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A saint in the city : Sufi arts of urban Senegal / Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts ; with Gassia Armenian and Ousmane Gueye.
Van Pelt Library BP195.M66 R66 2003
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Fine Arts Library BP195.M66 R66 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roberts, Allen F., 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Murīdīyah.
- Bāmbā, Aḥmadū, 1852-1927.
- Bāmbā, Aḥmadū.
- Islam and art.
- Art, Senegalese.
- Physical Description:
- 284 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 31 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, Calif. : UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, [2003]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Aura and Icon in Contemporary Senegal 21
- Chapter 1 Mystical Reproductions: Photography and the Authentic Simulacrum 43
- Chapter 2 Portraits of the Hidden Side: Sanctifying Domestic Space 69
- Chapter 3 Stations in a Life: Glass Paintings as Visual Hagiography 85
- Chapter 4 Apostles of Hard Work: Sheikh Ibra Fall and the Baye Fall Movement 109
- Chapter 5 "Walls That Speak": Public Art and Postcolonial Memory 123
- Chapter 6 Mouride Women: In the Mirror of the Mother 151
- Chapter 7 Healing Words: Mouride Arts of Writing and Inscription 165
- Chapter 8 Contemporary Art and a "Mouride Way of Reasoning" 191
- Chapter 9 An Architecture of the Word 213
- Chapter 10 Pilgrimage and Exile, Transcendence and Prosperity 231.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-272) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0930741935
- OCLC:
- 51275266
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