Baga: Visions of Africa Series

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The 18th volume within the a success reference Visions of Africa series, Baga introduces the art and traditions of this small rice-growing community living along the coast of Guinea in West Africa. Their ordinary sculptures, wooden masks, and statues of quite a lot of sizes in addition to wonderful percussion instruments, chiefs’ seats, and other skillfully carved utilitarian objects are presented in very good photographs. The relationships of those works to the culture and traditions of the Baga other people—manifestation of divinities, ancestor worship, rites of passage, secret brotherhoods, and weddings, funerals, and harvesting—is brilliantly investigated by the creator, who also analyzes the influence of colonization and newly introduced religions on more latest practices.
 

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