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Tribes
Category : AFRICA
Author : by Art Wolfe
ISBN : 0517703688
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Description : In his introduction to this striking portrait collection, anthropologist David Maybury-Lewis writes, "In the beginning we were all tribal," a simple yet resonant observation that helps explain the depth of our response to the glorious displays of body ornamentation so lovingly documented here
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Added on : Jul 22, 2002 by sunhawk
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The Victim and Its Masks
Category : AFRICA
Author : Abdellah Hammoudi
ISBN : 0226315258a
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Description : Each year, in a solemn Sunni Muslim feast, the Ait Mazine of northern Morocco reenact the story of Abraham as a ritual sacrifice, a symbolic observance of submission to the divine. After comes a bacchanalian masquerade which seems to violate every principle the sacrifice affirmed. Costumed men sing and dance and torment villagers, their wild activities centering around a mute figure sewn into the skins of sacrificed animals. This character is attended by several others who keep up a constant patter that mocks the social order, especially marriage, women, older men, and the Qu'ran. Because of the apparent contradiction between sacrifice and masquerade, observers have described the two as entirely separate events. Abdellah Hammoudi's study reunites them as a single ritual process within Islamic tradition. Working with metaphors of stage and play, Hammoudi details the festival from the rituals of makeup and costume through the final spectacle. Each part of the ceremony denies and at the same time conjures up the other. The contradictions inherent in social and religious life are vividly enacted; sacrifice and masquerade appear.
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The People of Kau
Category : AFRICA
Author : Leni Riefenstahl
ISBN : 0312169639
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Description : In this modern world, it's hard for us to see how the "wild people live. The People of Kau showed how the people tattooing, hunting, fighting, & dressing up etc. They're the really collectiable pics
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Added on : Jul 22, 2002 by sunhawk
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