Chokwe African
Posted in Uncategorized on 09/04/2011 04:15 pm by admin
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Chokwe (Heritage Library of African Peoples Central Africa) $24.99 Surveys the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Chokwe people of Angola, Zaire, and Zimbabwe…. |
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Art and Power in the Central African Savanna: Luba, Songye, Chokwe, Luluwa $33.72 Revealing the powers immanent in works that the West long regarded only as exotic or abstract, Constantine Petridis looks beneath the surface of the arts of the Luba, Songye, Chokwe and Luluwa peoples to find, literally embedded in sculpture, the forces that enable the spirit world to intervene in daily life. Ritual use of these objects is expected to ensure a healthy birth, successful hunt, or tr… |
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Baule: Visions of Africa Series $18.68 The Baule descend from the Akan peoples who inhabit Ghana and the Ivory Coast. Three hundred years ago the Baule people migrated westward from Ghana when the Asante rose to power. The Baule now reside at the center of the Ivory Coast and possess one of the most diversified of arts cultures. They employ different media, including wooden sculpture, gold and brass casting similar to their Asante ance… |