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Art and religion in Africa /
Africa's religious and artistic traditions constitute a primary example of its intellectual and cultural vitality. Artistic works play a vital role - especially where oral traditions dominate - in communicating ideas about the relationship between the human, spiritual and natural worlds. This w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Cassell,
1998.
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| Colección: | Religion and the arts series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Creation, creativity and agency
- Envisioning and (re)presenting the spirit world
- Ethos, cosmos and hierarchy
- Revealing and concealing: the art of initiation and secret societies
- The aesthetic as antidote and transformer
- Shrines as ritual and aesthetic space
- Allusion and illusion: the rituals and symbols of death and beyond
- Conclusion: Winds of change.