Marc Felix MWANA HITI Tanzania reference work Zaramo Kwere

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Marc Felix MWANA HITI Tanzania reference work Zaramo Kwere:
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MWANA HITI. LIFE AND ART OF THEMATRILINEAL BANTU OF TANZANIA

by Marc Leo Felix, N. Batuwkisi, B.Tursch, K. Weinrich.

MunchenFred Jahn Verlag 1990. 28 x 22 cm. 505 pages, 481 photographs, 8 drawings, 3figures, 12 maps. Text in english and german. Cloth cover, very slight bump onthe bottom of spine, otherwise perfect condition, in slipcase. Edition limitedto 1,000 copies.

Thefirst treatise on the mwana hiti, the wooden, highly stylized torso of a femalefigure, this important volume accompanied a major 1990 exhibition of mwana hitiand other objects of Tanzanian art at the Fred Jahn Gallery in Munich.Impressively thorough with almost 500 excellent photographs and containingimportant essays and research data on stylistic differences, typology, and theethnography of Zaramo and Kwere peoples of Eastern Tanzania, this study isanother impressive work by an author whose writings are a boone to collectorand scholar alike. Standardwork on the material culture of Tanzania, with mapsshowing the typological distribution.

Contents:

-A short history of the Bantu

–The etymology of Mwana Hiti

–Ethnography of the Zaramo and Kwere peoples of Eastern Tanzania

–Mwana hiti in Zaramoland

–An idea’s journey

Styles:

-who made what ?

–a stylistic and morphological analysis of trunk figurines

–stylistic zones of the Tanzanian hinterland

–stylistic subdivision of african art

–« masters of style »

-stylistic diagnose

Typology:

-typology and taxonomy

–typology table

Thecycle of life and the art that enriched it : youth – initiation – maturity –death

Illustrations: trunk figurines – grave markers – gourds – staffs – poles – posts – sticks –flatbar zithers – trough zithers – fiddles – drums – thumb pianos – Flageolets– side-blown trumpets – spoons – ladles – hairpins/combs – lidded containers –gameboards – stools – thrones – flywhisks – axes – figures – « magical » horns– masks – terra-cottas

Symbolsand icons : symbols – icons – the man on the stool

Conclusions

Ouvrage majeur sur lesobjets tanzaniens, bien sûr les petites effigies bien connues appelées « mwana hiti» (voir page de couverture) mais aussi les autres productions matérielles d’unegrande partie des peuples de Tanzanie comme le montre le sommaire (note : lesMakondé et ethnies proches sont étudiés à part dans un autre livre du mêmeauteur « Tanzania » également dans cette vente). Avec cartes de répartition géographique des objets selonleur style.

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