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Radiance from the Waters - Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art (Paperback, New Ed)
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Radiance from the Waters - Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Yale Publications in the History of Art
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The Sande Society of the Mende people of Sierra Leone is a secret
female regulatory society that both guards and transmits the ideals
of feminine beauty so fundamental to the aesthetic criteria in
Mende culture. In this eloquent and moving book, Sylvia Ardyn Boone
describes the Society, its rituals and organization, and the mask
worn by its members. Her book is an evocative account of Mende life
and philosophy as well as a unique contribution to the study of
African art, one based on African conceptions about the person and
the human body. "This is a beautiful and beautifully written book.
... Boone writes in ways that reveal her evident devotion to Mende
culture."-John Picton, African Affairs "A major contribution to our
ethnographic understanding of Mende culture, and to understanding
the way concepts of women's bodies encode cultural messages about
gender relations."-E. Frances White, Women's Review of Books "A
respectful approach to [the mysteries of the Sande], by an art
historian who has tiptoed where anthropologists feared to tread.
Radiance from the Waters deserves to be read. ... It provides
something more interesting than esoteric knowledge: an extended
meditation on notions of beauty and decorum and the way in which
these can be translated simultaneously into art and ... advancement
for women."-John Ryle, London Review of Books "The first text to
illuminate the power of the feminine aesthetic in West African
art."-Ms.
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