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The Bamana (or Bambara) are members of the Mande culture, a large and powerful group of peoples in western Africa. The artistic tradition of the Bamana is rich, encompassing pottery, sculpture, beautiful bokolanfini cloth, and wrought-iron figures crafted by blacksmiths. They also have an extensive tradition of masks, which are used as a form of social control and community education.

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New: English text. Milano, 2009; paperback, pp. 137, 15 b/w ill., 64 col. ill., cm 28x32, 5. (Visions of Africa). The aesthetic qualities of the works produced by the Bamana of Mali (also known as the Bambara) have long attracted the attention of the West. The artistic creation brings into play a network of complex values that are sometimes accessible only to the initiated, but which are always deeply rooted in a system of thought and a way of life that only anthropological research in the field can attempt to approach and study. To put the works in their local context, the book looks at the initiations of young people and at funerals: fundamental rites of passage which cannot be avoided. Outstanding among them is that of the Ntomo, the society of young boys who have not yet been circumcised, and the ones linked to the Kore and the Jo, societies overseeing the passage to adulthood. Then the functioning of the agricultural mutual aid groups (ton, démè) and the other great initiatory societies reserved for adults (Komo, Kono, Tyiwara, Namakoro, etc. ) is analysed in its political, economic and judicial dimensions. Jean-Paul Colleyn anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. Head of studies at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He has also taught at New York University. The author and director of thirty documentary films, several books and many articles on anthropological subjects in Mali (where he has been doing fieldwork since 1972) and on visual anthropology.

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This volume focuses on the aesthetic qualities of the masterpieces of Bamana religious art in Mali and resituates them in their social, aesthetic, and cultural context. The emphasis is on pieces used in rites of passage (Ntomo, funerals), or by agricultural cooperatives, and initiation societies (Jo, Komo, Kono, Tyiwara, Namakoro). The pieces are sublime precisely because they stand at the crossroads of religion, art, and politics.

Works included in the book are from the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seattle Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Indiana University Art Museum, Museum for African Art NY, National Museum of African Art (Smithsonian Institution).

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Media: Paperback Book, 137 pages

Language: English

Publisher: 5 Continents (Jun. 30th, 2009)

ISBN-10: 8874393482

ISBN-13: 9788874393480

Dimensions: 6.70 x 9.60 x 0.60 inches

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