Dogon masks in motion / Polly Richards ; with contributions from Walter van Beek, Anne Doquet & Lassana Cissé.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richards, Polly, author, photographer.

Contributor:

Beek, W. E. A. van, contributor.

Doquet, Anne, contributor.

Cissé, Lassana, contributor.

Picton, John, writer of preface.

Douyon, Denis Amadine, 1958- writer of foreword.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Masks, Dogon--Pictorial works.

Masks, Dogon.

Masks, Dogon--History--Pictorial works.

Dogon (African people)--Mali--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

Dogon (African people).

Dogon (African people)--Mali--Rites and ceremonies--Pictorial works.

Black people--Mali--Pictorial works.

Black people.

Ethnology--Mali.

Ethnology.

Dogon (African people)--Rites and ceremonies.

Dogon (African people)--Social life and customs.

Mali.

Genre:

History

Pictorial works

Physical Description:

422 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Glienicke, Germany : Galda Verlag, 2022.

Language Note:

English, some translation from French.

Contents:

Preface / John Picton

Foreword / Denis Douyon ; translated from French by Jerome Vogel

Acknowledgments / Polly Richards

Introduction / Polly Richards

1. Dogon society and history / Polly Richards

2. Captivating the world / Polly Richards

3. Masks : initiation and authority / Polly Richards

4. Mask dances : emina gòò / Polly Richards

5. 'What's in a mask?' / Polly Richards

6. Masks in the Dogon tourist bubble / Walter van Beek

7. Mask festivals in the twenty-first century / Anne Doquet

8. A renaissance of masking traditions / Lassana Cissé

9. Creative process and aesthetic discourse / Polly Richards

10. Contemporary masks and attitudes to modernity / Polly Richards

11. Masks and change / Polly Richards.

appendix I. Glossary of Dogon terms used

appendix II. Mask glossary.

Notes:

Includes glossaries.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-411), filmography (page 412), and index.

ISBN:

9783962032555

396203255X

OCLC:

1355287741