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Radiance from the waters : ideals of feminine beauty in Mende art
- Title
- Radiance from the waters : ideals of feminine beauty in Mende art / Sylvia Ardyn Boone ; photographs by Sylvia Ardyn Boone and Rebecca Busselle.
- Author
- Boone, Sylvia Ardyn.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [1986], ©1986.
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- Description
- xxii, 281 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.
- Series Statement
- Yale publications in the history of art ; 34
- Uniform Title
- Yale publications in the history of art ; 34.
- Subject
- Sande Society
- Sande (Société)
- Arts, Mende
- Arts > Sierra Leone
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
- Arts primitifs > Sierra Leone
- Beauté féminine (Esthétique)
- Masques > Afrique
- Arts mendé
- Masques mendé
- Femmes mendé
- Arts
- Kunst
- Schoonheidsideaal
- Mende (volk)
- Vrouwen
- Esthétique > Afrique
- Femmes > Dans l'art
- Beauté féminine (esthétique) > Sierra Leone
- Femmes > Dans l'art > Sierra Leone
- Art Mende (peuple d'Afrique)
- Mendé (peuple d'Afrique)
- Beauté corporelle
- Sierra Leone
- Mende visual arts
- Note
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Yale University, 1979) under title: Sowo art in Sierra Leone.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-270) and index.
- Contents
- Mende history and culture : a brief overview -- The Sande Society -- Kpanguima : the world of beauty that Sande makes -- Physical and metaphysical aspects of Mende feminine beauty -- Sowo : the good made visible.
- ISBN
- 0300035764
- 9780300035766
- 0300048610
- 9780300048612
- LCCN
- 85019077
- 99979398530
- OCLC
- ocm12369976
- 12369976
- SCSB-2453201
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries