The Bamana (also called Bambara), a powerful ethnic group in West Africa, are part of the Mande culture. The sacred is omnipresent among the Bamana and their artistic tradition is extremely rich and diverse. Indeed, any plastic creation puts into action a complex network of values, anchored in a system of thought and a way of life that only anthropological field research can attempt to approach and study. To put the works in their local context, the book reviews youth initiations and funerals, the functioning of agricultural mutual aid groups and other large initiatory societies reserved for adults, while emphasizing the aesthetic qualities of these works. For these aesthetic qualities are essential criteria of appreciation that the Bamana seek so that their religious or political powers are sublimated in a logic combining formal and conceptual efficiency. Jean-Paul Colleyn, anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, is director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and has also taught at New York University. He is the author-director of some thirty documentary films, several books and numerous articles devoted to anthropology and Mali, where he has been conducting field research since 1972. Author: Jean-Paul Colleyn Editions: Five Continents Color and black and white photographs Status: NEW Language: French Number of pages: 144 Dimensions: 165 x 240 mmBrochetedISBN : 978-88-7439-347-3
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