[PDF.65it] Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Ife History, Power, and Identity, c.1300

Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Ife History, Power, and Identity, c.1300

[PDF.zk01] Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Ife History, Power, and Identity, c.1300

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 | #1794494 in eBooks |  2014-12-31 |  2015-03-24 | File type: PDF

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||2 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Preserving the Yoruba Identity|By Barbara Steinberg|Blier connects us with the Yoruba way of thinking about the living and the dead, art, war, and God. She preserves their genuine, detailed identity against the more prolific histories of colonialism and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Using the holes near the roots of trees, the dead would travel in and out of Il&eac| |"First encountered by foreign observers a century ago, the arts of ancient Ife have since astonished and baffled scholars and connoisseurs alike. Blier's research, Shakespearean in scope, at last connects these sublime sculptures to a tumultuous past and a vit

In this book, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the intersection of art, risk and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife and the striking ways that ancient Ife artworks inform society, politics, history and religion. Yoruba art offers a unique lens into one of Africa's most important and least understood early civilizations, one whose historic arts have long been of interest to local residents and Westerners alike because of their tour-de-force visua...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Ife History, Power, and Identity, c.1300   |  Suzanne Preston Blier. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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