Asen, ancestors, and vodun tracing change in african art.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Urbana University of Illinois press 2008Description: XIV, 186 p. illContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0-252-03255-1
  • 978-0-252-03255-4
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Contents:
A note on orthography -- Introduction -- Vodun, sacrifice, and the sinuka -- The invention of ancestral asen -- The Hountondji family of Smiths and Dahomean royal patronage -- From tourist to sacred: colonial culture and the creation of traditions -- Messages of power: asen tableau to the early twentieth century -- Mixed messages and migrating meanings -- Death and the culture wars: the 1990s.
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book Library of Ethnosociology & Ethnohistory 118.199 ASE Available 3709430-10

A note on orthography -- Introduction -- Vodun, sacrifice, and the sinuka -- The invention of ancestral asen -- The Hountondji family of Smiths and Dahomean royal patronage -- From tourist to sacred: colonial culture and the creation of traditions -- Messages of power: asen tableau to the early twentieth century -- Mixed messages and migrating meanings -- Death and the culture wars: the 1990s.