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Asen, ancestors, and vodun : tracing change in African art

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Asen, ancestors, and vodun : tracing change in African art / Edna G. Bay.

Author

Bay, Edna G.

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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.

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xiv, 186 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-182) and index.

Contents

A note on orthography -- Introduction -- Vodun, sacrifice, and the sinuka -- The invention of ancestral asen -- The Hountondji family of Smiths and Dahomean royal patronage -- From tourist to sacred: colonial culture and the creation of traditions -- Messages of power: asen tableau to the early twentieth century -- Mixed messages and migrating meanings -- Death and the culture wars: the 1990s.

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