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  title info:
    title: Python spirit on the Baga Coast
    sub title: a scientific and art historical investigation
  name:
    name part: Lamp, Frederick
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: it
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 309 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, charts ; 29 cm
  abstract: Python Spirit on the Baga Coast is a multi-vocal, inter-disciplinary examination of Baga culture and specifically the performance of the Serpent masquerade within that culture. It is also the most extensive research on the relationship between ethnozoology and art and ritual in Africa. This study of the wooden Serpent figures/headdresses of the Baga people of Guinea is a collaboration by the author, as an art historian, with many contributions from diverse perspectives, including scientists preeminent in their fields: Robert J. Koestler, Roy Sieber, Dennis William Stevenson, Mark T. Wypyski, and Peter J. Zanzucchi. The book is a thorough exploration of the ethnological and art historical evidence for the Serpent masquerade among the Baga of Guinea, bearing an immense wooden serpent figure on top of the head representing a python. Never witnessed or photographed by outsiders, it disappeared in the 1950s along with most ritual performance after an Islamic jihad instated strict prohibitions against indigenous religions. The ritual context is followed by an in-depth analysis of the Serpent masquerade figures now in collections, while the final sections present scientific examinations concerning one particular Serpent figure.--Back cover.
  note: by Frederick John Lamp ; with contributions by A. Elena Charola, Robert J. Koestler, Francine N'Diaye, Douglas Newton, Michael Oliver, Donna Page and Leonard Kahan, Roy Sieber, Dennis William Stevenson, Thomas G.B. Wheelock, Mark T. Wypyski, Peter J. Zanzucchi.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-gv---
  subject:
    topic: Baga (African people)
    geographic: Guinea
    topic: Rites and ceremonies
  subject:
    topic: Baga (African people)
    geographic: Guinea
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: Pythons
    topic: Religious aspects
    topic: Islam
  subject:
    topic: Serpents
    topic: Mythology
    geographic: Guinea
  subject:
    topic: Serpents
    topic: Mythologie
    geographic: Guinée
  classification: NX589.6.G8 L36 2023
  classification: 305.896718
  identifier: 9791254600443
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: VRV
    record creation date: 240116
    record change date: 20250318223421.6
    record identifier: in00005466195
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng