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Anyone who has any interest in traditional West African society should read this book. McNaughton discusses the roles, image and social context of the blacksmiths of the Mande peoples of West Africa.
Anyone who has any interest in traditional West African society should read this book. Blacksmiths are not simply artisans, they are skilled manipulators of supernatural power (called nyama in Bambara. As such they are considered in the same vein as jeliw (bards, praise-singers) and sorcerors. They are also woodworkers, potters, circumcisers, and workers of magic
Home Browse Books Book details, The Mande Blacksmiths . This art, along with the other things they do, gives smiths important roles in everyone else’s professional, social, and spiritual lives.
Home Browse Books Book details, The Mande Blacksmiths: Knowledge, Power, and Art. The Mande Blacksmiths: Knowledge, Power, and Art in West Africa. By Patrick R. McNaughton. Blacksmiths in sub-Saharan Africa occupy confusing social spaces, as if they lived in two conflicting dimensions. They are at once glorified and shunned, feared and despised, afforded special privileges and bounded by special interdictions. This art, along with the other things they do, gives smiths important roles in everyone else’s professional, social, and spiritual lives, thereby putting them in a surprisingly prominent position, given their enigmatic status.
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Choice The Mande Blacksmith is an important book. ISBN13:9780253207982.
McNaughton boldly grapples with the thorniest issues related to his subject and articulates them with clarity and precision.
critical reappraisal, innovative inquiry, and fresh observation. make this book an invaluable fund of new material on Mande societies.
The Mande Blacksmith is an important book. McNaughton boldly grapples with the thorniest issues related to hi. . McNaughton's Mande Blacksmiths is undeniably the most profound study of African artists yet published. McNaughton boldly grapples with the thorniest issues related to his subject and articulates them with clarity and precision. -American Anthropologist.
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Knowledge, Power, and Art in West Africa (Traditional Arts of Africa). Published February 1993 by Indiana University Press.
"... finely crafted scholarship. Elegant and graceful, yet packed with knowledge and information, it embodies the aesthetic qualities which it describes and explores." â?American Ethnologist
"The text is detailed and informative, and enjoyable reading... " â?Choice
"The Mande Blacksmith is an important book... sensitive, sympathetic, multifaceted, and thorough... " â?African Arts
"McNaughton's Mande Blacksmiths is undeniably the most profound study of African artists yet published." â?Ethnoarts
"... penetrating... McNaughton boldly grapples with the thorniest issues related to his subject and articulates them with clarity and precision." â?International Journal of African Historical Studies
"... a work in the best tradition of ethnographic research.... critical reappraisal, innovative inquiry, and fresh observation... make this book an invaluable fund of new material on Mande societies... " â?American Anthropologist
"McNaughton... provides an important interpretation of these artists' conceptual place as members of a complex culture." â?Religious Studies Review
Examining the artistic, technological, social, and spiritual dimensions of Mande blacksmiths, who are the sculptors of their society, McNaughton defines these artists' conceptual place as extraordinary members of a complex culture.
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