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The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior : An
Autobiography
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Tepilit Ole Saitoti
An excellent resource for learning about true Maasai culture I am a high
school social studies teacher and I am currently teaching a course on world
cultures. For the course I have decided to teach about the Maasai culture. I
found the book to be an outstanding resource that depicts what true Maasai
culture really is. T (Brad Klitzke from Wisconsin, USA , October 1,
1998) |
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Maasai (Hardcover) : by Tepilit Ole
Saitoti, Carol Beckwith
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
This is a (not surprisingly)
beautiful and very accurate portrayal of Maasai life. It was written by Teplit
Ole Saitoti, himself a Maasai straddling a modern lifestyle, with that of an
elder in his home village. Carol Beckwith is one of the most sensitive and
talented "human anthropology" photographers the world has ever known. She gets
photos no one else can, by living the villagers' lifestyles. The result of the
collaboration is the view of Maasai life from within. (Reviewer: A
reader) |
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The Africans
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by David Lamb
An
Excellent Book This book is full of information about The African. The writing
is superb and the reader is brought into the everyday lives of these people.
Africa is a vast wasteland. Maybe things will change, but this book allows one
to see why it probably won't. A reader from Colorado , May 6,
1999 |
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African
Ceremonies
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
This text brings together a
decade of travel and research, in a two-volume exploration of African rites and
rituals, including baby namings, initiations and weddings - In addition to the
more than 800 arresting color photographs. |
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Faces of Africa
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Carol Beckwith, Angela
Fisher
This striking coffee table study offers rare visages of
Africa—that vast continent most often examined only through news reports
of insurrection, plague and famine. Rather than view African cultures as an
indistinguishable whole, seasoned photographers Beckwith and Fisher carefully
focus on the varied life journeys and rituals of the peoples they have
encountered over three decades of travel in 36 countries. |
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African Elegance
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Ettagale Blauer
"African Elegance" delves into the ways in which such traditional objects
as masks, jewelry, and wooden vessels are used in contemporary African society.
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Dogon : Africa's People of the
Cliffs (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Stephenie Hollyman
(Photographer), Walter E. A. Van Beek
In Mali, the Dogon people still live a
traditional existence. This photographic portrait shows a tightly knit,
co-operative society engaging in daily activities and sacred rituals: planting
and harvesting crops, creating crafts, and performing varied religious
ceremonies. |
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Once Upon a Time in Africa: Stories of Wisdom and
Joy
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by by Joseph G. Healey
This rich collection of nearly a hundred stories from every part of
Africa—legends and folktales, myths and parables, poems, prayers and
proverbs—probes deeply into the heart, the mystery of being, and our
relationships with God and one another. |
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Africa Counts : Number and Pattern in African
Culture
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Claudia Zaslavsky
This fascinating study of mathematical thinking among Saharan African
peoples covers counting in words and in gestures; measuring time, distance,
weight, and other quantities; number systems; patterns in music, poetry, art,
and architecture; number magic and taboos, and much more. African games such as
mankala and elaborate versions of tic-tac-toe show how complex this thinking
can be. |
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The Sahara and Its People
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Simon Scoones
Explores the environment and lifestyles found in the vast and numerous regions
of the Sahara. |
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Imazighen : The Vanishing Traditions of Berber
Women
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Margaret Courtney-Clarke,
Margaret Courtney-Clark, Geraldine Brooks (Contributor)
Margaret
Courtney-Clarke turns her sensitive eye on women whose lives have seldom been
observed. Her photos explore the remarkable arts and rapidly changing way of
life of the Berber women of North Africa. 230 full-color photos |
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The Forest People
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Colin M. Turnbull, Collin
Turnbull
the author's experiences while living with the BaMbuti
Pygmies, not as a clinical observer, but as their friend learning their customs
and sharing their daily life. |
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African Arts & Culture
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Jacqueline Chanda
Celebrate the diversity and beauty of cultures in sub-Saharan Africa
through a study of their art. Examine the traditional role of art in all facets
of life -- the rites of passage, religious rituals, farming and daily
existence. Conveying political, social, and economic themes, these works of art
are visual proof of the cultural distinctiveness of the different African
peoples. |
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African Culture the Rhythms of Unity
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Molefi K. Asante
(Editor), Kariamu Welsh Asante (Editor)
Africa, according to the
contributors to this anthology, is "one cultural river with numerous
tributaries articulated by their specific responses to history and the
environment." They concentrate on the similarities in behavior, perceptions,
and technologies of African culture that tie those tributaries
together |
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Passages: Photographs in Africa
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Carol Beckwith, Angela
Fisher
A stunning collection of photographs taken throughout Africa,
which document the rich and varied ways of life that have sustained millions of
people for so many generations. These pictures of costumes, ceremonies and
rites of passage preserve these images for the future. |
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Nomads of Niger
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Carol Beckwith, Angela
Fisher
A photographic celebration of the nomadic Wodaabe of Niger with
a narrative that follows a herdsman and his family and kinsmen through one
year's journey in parched, sub-Saharan Africa. This volume documents their
life, culture, traditions and celebrations. |
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African Masks: The Barbier-Mueller Collection
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Iris Hahner-Herzog,
Maria Kecskesi, Lazlo Vajda
This volume presents nearly 250 of the
finest African masks from the Barbier-Mueller Collection. The book includes 100
colour plates accompanied by in-depth descriptions, as well as numerous
black-and-white photographs of the masks as they are used in religious and
secular celebrations. |
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Africa: The Art of a Continent
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Tom Phillips (Editor),
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Ranging from the oldest known
human artifact, circa 1.6 million BC, to pieces made within living memory, the
objects collected in this volume reflect a continent of enormous cultural and
historical scope. |
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Africa Adorned
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Angela Fisher
Angela Fisher spent seven years criss-crossing Africa, seeking out
traditional forms and styles of jewelry and body adornment. The metal crafting,
artistic modes and affectations of traditional piercings are stunning. The more
extreme examples of African body art are already missing: cutting and/or
scarring, limb binding (neck/arms/legs) and lip stretching are lost arts these
days. |
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African Ark
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Carol Beckwith, Angela
Fisher
Beckwith and Fisher's visually stunning pictorials of African
cultures (they have worked separately on earlier books about the Masai and
Fulani) combine beautiful photos of people and objects with easy-to-read
explanatory texts sprinkled with charming line drawings. |
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The Tribal Arts of Africa
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Jean-Baptiste Bacquart
This work displays and defines the fruits of thousands of years of
black African creative endeavour. All the objects included were made by
Africans for their own use, spanning a period from the beginning of the first
millennium to the early 20th century, before the commercial production of art
aimed at the tourist trade. |
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Masks of Black Africa (African Art Art of
Illustration)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Ladislas Segy
This work displays and defines the fruits of thousands of years of black
African creative endeavour. All the objects included were made by Africans for
their own use, spanning a period from the beginning of the first millennium to
the early 20th century, before the commercial production of art aimed at the
tourist trade. |
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Black Africa - Masks Sculpture Jewelry
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Laure Meyer
This
text illustrates the masks, pottery, sculpture, bronze, ivory, statues of
ancestors, reliquaries and jewellery of Africa, from both the aesthetic and
ethnological viewpoint. |
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The Last of the Nuba
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Leni Riefenstahl
The Nuba are a beautiful people, and Riefenstahl's talents are up to the
task of capturing it. Some pictures are black-and-white, but they are mostly
color reproductions with a slight golden hue. They have a very gritty feel to
them, which is excellent for depicting a group of men whose lives often revolve
around wrestling; there are many shots of the wrestlers in action. |
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Kingdoms of
the Yoruba (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Robert Sydney Smith
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The Religion
of the Yorubas (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) -Europe
by J. Olumide Lucas
A
comprehensive study of Yoruba, including a survey of the major Orishas, the
deified spirits of ancestors and other spirits, the minor Orishas, details of
priesthood and worship, the Yoruba conception of human beings, magic in
Yorubaland, and the survival of hieroglyphics, emblems and other symbols.
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African Textiles
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by John Gillow
Generously sized and beautifully illustrated, African Textiles is an
authoritative survey of textile arts - unique and collectible rugs, tapestries,
garments, and much more - from across the continent. |
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African Forms : The Traditional Design and Function of
Objects
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Marc Ginzberg
Traditional African crafts including household objects, weapons and
jewellry are presented in such a way that will appeal to designers and
decorators and to craft hobbyists who have interest in African traditions and
cultures. |
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History of Art in Africa
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
A groundbreaking work, this is
the first book to cover the arts of the entire continent of Africa, including
Egypt, and to survey the art history, rather than the cultural traditions, of
African peoples. The authors' unique synthesis of up-to-date research on
African arts of many periods and geographic areas has resulted in a major
contribution to the literature of art history. |
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African Music : A People's Art
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Francis Bebey, Josephine
Bennett (Translator)
Surveys the forms, musicians, and instruments of
traditional African music, explaining its importance to individual and
community in African societies. |
