Guinea is rich, both materially and culturally, with the world's largest bauxite reserves, gold, diamonds and iron ore. It abounds in culture and traditions and has a remarkable, if often turbulent, history. Guinea is also exceptional in that it was the first French colony proudly to declare its independence, in 1958. Thereafter, the country suffered under the tyranny of Sekou Toure. Today, headed for the first time by an elected president, Guineans are trying to put their troubled past behind t...
Those Purple Eyes - Yennefer's Eyes - from The Witcher - Gerald's Love - 6 x 9 Journal
by D M Spencer and Marie Glenn
Crafts and Arts of Living in the Cameroon
by Jocelyne Etienne-Nugue and Harri Peccinotti
African Art and Artefacts in European Collections 1400-1800
by Ezio Bassani
The Messages of Tourist Art (Topics in Contemporary Semiotics, #4)
by Bennetta Jules-Rosette
Tourist art may be a billion dollar business. Nevertheless, such art is despised. What is worse, the "bad" culture is seen as driving out the "good. " Commer- cialization is assumed to destroy traditional arts and crafts, replacing them with junk. The process is seen as demeaning to artists in the traditional societies, who are seduced into a type of whoredom: unfeeling production of false beauty for money. The arts remain problematic for the social sciences. Sociology textbooks treat the arts a...
New Traditions from Nigeria (Smithsonian Series in Archaeological Inquiry)
by Simon Ottenberg
Early Pastoralists of South Western Kenya (Memoirs S., #11)
by Peter Robertshaw
An Engraved Landscape (Society for Libyan Studies Monograph, #11)
by Tertia Barnett
An Engraved Landscape is a contextual analysis of a substantial new corpus of engravings from the Wadi al-Ajal, situated in the Central Saharan region of south west Libya. The wadi is renowned as the heartland of the Garamantian civilization, which emerged from local mobile Pastoral communities in the 1st millennium BC, and dominated trans-Saharan trade and politics for over a thousand years. Extensive archaeological and palaeoenvironmental investigations in recent years have provided detailed i...