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Striking iron : the art of African blacksmiths / edited by Allen F. Roberts, Tom Joyce and Marla C. Berns, with William J. Dewey, Henry J. Drewal, and Candice Goucher ; with essays and contributions by Rowland Abiodun [and 17 others]

Roberts, Allen F., 1945- [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Joyce, Tom, 1956- [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Berns, Marla, 1951- [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Dewey, William Joseph, 1953- [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Drewal, Henry John, 1943- [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Goucher, Candice [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Abiodun, Rowland, 1941- [Kommentarverfasserin/-verfasser]

Fowler Museum at UCLA ; (Los Angeles, California) : 2018.06.03-2018.12.30

National Museum of African Art ; (Washington, DC) : 2019.04.17-2019.10.20

Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac ; (Paris) : 2019.11.19-2020.03.29

Los Angeles, California : Fowler Museum at UCLA, [2019] [© 2019]

510 Seiten : Illustrationen (überwiegend farbig) ; 29 cm x 24 cm

Englisch

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, the Smithsonian Museum's National Museum of African Art, and Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris. - Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-9907626-6-9

2019007323

9780990762669

OCoLC: 1140164317     

unbewegtes Bild | Ausstellungskatalog, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 03.06.2018-30.12.2018, Los Angeles, Calif. | Ausstellungskatalog, National Museum of African Art, 17.04.2019-20.10.2019, Washington, DC | Ausstellungskatalog, Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, 19.11.2019-29.03.2020, Paris

LB 90519      Ähnliche Literatur

NK8287

739.4096

Basisklassifikation: 20.52 (Afrikanische Kunst) ; 15.92 (Afrika südlich der Sahara) <Geschichte> ; 15.15 (Archäologie)

*Subsaharisches Afrika ; Schmiedekunst ; Eisenproduktion ; Ethnologie ; Ausstellungskatalog      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Blacksmiths -- Africa -- Exhibitions ; Artist-blacksmiths -- Africa -- Exhibitions ; Art metal-work -- Africa -- Exhibitions ; Ironwork -- Africa -- Exhibitions

Lingua ferrum: soliloquies of smiths / Tom Joyce -- Heavy metal: iron in the universe / E. C. Krupp -- Ogun, the orisa whose fame is worldwide / Rowland Abiodun -- Introduction / Allen F. Roberts -- The place of iron in African cosmologies / Allen F. Roberts -- Supertransformers: iron smelting and gender / Candice Goucher -- Iron's empowering presence / Henry J. Drewal -- Interleaf A: Gelede mask honoring blacksmiths / Tom Joyce and Henry J. Drewal -- Potency conveyed with a hammer's blow / Tom Joyce -- Interleaf B: Blacksmiths onstage / Tom Joyce -- Precolonial currencies: iron and value, power, and prestige / Allen F. Roberts -- Blades: of hard work and honor / Allen F. Roberts -- Interleaf C: Shona blades for the ancestors / William J. Dewey -- Beauty that bites: creative virtuosity in African throwing knives / Patrick McNaughton -- Interleaf D: For whose eyes were they? Calligraphic blades of Mahdist Sudan / Allen F. Roberts -- Portfolio I: Currencies -- Portfolio II: Blades -- Ages of iron: origins of the blacksmith's art in Africa south of the Sahara / Shadreck Chirikure, William J. Dewey, and Scott MacEachern -- Transforming culture: West and Central African iron archaeology / Scott MacEachern -- Interleaf E: Ancient prestige works from the Upemba region of Central Africa / William J. Dewey --

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Culture as technology: East and Southern African iron archaeology / Shadreck Chirikure and William J. Dewey -- Interleaf F: Forged values: hoes in the archaeology and history of Southern Africa / Shadreck Chirikure -- Blacksmith societies of a Mande world / Patrick McNaughton -- Ogun/Gu's resonance in the Yoruba, Edo, and Fon worlds / Rowland Abiodun and Henry J. Drewal -- Interleaf G: Dancing for Ogun Ondo / Henry J. Drewal -- Interleaf H: Gu's journey to the Louvre / Colleen Kriger -- Interleaf I: Symbols of authority: Igbo Ofo in wood and iron / Philip M. Peek -- Worn and held: forging life's passages in northern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria / Scott MacEachern and Marla C. Berns -- Interleaf J: Personal adornment of Himba women / John Watson -- Forging power and memory in West-Central Africa / Colleen E. Kriger -- Of blacksmiths and kings: a central Bantu world / William J. Dewey and Allen F. Roberts -- Interleaf K: Interformances of a Kongo nail figure / Allen F. Roberts -- Portfolio III: Personal adornment -- Iron on the anvils of change / Candice Goucher -- Interleaf L: "Voyage iron," from Europe to Africa / Colleen E. Kriger -- Interleaf M: Thresholds: Sub-Saharan blacksmiths in Morocco / Henry J. Drewal -- Interleaf N: Forging faith: Ethiopian iron crosses / Raymond Silverman -- Sounding forms / Manuel Jordan -- Interleaf O: Ritual activation with sound: Chamba of the Middle Benue, Nigeria / Marla C. Berns -- Forged in the marketplace: migrant blacksmith identities in Bamako / Isaie Dougnon (translated by Allen F. Roberts) -- Portfolio IV: Bamako market.