Inscribing The Mask
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Inscribing The Mask
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Author : Laurel Birch de Aguilar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Inscribing The Mask written by Laurel Birch de Aguilar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Anthropology categories.
Inscribing The Mask
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language : en
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Release Date : 1996
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Inscribing The Masks
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Author : Laurel Birch de Aguilar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Inscribing The Masks written by Laurel Birch de Aguilar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Chewa (African people) categories.
This thesis presents an interpretation of nyau masks of the Chewa people in the central region of Malawi. Theoretically, ethnography in the thesis is informed by text interpretation as in the writings of Paul Ricoeur (1979). Texts in the thesis include the inscription of a performance, narratives of ritual events, oral discourse, and the masks themselves. Masks as texts include form, color, imagery, portraiture, construction and materials used, naming, roles, and movement; and the discourse about these. In the thesis masks are inscribed in their various roles as they are performed in funerals, initiations into the nyau society, and funeral remembrance dances. Each Chapter develops one context of masks and masking, ending with an interpretation of that context. Each interpretation builds upon the interpretations of others from one Chapter to the next, culminating in an overall interpretation of Chewa masks and masking in the final conclusion. This methodology is further focused by one recurring theme of masks; life, death and a sense of rebirth, in reference to the work of Bloch and Parry (1982) and others. Seven Chapters elaborate central ideas about the masks and the nyau masking society. These ideas include: performance and the masked event; the mask materials, mask-makers and re-creation of mask identity; the masks in relation to one another and in relation to the community; masks from historical experience; values and hierarchy of masks; ritual roles in masking; and a construction of nyau cosmology which is embodied in masks, particularly Kasivamaliro. The thesis attempts to demonstrate that Chewa masks, with all the inherent conflicting, diverse and differing local understandings presented in each context, also presents a totality; an interpretation which incorporates all of these contexts into a larger text. This wholeness is shown to be construed from the myriad details which make up masking, accounting for change and adaptation while asserting a continuity in the central theme of death and rebirth.
Masks And Masking
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Author : Gary Edson
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-07-11
Masks And Masking written by Gary Edson and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-11 with Art categories.
For at least 20,000 years, masking has been a mark of cultural evolution and an indication of magical-religious sophistication in society. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the mask as a powerful cultural phenomenon--a means by which human groupings attempted to communicate their dignity and sense of purpose, as well as establish a continuum between the natural and supernatural worlds. It addresses the distinctive environments within which masks flourished, and analyzes the mask as a manifestation of art, ethnology and anthropology.
Inscribing Meaning
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Author : Sarah Adams
language : en
Publisher: 5Continents
Release Date : 2007
Inscribing Meaning written by Sarah Adams and has been published by 5Continents this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art categories.
Reveals Africa's contributions to the history of writing and inscription system worldwide
Visual Plague
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Author : Christos Lynteris
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2022-10-25
Visual Plague written by Christos Lynteris and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-25 with Medical categories.
How epidemic photography during a global pandemic of bubonic plague contributed to the development of modern epidemiology and our concept of the “pandemic.” In Visual Plague, Christos Lynteris examines the emergence of epidemic photography during the third plague pandemic (1894–1959), a global pandemic of bubonic plague that led to over twelve million deaths. Unlike medical photography, epidemic photography was not exclusively, or even primarily, concerned with exposing the patient’s body or medical examinations and operations. Instead, it played a key role in reconceptualizing infectious diseases by visualizing the “pandemic” as a new concept and structure of experience—one that frames and responds to the smallest local outbreak of an infectious disease as an event of global importance and consequence. As the third plague pandemic struck more and more countries, the international circulation of plague photographs in the press generated an unprecedented spectacle of imminent global threat. Nothing contributed to this sense of global interconnectedness, anticipation, and fear more than photography. Exploring the impact of epidemic photography at the time of its emergence, Lynteris highlights its entanglement with colonial politics, epistemologies, and aesthetics, as well as with major shifts in epidemiological thinking and public health practice. He explores the characteristics, uses, and impact of epidemic photography and how it differs from the general corpus of medical photography. The new photography was used not simply to visualize or illustrate a pandemic, but to articulate, respond to, and unsettle key questions of epidemiology and epidemic control, as well as to foster the notion of the “pandemic,” which continues to affect our lives today.
A Host Of Devils
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Author : Zachary Kingdon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-05
A Host Of Devils written by Zachary Kingdon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Social Science categories.
A Host of Devils provides an in-depth account of the background, origin and development of the spirit figure sculptures which emerged during colonial times among the Makonde people of Mozambique. The creation of such works is shown to connect with a regional system of knowledge and practice, within which spirits function as a format for expression. The book describes the ways in which the sculpture emerged, as well as the author's experience of learning how to carve.
A History Of Theatre In Africa
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Author : Martin Banham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-05-13
A History Of Theatre In Africa written by Martin Banham and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-13 with Drama categories.
This book aims to offer a broad history of theatre in Africa. The roots of African theatre are ancient and complex and lie in areas of community festival, seasonal rhythm and religious ritual, as well as in the work of popular entertainers and storytellers. Since the 1950s, in a movement that has paralleled the political emancipation of so much of the continent, there has also grown a theatre that comments back from the colonized world to the world of the colonists and explores its own cultural, political and linguistic identity. A History of Theatre in Africa offers a comprehensive, yet accessible, account of this long and varied chronicle, written by a team of scholars in the field. Chapters include an examination of the concepts of 'history' and 'theatre'; North Africa; Francophone theatre; Anglophone West Africa; East Africa; Southern Africa; Lusophone African theatre; Mauritius and Reunion; and the African diaspora.
Mask
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Author : Sharrona Pearl
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2024-05-30
Mask written by Sharrona Pearl and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. From the theater mask and masquerade to the masked criminal and the rise of facial recognition software, masks have long performed as an instrument for the protection and concealment of identity. Even as they conceal and protect, masks – as faces – are an extension of the self. At the same time, they are a part of material culture: what are masks made of? What traces do they leave behind? Acknowledging that that mask-wearing has become increasingly weaponized and politicized, Sharrona Pearl looks at the politics of the mask, exploring how identity itself is read on this object. By exploring who we do (and do not) seek to protect through different forms of masking, Sharrona Pearl's long history of masks helps us to better understand what it is we value. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
A Collector S Guide To Masks
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Author : Timothy Teuten
language : en
Publisher: Booksales
Release Date : 1990
A Collector S Guide To Masks written by Timothy Teuten and has been published by Booksales this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Art categories.
Offers anthropological as well as practical information on traditional masks from Africa, the Pacific, the Americas, and Europe.