Download or read book Royal Art from the Grasslands of Cameroon written by David Reed and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Art of the Cameroon Grasslands written by BETTINA VON. LINTIG and published by 5 Continents Editions. This book was released on 2024-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art of the Cameroon Grasslands unveils the artistic creativity of a region of West Africa through the Weis Collection. With texts by Peter Weis and Bettina von Lintig, and a contribution by Michael Oehrl, the book is a comprehensive overview of Grasslands Art. In contrast to many other African regions, the works of the artists of the ethnic groups that live in the Grasslands are characterized by enormous diversity, dynamism, movement, asymmetry, power, and even unbridled wildness. Other works radiate tranquillity, offering the viewer uncommon visual pleasure and delight. For centuries, kingdoms and rulers in this region competed with each other to create new works of art or perfect inherited styles. These works served cultural, profane, and representational purposes, and they reflected the social and ruling structures of the Grasslands--aspects that the book's essays and descriptions go into in detail. A broad spectrum of objects and their uses are reflected in the Weis Collection. It includes everyday objects, works of folk art, ritual, and cult objects such as magic or commemorative figures, masks, posts, palace doors, representational objects, musical instruments, tobacco pipes, and drinking horns. The introduction presents important aspects of the cultural and artistic development of each object's region of origin, also in the context of European colonization. All are illustrated with numerous field photographs. This is followed by an essay on beaded artworks from the Grasslands, a subject that has been little researched to date. As the Grasslands are embedded in a larger cultural area, objects in the collection from neighboring ethnic groups are also presented, in many cases shedding light on centuries-old connections and artistic exchanges.
Download or read book Cameroon s Western Grassland written by Nol Alembong and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overall aim of this study has been to show that incantations from the Western Grassland region of Cameroon derive their essence from the people’s religious beliefs and practices and that they reveal a perception of the universe as an ordered system, a whole. This whole comprises many structures, from inorganic matter to man, the inanimate, animate, celestial, and spirit worlds – all these reduced to the physical and metaphysical realms of existence. From a purely metaphysical point of view, the structures that constitute the universe form a hierarchy of perfections or degrees of being. The most elementary structure of reality is that of inorganic matter – the lowest level of perfection in the visible universe. Above the level of inorganic matter are the various levels or degrees of life. Life, on whatever level it can be considered, manifests itself as a real and active synthesis, that is, the reduction of diversity to unity. Vegetative life utilises inorganic matter and reduces the diversity of this matter to the unity of an organism. The next level of life – sensory or animal life – utilises in its turn vegetative life. And, finally, the highest level of life – the spiritual or intellectual and volitional life of man – presupposes and utilises a very highly developed form of sensory life. Here, the reduction of diversity to unity reaches its maximum, for in human life the sense-knowledge and sense-affections of purely animal life are transcendently unified in the ideas and value of the spiritual self, linking man to the spirit world.
Download or read book Palaces and compounds in the grasslands of Cameroon written by Wolfgang Lauber (Prof.) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Art of the Cameroon Grasslands Pace Primitive and Ancient Art Splendor and Secrecy January 27 March 10 1979 written by Tamara Northern and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To the Grasslands and Highlands of Inner Cameroon written by Viban Ngo and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Importance of Cowries and Kolanuts in the Western Grasslands of Cameroon written by Andrew Ngai Ngong and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon written by Mark Dike DeLancey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameroon is a land of much promise, but a land of unfulfilled promises. It has the potential to be an economically developed and democratic society but the struggle to live up to its potential has not gone well. Since independence there have been only two presidents of Cameroon; the current one has been in office since 1982. Endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals and substantial forests, and a dynamic population, this is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead, we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management, a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems, and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. To all of this is recently added a serious terrorism problem, Boko Haram, in the north, a separatist movement in the Anglophone west, refugee influxes in the north and east, and bandits from the Central African Republic attacking eastern villages. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Republic of Cameroon.
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Download or read book Splendor and Secrecy written by Tamara Northern and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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