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african
African art history
African Blackwood
apprenticeship in carving
Author's Apprenticeship
Author_Zachary Kingdon
cabo
Cabo Delgado Provinces
carvers
Carving Process
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Category=JHM
Chess Set
Christ Child
coast
colonial Mozambique
Cotton Regime
dar
Dar Es Salaam Region
east
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ethnographic sculpture
indigenous cosmology
Individual Creative Abilities
Large Adze
Lip Plug
makonde
Makonde artistic practices analysis
Makonde Carvers
Makonde People
Makonde Plateau
mueda
Mueda Plateau
Nervous Behaviour
Night Watchmen
plateau
Responsive Openness
River Rovuma
salaam
Social Reproduction
spirit possession studies
Tanganyika Railways
Throwing Sticks
Wood Rasp
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415277273
- Weight: 650g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 21 Feb 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A Host of Devils provides an in-depth account of the background, origin and development of the spirit figure sculptures which emerged during colonial times among the Makonde people of Mozambique.
The creation of such works is shown to connect with a regional system of knowledge and practice, within which spirits function as a format for expression. The book describes the ways in which the sculpture emerged, as well as the author's experience of learning how to carve.
Zachary Kingdon is the Curator of African Collections at the Liverpool Museum and conducted research among Makonde sculptors in Tanzania between 1990 and 1992.
