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Hardcover Mbari: Art and the Life Among the Owerri Igbo Book

ISBN: 0253303974

ISBN13: 9780253303974

Mbari: Art and the Life Among the Owerri Igbo

One of the most fascinating artistic phenomena in tropical Africa, mbari houses are little known outside Igboland. Art historian Herbert M. Cole has drawn from his extensive research in eastern Nigeria to produce the first book-length study of this unusual art form. Cole describes the building of a mbari mud house to honor the gods, a process rich in tradition and ritual, marked by body painting, drumming, dancing, singing, and chanting. The ecology,...

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