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| African Storytelling In the village stories are clearly seen as in the domain of the element mineral, holding the key to memory and purpose. Everyone must participate and bathe in mythologies. Stories are not just for children; they are for the child in everyone, who remembers and understands. Stories open a world wherein relating to others and the world is automatic, and they boost imagination toward a place of better self-knowledge. Without stories, a society will find it difficult to hold itself together. It is as if stories bond people together and allow each individual to better comprehend what their place is in the world, and how their place holds everything else together. Indigenous teachings are derived from stories that they see as eternal blueprints for human wisdom. Like a forest in which countless beings find their home, stories are places where each one of us can find a home. The home in the story is the image we hang on to and identify with. It represents our address in the city of the story. This home can change from story to story and from one day to the next. This is because as the circumstances of our lives change, so too does the place we inhabit in stories. - Malidoma Patrice Somé, The Healing Wisdom of Africa |
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Dogon: Africa's People of the Cliffs Walter E. A. Van Beek, Stephenie Hollyman Photo Harry N. Abrams, 2001. 
| In a remote area of Mali, West Africa, the people called Dogon survive today as they have for thousands of years: in mud-brick houses below the Bandiagara cliffs. In the sandy plains, they grow the millet and sorghum they need to live. This arresting photographic portrait allows us privileged access to their traditional way of life, remarkably maintained today even after extensive contact with Western civilization. |
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Bless Ethiopia Richard Pankhurst ; Photography by K. Nomachi Odyssey, New York 
| Ethiopia is a vast country of remarkable scenic beauty. The vivid contrast in its geographical environment, from fertile plains to hostile scrublands, has produced remarkable differences in lifestyles. Many groups of people make their homes in this little known land, speaking 80 different languages, practicing a variety of religions and maintaining a diversity of cultures. |
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Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual Magic in the Life of African Shaman Malidoma Some Penguin, New York, 1994 
| Kidnapped as a young child from his tribal village in West Africa, Some was trained ("brainwashed") for 15 years in a strict French Catholic mission school, until he rebelled, ran away, and made his way back through the jungle to his original home. |
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Beginnings : The Story of Origins, of Mankind, Life, the Earth, the Universe Isaac Asimov 
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A wondrous excursion through 15 billion years of human and prehuman history, written by America's most popular and exciting science writer. From the explosive flash of the birth of the universe to the evolution of algae and reptiles, Asimov covers the infinite and the microscopic in rich detail. Previously published by Walker and Company.
- Ingram |
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African Elegance Ettagale Blauer Rizzoli, New York, 1999 
| In Africa, beaded ornaments may mark an individual's progress through life, and intricate woven fabrics chronicle the deeds of warriors and kings. |
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The Royal Arts of Africa - The Magisty of Form Suzanne Preston Blier Harry Abrams, New York,1988 
| Blier draws on a vast range of individual objects--crowns, masks, thrones and regalia, palace architecture, painting, textiles, body decoration, and jewelry--as well as archival photographs of art works in use in ceremonies and performances ... |
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Rock Art : Paintings and Engravings on Stone David Colson & Alec Campbell Harry Abrams, New York, 2001. 
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At the end of the last Ice Age (over 12,000 years ago), artists throughout Africa produced stunning work that survives to this day on boulders and cliffs, and in caves. In African Rock Art: Paintings and Engravings on Stone, Alec Campbell (founder and first director of the National Museum and Art Gallery of Botswana) and photographer David Coulson (coauthor, Namib, The Lost World of the Kalahari) survey the genre with more than 200 color photos and 178 line drawings that detail elements of these complex compositions.
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A Short History of African Art Werner Gillon Peguin, New York, 1991 
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Conversations with Ogotemmeli - An Introduction to Dogon Religious Ideas Marcel Griaule Oxford University Press, 1970 | |
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African Ark Graham Hancock Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1990 
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