Maternity : mothers and children in the arts of Africa /
On the African continent, images of mothers and children are found wherever the visual arts are, from early rock-art sites in Egypt and the Sahara to the contemporary arts of South Africa. Discovered in a variety of materials, from stone, ivory and metals to beadwork, wood and even paintings, images...
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Antwerp : New Haven, Connecticut :
Mercatorfonds ; Distributed by Yale University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The milk of eternity, the milk of knowledge
- 2. A 7,000-year overview of maternity imagery
- 3. Djenné-Jeno terra cottas, twins and other multiple births in the Inland Niger Delta region (Mali)
- 4. The sculptured children of aspiring mothers
- 5. Prominent mothers : the merging of nature and culture
- 6. The many lives of an archetype : diverse objects, uses, materials, and forms
- 7. Visual proverbs and metaphors among the Akan of Ghana and Ivory Coast
- 8. Kongo mothers : founding aristocrats
- 9. Yoruba mothers : containers of the world's secrets and mysteries
- 10. The mothers of masquerades
- 11. Shifting paradigms : the late 20th-century politics of maternity.