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Author : Herbert M. Cole,Chike Cyril Aniakor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015024796107
Author : Vernantius Emeka Ndukaihe
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3825899292
Achievement seems to be a first-class value in our world today. With the ongoing global debate on what constitutes identity, can we include achievement as one of the constituents? In the Igbo/African identity, the achievement instinct is basically innate. The ethics of this phenomenon needs an evaluation, aimed at improving the status quo. What is the plight of the Igbo/African "achieving" in the face of modern capitalistic tendencies? What has become of the many other values in her identity, which has been her pride as a race? How is her religiosity (which is inseparable from daily living) affected by "modernity" and its new trends of the achievement ethos? These are some of the issues that are addressed in this book with the conviction that theology, achievement and identity are continuity.
Author : Adolphus Chikezie Anuka
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06
Category : Evangelistic work
ISBN : 9783643910639
The joy over the growth of Christianity in Africa is also a challenge to all concerned to help Christianity take roots, ennoble and become one with the cultural life of the numerous tribes of Africa. This missionary expectation is not yet fully realized in many local churches in Africa. From these perspectives, Adolphus Chikezie Anuka inaugurates a new brand of concrete, target-oriented emphasis on dialogical inculturation. In this book, the Mmanwu cultural institution of the Igbo people of south eastern Nigeria stands in central focus, opening itself to the influences of Christian values as well as speaking to the religious assumptions of Christianity. The theoretical results of this research work and its practical pastoral suggestions are both enlightening and appealing.
Author : Simon Ottenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 1592214428
Encompassing over 40 years of scholarly research on African art, both traditional and modern, by anthropologist Simon Ottenberg. Focusing on the arts of the Afikpo, an Igbo group in southeastern Nigeria, the essays discuss art objects in context of their use in performance and ritual and the symbolism of aesthetic forms and behaviour.
Author : Toyin Falola,Raphael Chijioke Njoku
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253022578
The Igbo are one of the most populous ethnic groups in Nigeria and are perhaps best known and celebrated in the work of Chinua Achebe. In this landmark collection on Igbo society and arts, Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku have compiled a detailed and innovative examination of the Igbo experience in Africa and in the diaspora. Focusing on institutions and cultural practices, the volume covers the enslavement, middle passage, and American experience of the Igbo as well as their return to Africa and aspects of Igbo language, society, and cultural arts. By employing a variety of disciplinary perspectives, this volume presents a comprehensive view of how the Igbo were integrated into the Atlantic world through the slave trade and slavery, the transformations of Igbo identities and culture, and the strategies for resistance employed by the Igbo in the New World. Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this collection includes 21 essays by prominent scholars throughout the world.
Author : Simon Ottenberg
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114565323
Author : Library of Congress,Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division,Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : MINN:30000009706908
Author : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1282 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015038642115
Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1820 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015057968474
Author : Herbert Cole
Publisher : 5Continents
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 8874396325
Igbo art is famous for its diversity, inventiveness, and aesthetic quality. This wide-ranging survey of art made by the 15 to 20 million Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria focuses on the 20th century but also takes a look at the extraordinary 9th- and 10th-century bce cast copper alloy and ceramic finds that influenced Igbo artworks created 20 centuries later. Ceremonial contexts and meanings are explained, covering art associated with individuals as well as communal works and ranging from personal decoration to architectural forms, from household objects to cult sculpture, title regalia, and public shrines. Many little-known objects are included alongside a generous sampling of the thousands of masks that are perhaps the quintessential forms of Igbo art.
Author : Ben-Ami Scharfstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226736112
People all over the world make art and take pleasure in it, and they have done so for millennia. But acknowledging that art is a universal part of human experience leads us to some big questions: Why does it exist? Why do we enjoy it? And how do the world’s different art traditions relate to art and to each other? Art Without Borders is an extraordinary exploration of those questions, a profound and personal meditation on the human hunger for art and a dazzling synthesis of the whole range of inquiry into its significance. Esteemed thinker Ben-Ami Scharfstein’s encyclopedic erudition is here brought to bear on the full breadth of the world of art. He draws on neuroscience and psychology to understand the way we both perceive and conceive of art, including its resistance to verbal exposition. Through examples of work by Indian, Chinese, European, African, and Australianartists, Art Without Borders probes the distinction between accepting a tradition and defying it through innovation, which leads to a consideration of the notion of artistic genius. Continuing in this comparative vein, Scharfstein examines the mutual influence of European and non-European artists. Then, through a comprehensive evaluation of the world’s major art cultures, he shows how all of these individual traditions are gradually, but haltingly, conjoining into a single current of universal art. Finally, he concludes by looking at the ways empathy and intuition can allow members of one culture to appreciate the art of another. Lucid, learned, and incomparably rich in thought and detail, Art Without Borders is a monumental accomplishment, on par with the artistic achievements Scharfstein writes about so lovingly in its pages.
Author : George A. Corbin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429973055
This introduction to the art of tribal peoples of North America, Africa, and the South Pacific does not briefly cover the hundreds of artistic traditions in these three vast areas but rather studies in depth thirty-six art styles within all three areas using the methods of art history, including stylistic analysis and iconographic interpretation. Emphasis is on the art in cultural context and as a system of visual communication within each tribal area. Where appropriate for a more complete understanding of the art, data from archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, religion, and other humanistic disciplines are included.Among the peoples and cultures whose art is studied are the Haida, Kwakiutl, and Tlingit; the Hohokam and Mongollon, the Anasazi and Hopi; the Dogon and Bamana of Mali; the Asante of Ghana; the Benin, Yoruba, and Ibo of Nigeria; the Fan, the Bamum, and the Kuba of Central Africa; Australian aboriginal and Island New Guinea art; Island Melanesia art; central and eastern Polynesia; Hawaii and the Maori in Marginal Polynesia.The format of the text and selected illustrations is based on seventeen years of teaching African, North American Indian, and South Pacific art to undergraduate and graduate students at Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY), New York University, and Columbia University. The book is intended for art history and anthropology students and the interested lay reader or collector. The detailed notes at the end of the book are for further study, research, and understanding of the tribal art style under discussion.
Author : Frank Starkweather,University of Michigan. Museum of Art
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Art
ISBN : PSU:000009521773
Author : Rosalind Hackett
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826436559
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 work is a comparative study of Africa's visual and performing arts, concentrating on their geographical, material and gendered diversity, and focusing on the relation of these arts to African religion. The author combines ethnographic and art-historical methodology but does not assume any prior knowledge of African art or African religion. The text seeks a greater understanding of the philosophical and religious aspects of African art, thus challenging western perceptions of what is "important" in terms of artistic representation. This approach reveals the transformative capacities and multi-dimensionality of African art. The work also highlights the changes brought about by Christianity, Islam and the newer religious movements in post-colonial Africa.
Author : Howard Morphy,Morgan Perkins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405105620
This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures at different times. Advances a cross-cultural concept of art that moves beyond traditional distinctions between Western and non-Western art. Provides the basis for the appreciation of art of different cultures and times. Enhances readers’ appreciation of the aesthetics of art and of the important role it plays in human society.
