Wild Bull and the Sacred Forest - Form, Meaning, and Change in Senegambian Initiation Masks

Klappentext This study of the cattle-horned initiation masks of southern Senegal and the Gambia gives a detailed view of Casamance cultures. Zusammenfassung This study of the cattle-horned initiation masks of southern Senegal and the Gambia weaves together art history! history! and cultural anthropology to give a detailed view of Casamance cultures! as they have interacted and changed over the past two centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: method and subject; 2. Ethnographic background; 3. Bukut initiation; 4. History and provenance of the Ejumba mask; 5. Iconography of the horned mask; 6. Mandinka or Jola? Art and culture as regional processes; 7. Islam and Casamance masking traditions; 8. Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Mark, Peter A. Mark
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521180870
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18087-0
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: Res Monographs in Anthropology; Res Monographs in Anthropology and Aesthetics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Sociology, ART / General, Art of indigenous peoples, History of Art, Social and cultural anthropology