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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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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Roberts, Allen F., 1945-
Contributor:
Roberts, Mary Nooter.
Armenian, Gassia
Guèye, Ousmane, 1933-
Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.
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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