Author: Bill V. Mullen
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: orientalism, afro
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-11-15
List price: $23.50
ISBN-10: 0816637490
ISBN-13: 9780816637492
Author:
Publisher: Pallas
Keywords: construã§ã£o, identidade, descendente, afro
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2000
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8534702314
ISBN-13: 9788534702317
Author: Bernard W. Bell
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: tradition, novel, american, afro
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1989-06
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0870236881
ISBN-13: 9780870236884
Author: Takashi Okazaki
Publisher: Tor/Seven Seas
Keywords: volume, samurai, afro
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-02-03
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0765322390
ISBN-13: 9780765322395
Author: Miguel Barnet
Publisher: Markus Wiener Pub
Keywords: religions, cuban, afro
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2001-08
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1558762558
ISBN-13: 9781558762558
African cults and religions enrich all aspects of Cuba’s social, culturural and everyday life, and encompass all ethnic and social groups. Politics, art, and civil events such as weddings, funerals, festivals and carnivals all possess distinctly Afro-Cuban characteristics. Miguel Barnet provides a concise guide to the various traditions and branches of Afro-Cuban religions. He distinguishes between the two most important cult forms-- the Regla de Ocha (Santeria), which promotes worship of the Oshira (gods), and the traditional oracles that originated in the old Yoruba city of Ile-Ife´,
Author: William R. Ferris
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: crafts, art, folk, american, afro
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2009-07-30
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1604733918
ISBN-13: 9781604733914
This omnibus volume offers a unique look at a fascinating and evocative strain of art that originated chiefly in the rural American South and in the black cultural centers as blacks migrated across the continent.Pictorial quilts, sculpture and carvings, basketry, pottery, forged metal, musical instruments, and dwellings---these are among the forms that express this appealingly quaint yet powerful presence in American art and African folk heritage from which this wonderful art springs.Celebrating its African folk roots and the individual artists whose lives are so closely intertwined with their
Authors:R. Bowen, U. Jux,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: view, kinematic, geology, arabian, afro
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 1987-04-30
List price: $261.00
ISBN-10: 0412297000
ISBN-13: 9780412297007
This book should be of interest to postgraduate and professional earth scientists.
