October 13, 2003 - Guinee Net: Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention by Sierra Leone RPCV Frederick Lamp
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Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention by Sierra Leone RPCV Frederick Lamp



Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention by Sierra Leone RPCV Frederick Lamp

Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention

New York. Museum of African Art & Prestel Verlag. 1996. 267 p.

Contents

* Preface and Acknowledgments: Grace C. Stanislaus & Simon Ottenberg

* Acknowledgments: Frederick Lamp

* Foreword: Djibril Tamsir Niane

* Preface: Frederick Lamp

* Lenders to the Exhibition

* Photos

* Chapter I

Introduction: Authority and the Creation of a Narrative on the Baga

* Chapter II

The Coastal Matrix: Early Settlement before the French

* Chapter III

Ethnohistory: The Legacy of the Fouta Diallon

* Chapter IV

Masculine and Feminine Clans and Their Patron Spirits

* Chapter V

The Welfare of the Clan and the Invention of God

* Chapter VI

The Creation of Status: The Age Grades

* Chapter VII

Spirits of the Composite Beast: The justification of Disparate Worlds

* Chapter VIII

Foundations of a New Society: The Construction and Deconstruction of Beauty, and Goodness

* Chapter IX

The Colonial Watershed: Social Conflict and Resolution under the French Order

* Chapter X

Spirits of Defiance and Reinvention

* Chapter XI

The Islamic Watershed: A Culture Held in Reserve, 1955-1985

* Chapter XII

The Present Dilemma: Age Grades and the Valuation of Heritage

* Glossary

* Bibliography



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