths
Author: Patrick R. McNaughton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1988
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780253336835

" ... Finely crafted scholarship. Elegant and graceful, yet packed with knowledge and information, it embodies the aesthetic qualities which it describes and explores." American Ethnologist "The text is detailed and informative, and enjoyable reading ..." Choice "The Mande Blacksmith is an important book ... sensitive, sympathetic, multifaceted, and thorough ..." African Arts "McNaughton's Mande Blacksmiths is undeniably the most profound study of African artists yet published." Ethnoarts " ... penetrating ... McNaughton boldly grapples with the thorniest issues related to his subject and articulates them with clarity and precision." International Journal of African Historical Studies " ... a work in the best tradition of ethnographic research ... critical reappraisal, innovative inquiry, and fresh observation ... make this book an invaluable fund of new material on Mande societies ..." American Anthropologist "McNaughton ... provides an important interpretation of these artists' conceptual place as members of a complex culture." Religious Studies Review Examining the artistic, technological, social, and spiritual dimensions of Mande blacksmiths, who are the sculptors of their society, McNaughton defines these artists conceptual place as extraordinary members of a complex culture.

Nature

Nature
Author: Sir Norman Lockyer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 984
Release: 1921
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

El Palacio

El Palacio
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1062
Release: 1918
Genre: Archaeology
ISBN: