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Asen, ancestors, and vodun : tracing change in African art / Edna G. Bay.
LIBRA NK8289.6.D3 B388 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bay, Edna G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Altars, Fon--Benin.
- Altars, Fon.
- Ironwork, Fon--Benin.
- Ironwork, Fon.
- Metal sculpture--Benin.
- Metal sculpture.
- Fon (African people)--Religion.
- Fon (African people).
- Ancestor worship--Benin.
- Ancestor worship.
- Benin.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 186 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- A note on orthography
- Introduction
- Vodun, sacrifice, and the sinuka
- The invention of ancestral asen
- The Hountondji family of Smiths and Dahomean royal patronage
- From tourist to sacred: colonial culture and the creation of traditions
- Messages of power: asen tableau to the early twentieth century
- Mixed messages and migrating meanings
- Death and the culture wars: the 1990s.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-182) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252032554
- 0252032551
- OCLC:
- 128237066
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