Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention Tapa blanda - 1996

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E-046: The Museum for African Art/Prestel. Very Good. 1996. Paperback. Trade PB. 4to. The Museum for African Art/Prestel, New York. 1996. 267 pgs. Illustrated throughout. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention traces the art and cultural history of these very special African people from their legendary flight from the mystical highlands of the interior of Guinea to the coast, in their attempt to conserve their own religious ritual, to the eventual destruction of their traditions at mid century with the conversion to Islam and, with independence from France, the establishment of the Republic of Guinea under an iconoclastic Marxist regime. In the book, the Baga voice is heard prominently in the direct testimony of three Baga writers and forty Baga consultants of all ages and background experience, from ten-year-old… Leer más

The Museum for African Art/Prestel, 1996-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

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