Islam and Tribal Arts in West Africa
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Softcover. White pictorial wraps with black lettering; 190 pp. with 82 bw illustrations. Good, clean and tight interior but for museum bookplate inside front cover and sunning to spine. Item #119144
ISBN: 0521297915
With three chapters devoted to the ways in which Islam influenced much of West Africa, followed by the main part of the book, which discusses the strength and flexibility of West African societies and their art forms and the impact of Islam upon traditional art in the Cercle de Bondoukou and west-central areas of Ghana.
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