The Artfulness Of Death In Africa

Author : John Mack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 1789141230

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The Artfulness of Death in Africa by John Mack Pdf

If weddings are the most lavish events in many parts of the world, in Sub-Saharan Africa, by contrast, it is funerals. Funeral celebrations can be flamboyant occasions, particularly those honoring prominent people. Artworks of many kinds are created to commemorate the dead from mortuary sculptures and extravagant coffins to elaborate headstones, memorials, monuments, and cenotaphs. This book is a unique survey of the artful nature of funerals in Africa. Drawing on a wide range of historical, anthropological, archaeological, art historical, and literary sources, John Mack charts the full range of African funereal art, highlighting examples from across the continent and from ancient times to today. Featuring abundant illustrations--some of which have never been published before--The Artfulness of Death in Africa is essential reading for those interested in African art, culture, society, and history.

Author : Peter Ritner
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Nationalism
ISBN : UOM:39015003970616

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The Death of Africa by Peter Ritner Pdf

Analysis of the situation in Africa today and suggestions for an American policy.

Author : Stephanie Bunn,Victoria Mitchell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781350094048

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The Material Culture of Basketry by Stephanie Bunn,Victoria Mitchell Pdf

The Material Culture of Basketry celebrates basketry as a culturally significant skilled practice and as a theoretically rich discipline which has much to offer contemporary society. While sometimes understudied and underappreciated, it has much in common with mathematics and engineering, art, craft and design, and can also act as a socially beneficial source of skill and care. Contributors show how local knowledge of materials, plants and place are central to the craft. Case studies include the skill in weaverbird nest building (challenging how we perceive learning in craft and nature), an engineer's perspective on twining Peruvian grass bridges, and the local knowledge embodied in Pacific plaited patterns and knots. Photo-essays explore materials and techniques from the point of view of artists, anthropologists and mathematicians, revealing how the structure and skill in basketwork illustrate a significant form of textile technology. Thus, the book argues that the textures, patterns and geometric forms that emerge through basketwork reflect an embodied knowledge which expresses mathematical and engineering comprehension. The therapeutic value of the craft is recognised through a selection of case studies which consider basketry as a healing process for patients with brain injury, mental health problems, and as a memory aid for people living with dementia. This reclaims basketry's significant role in occupational therapy as an agent of recovery and well–being. Finally, basketry's inherently sustainable nature is also considered, demonstrating the continuation of basketry in spite of handwork's general decline and profiling new and recycled materials. Above all the book envisages basketry as an intellectually rewarding means of knowing. It presents the craft as embodying care for skilled making and for the social and natural environments in which it flourishes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art, African
ISBN : OCLC:1434398008

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Death, Ritual, and Art in Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anita J. Glaze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015048744745

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Art and Death in a Senufo Village by Anita J. Glaze Pdf

Author : Chuu Krydz Ikwuemesi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3962030700

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Death and the Creative Instinct by Chuu Krydz Ikwuemesi Pdf

This book looks at mortuary activities and some creative acts associated with them in selected communities in Africa and the diaspora. Besides death narratives and mortuary rites which are vital in maintaining the centralizing myths of communities and groups, parts of the anthology problematize the tensions and conflicts that arise in the mill of postcolonialism and how they are reflected in the politics of dying, death and after-death in some African and diasporan communities. Beyond these concerns, death is seen here as a renegotiation of reality and, therefore, an agency of art and theatre, since art is essentially a re-representation of reality, the same concern that is at the heart of mortuary acts. Perhaps, the strength of the book is in the authors' ability to ask new questions about death and its social symbolism and to provide new insights through critical and groundbreaking perspectives.

Author : David Cronenberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416596134

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Consumed by David Cronenberg Pdf

The story of two journalists whose entanglement in a French philosopher's death becomes a surreal journey into global conspiracy.

Author : Zakes Mda
Publisher : Picador
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374708283

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Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda Pdf

Winner of the M-Net Book Prize Shortlisted for the CNA and Noma Awards In Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda's acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a "professional mourner" in a vast and violent city of the new South Africa. Day after day he attends funerals in the townships, dressed with dignity in a threadbare suit, cape, and battered top hat, to comfort the grieving families of the victims of the city's crime, racial hatred, and crippling poverty. At a Christmas day funeral for a young boy Toloki is reunited with Noria, a woman from his village. Together they help each other to heal the past, and as their story interweaves with those of their acquaintances this elegant short novel provides a magical and painful picture of South Africa today. Ways of Dying was awarded South Africa's prestigious M-Net Book Prize, awarded by the TV channel M-Net to books written in one of South Africa's official languages, and was shortlisted for the Central News Agency (CNA) Award and the Noma Award, an Africa-wide prize founded by Shoichi Noma, onetime president of Kodansha International.

Author : John Mack
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674026934

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The Art of Small Things by John Mack Pdf

This richly illustrated book celebrates the art of the miniature, but also looks beyond it at the many aspects of "small worlds"--in particular, their capacity to evoke responses that far exceed their physical dimensions. Mack explores the talismanic, religious, or magical properties with which miniatures are often imbued. Considering a wide range of objects, he examines the use of the miniature form in various cultural contexts.

Author : Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781551528519

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Between Certain Death and a Possible Future by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Pdf

Every queer person lives with the trauma of AIDS, and this plays out intergenerationally. Usually we hear about two generations—the first, coming of age in the era of gay liberation, and then watching entire circles of friends die of a mysterious illness as the government did nothing to intervene. And now we hear about younger people growing up with effective treatment and prevention available, unable to comprehend the magnitude of the loss. But there is another generation between these two, one that came of age in the midst of the epidemic with the belief that desire intrinsically led to death, and internalized this trauma as part of becoming queer. Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis offers crucial stories from this missing generation in AIDS literature and cultural politics. This wide-ranging collection includes 36 personal essays on the ongoing and persistent impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis in queer lives. Here you will find an expansive range of perspectives on a specific generational story—essays that explore and explode conventional wisdom, while also providing a necessary bridge between experiences. These essays respond, with eloquence and incisiveness, to the question: How do we reckon with the trauma that continues to this day, and imagine a way out?

Author : Zakes Mda
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Black people
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017101374

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Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda Pdf

Ways of Dying tells the story of the eccentric but dignified professional mourner, Toloki. His odyssey takes him from a rural village community to the shabby, vibrant outskirts of a contemporary South African city, where the tenderness that springs up between him and the beautiful and tragic Noria helps them to heal the past. By turns magical, brutal, and funny, this compelling work is a major new contribution to South African writing.

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307477729

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Pdf

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.

Author : Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996-04-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226620859

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Africa Wo/Man Palava by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi Pdf

Ogunyemi uses the novels to trace a Nigerian women's literary tradition that reflects an ideology centered on children and community. Of prime importance is the paradoxical Mammywata figure, the independent, childless mother, who serves as a basis for the postcolonial woman in the novels and in society at large. Ogunyemi tracks this figure through many permutations, from matriarch to writer, her multiple personalities reflecting competing loyalties. This sustained critical study counters prevailing "masculinist" theories of black literature in a powerful narrative of the Nigerian world.

Author : Zakes Mda,Robin Malan,Mncedisi Mashigoane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0195717511

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Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda,Robin Malan,Mncedisi Mashigoane Pdf

Author : Glen David Gold
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781848944107

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Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold Pdf

Charles Carter, dubbed Carter the Great by Houdini himself, was born into privilege but became a magician out of need: only when dazzling an audience can he defeat his fear of loneliness. But in 1920s America the stakes are growing higher, as technology and the cinema challenge the allure of magic and Carter's stunts become increasingly audacious. Until the night President Harding takes part in Carter's act only to die two hours later, and Carter finds himself pursued not only by the Secret Service but by a host of others desperate for the terrible secret they believe Harding confided in him. Seamlessly blending reality and fiction, Gold lays before us a glittering and romantic panorama of our modern world at a point of irrevocable change.