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| Guro: Masks, Performances and Master Carvers in Ivory Coast
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Eberhard Fischer.
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| Publisher: Prestel. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9783791339412. Daedalus Item Code: 22815 |
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| The Guro people of Africas Ivory Coast are renowned for their rich mask and sculpture traditions, creating objects of joyful and sublime beauty for a variety of social and spiritual ceremonies. Art ... (Read More)
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| In the Shadow of the Banyan
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Vaddey Ratner.
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| Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781451657715. Daedalus Item Code: 38721 |
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| (2013 PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist and a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice) For seven-year-old Raami, the end of childhood begins when her father comes home in the early ... (Read More)
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| Ivory's Ghosts: The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants
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John Frederick Walker.
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| Publisher: Atlantic Monthly/QPB. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781615233991. Daedalus Item Code: 23473 |
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| Long before gold and gems were known and coveted, humans have desired ivory tusks, the "jewels of the elephant," for their beauty, rarity, and ability to be finely carved. The author who championed ... (Read More)
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| Life and Afterlife in Benin
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Alex Van Gelder, ed.
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| Publisher: Phaidon. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780714845135. Daedalus Item Code: 12411 |
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| It is a commonly held belief in many non-Western cultures that a person's soul lives on, as if trapped, within a photograph. In the West African country of Benin, with its rich spiritual traditions ... (Read More)
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| The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief
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V.S. Naipaul.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307270733. Daedalus Item Code: 31060 |
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| Like the Nobel Prize winner's other "travel" books, The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: V.S. Naipaul estimates the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, ... (Read More)
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| The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey
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Adam Hochschild.
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| Publisher: Mariner. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780618758258. Daedalus Item Code: 03459 |
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| A finalist for both the National Book Award (for Bury the Chains) and the National Book Critics Circle Award (for King Leopold's Ghost), Adam Hochschild first gave us this snapshot of ... (Read More)
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| The Pacific Islands, Africa, and the Americas
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Douglas Newton, intro.
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| Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780300119411. Daedalus Item Code: 21936 |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collections of art objects from the Pacific Islands and from precolonial Africa and the Americas are represented here in 118 striking examples. They are presented in ... (Read More)
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| A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa
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Dominique Lapierre.
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| Publisher: DaCapo. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780306818820. Daedalus Item Code: 21889 |
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| In 1652 a group of Dutch Calvinist farmers landed on the southernmost tip of Africa with a mandate from the Dutch India Company simply to grow vegetables and supply ships rounding the cape. The ... (Read More)
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| River in the Desert: A Modern Traveller in Ancient Egypt
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Paul William Roberts.
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| Publisher: Raincoast. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781551929637. Daedalus Item Code: 21163 |
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| Egypt is as old as history itself, home to some of the world's greatest treasures, a pantheon of gods and kings, and the roots of the civilized world. Today it is the political and cultural heart of ... (Read More)
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| Robin Rhode: Walk Off
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Stephanie Rosenthal, ed.
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| Publisher: Hatje Cantz. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9783775720694. Daedalus Item Code: 13324 |
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| The work of artist Robin Rhode is attracting increasing interest in Europe, the United States, and Asia as well as his native South Africa. Rhode's themes are inspired by the culture and everyday ... (Read More)
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| Rock Art in Africa: Mythology and Legend
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Jean-Loic Le Quellec.
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| Publisher: Flammarion. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9782080304445. Daedalus Item Code: 32442 |
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| The rich variety of paintings and engravings discovered in African caves holds clues to understanding the history of humankind. Illustrated with more than 80 color and black and white reproductions, ... (Read More)
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