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Frederick Lamp
Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention

New York. Museum of African Art & Prestel Verlag. 1996. 267 p.

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments: Grace C. Stanislaus & Simon Ottenberg
Acknowledgments: Frederick Lamp
Foreword: Djibril Tamsir Niane
Preface: Frederick Lamp
Lenders to the Exhibition
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• Chapter I. — Introduction: Authority and the Creation of a Narrative on the Baga
• Chapter II. — The Coastal Matrix: Early Settlement before the French
• Chapter III. — Ethnohistory: The Legacy of the Fouta Diallon
• Chapter IV. — Masculine and Feminine Clans and Their Patron Spirits
• Chapter V. — The Welfare of the Clan and the Invention of God
• Chapter VI. — The Creation of Status: The Age Grades
• Chapter VII. — Spirits of the Composite Beast: The justification of Disparate Worlds
• Chapter VIII. — Foundations of a New Society: The Construction and Deconstruction of Beauty, and Goodness
• Chapter IX. — The Colonial Watershed: Social Conflict and Resolution under the French Order
• Chapter X. — Spirits of Defiance and Reinvention
• Chapter XI. — The Islamic Watershed: A Culture Held in Reserve, 1955-1985
• Chapter XII. — The Present Dilemma: Age Grades and the Valuation of Heritage

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