| Description |
267 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 31 cm |
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"Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title organized and presented by The Museum for African Art, New York, in cooperation with The Baltimore Museum of Art. The exhibition will travel to The Baltimore Museum of Art and other museums"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-265). |
| Contents |
Authority and the creation of a narrative on the Baga -- The coastal matrix: early settlement before the French -- Ethnohistory: the legacy of the Fouta Djallon -- Masculine and feminine clans and their patron spirits -- The welfare of the clan and the invention of God -- The creation of status: the age grades -- Spirits of the composite beast: the justification of disparate worlds -- Foundations of a new society: the construction and deconstruction of beauty and goodness -- The colonial watershed: social conflict and resolution under the French order -- Spirits of defiance and reinvention -- The Islamic watershed: a culture held in reserve, 1955-1985 -- The present dilemma: age grades and the valuation of heritage. |
| Summary |
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 boys to elders and ritual leaders of over 100 years of age. Artistic creation and reinvention form the core of issues raised throughout the art historical drama. |
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Arts, Baga.
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Arts, Black -- Guinea.
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Baga (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Arts, Baga. (OCoLC)fst00817916
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Arts, Black. (OCoLC)fst00817930
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Guinea. (OCoLC)fst01206005
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01424028
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Exhibition catalogs.
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Museum for African Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Baltimore Museum of Art.
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| ISBN |
3791317253 |
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9783791317250 |
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0945802188 (pbk.) |
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9780945802181 (pbk.) |
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