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Asen, Ancestors, and Vodun - Tracing Change in African Art (Hardcover)
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Asen, Ancestors, and Vodun - Tracing Change in African Art (Hardcover)
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Asen, metal sculptures of southern Benin, West Africa, are created
to honor the dead and are meant to encourage interaction between
visible and spiritual worlds in ancestral rites associated with the
belief system known as vodun. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the
former Kingdom of Dahomey, Bay traces more than 150 years of
transformations in the manufacture and symbolic meanings of asen
against the backdrop of a slave-raiding monarchy, domination by
French colonialism, and postcolonial political and social change.
Bay expertly reads evidence of the area's turbulent history through
analysis of asen motifs as she describes the diverse influences
affecting the process of asen production from the point of their
probable invention to their current decline in use. Paradoxically,
asen represent a sacred African art form, yet are created using
European materials and technologies and are embellished with
figures drawn from tourist production. Bay's meticulously
researched artistic and historical study is a fascinating
exploration of creativity and change within Benin's culture.
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