African Art: Its Background and Traditions

Dust Jacket Condition: As New. xii, 285 pp, list of 24 color plates and 120 b&w illustrations, foreword, introduction, THE AFRICAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT: Bushmen; Negritos or Pygmies; Negros, Bantu; Hamitic Peoples; Nilo-Hamites and Nilotes. MATERIAL ASPECTS OF ART: Art in Its Relationship to Culture. SOCIAL LIFE: SOCIAL POLITICAL ASPECT: Age-Groups, Secret Societies, Legal Power, Rank and State Procedures; Decentralized Political Power; Centralized Political Power. ECONOMICS. RELIGION AND THE SUPERNATURAL. INTELLECTUAL COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY: Play. MODERN DEVELOPMENTS. CATALOGUE. APPENDIX: acknowledgments, bibliography, Map I: African Tribes, Map II: African States, index. Text by Rene S. Wassing. Photographs by Hans Hinz. Translated by Diana Imber. Reprint n.d. [1990s?]. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Size: 4to.