Author: Leo Frobenius File Type: pdf An eminent German explorer, ethnologist, and authority on prehistoric art, Leo Frobenius (18731938) startled the world of anthropology with his concept of continuity of cultures proposing, for instance, a link between Egyptian religious symbols and preexisting African mythology. In the course of his anthropological fieldwork, Frobenius and other members of his expeditions collected an abundance of authentic African folklore. This volume presents a rich selection of these fascinating tales, fables, and legends. Stories range from the Kabyl legends of the early Berbers and ballads of the Fulbe bards of Sahel in the southern Sahara to the comically exaggerated Improbable Tales of the Mande in Sudan and the captivating creation myths of the Wahungwe of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The thematic variations in the tales correspond with their narrators diverse geographical and cultural backgrounds. Recounted with engaging simplicity and directness, these frequently amusing, sometimes bizarre stories are illustrated with adaptations of prehistoric rock paintings and portraits of twentieth-century Africans. Of immense value to students of African culture, this book will also appeal to the many devoted readers of folklore and mythology. **From Library Journal Noted anthropologist Frobenius published this collection of African folk tales and legends in 1937, a year before his death. The text here is buttressed with maps and illustrations. Though the book is not out of print, this is currently the most affordable edition available. 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. About the Author Susan Fox, a licensed pediatric neurodevelopmental therapist, is director of the Pediatric Therapy Clinic in Seattle. Her guide for fathers of babies in their first year, Rookie Dad, is available from Pocket Books. Fox teaches workshops on child development at Microsoft, and trains early childhood educators, therapists, nurses, and physicians.

Author: Kathleen M. Higgins File Type: pdf This volume examines the motives behind rejections of beauty often found within contemporary art practice, where much critically acclaimed art is deliberately ugly and alienating. It reflects on the nature and value of beauty, asking whether beauty still has a future in art and what role it can play in our lives generally. The volume discusses the possible end of art, what art is, and the relation between art and beauty beyond their historically Western horizons to include perspectives from Asia.The individual chapters address a number of interrelated issues, including art, beauty and the sacred beauty as a source of joy and consolation beauty as a bridge between the natural and the human beauty and the human form the role of curatorial practice in defining art order and creativity and the distinction between art and craft. The volume offers a valuable addition to cross-cultural dialogue and, in particular, to the sparse literature on art and beauty in comparative context. It demonstrates the relevance of the rich tradition of Asian aesthetics and the vibrant practices of contemporary art in Asia to Western discussions about the future of art and the role of beauty.**From the Back CoverThis volume examines the motives behind rejections of beauty often found within contemporary art practice, where much critically acclaimed art is deliberately ugly and alienating. It reflects on the nature and value of beauty, asking whether beauty still has a future in art and what role it can play in our lives generally. The volume discusses the possible end of art, what art is, and the relation between art and beauty beyond their historically Western horizons to include perspectives from Asia.The individual chapters address a number of interrelated issues, including art, beauty and the sacred beauty as a source of joy and consolation beauty as a bridge between the natural and the human beauty and the human form the role of curatorial practice in defining art order and creativity and the distinction between art and craft. The volume offers a valuable addition to cross-cultural dialogue and, in particular, to the sparse literature on art and beauty in comparative context. It demonstrates the relevance of the rich tradition of Asian aesthetics and the vibrant practices of contemporary art in Asia to Western discussions about the future of art and the role of beauty.About the AuthorKathleen M. Higgins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. Her main areas of research are aesthetics, continental philosophy, and philosophy of emotion. She is author of a number of books, including The Music of Our Lives (1991 rev. 2011) and The Music between Us Is Music the Universal Language? (2012), which received the American Society for Aesthetics Outstanding Monograph Prize in 2013. She has been a Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundations Bellagio Study and Conference Center and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.Shakti Maira is a respected contemporary artist in India. His work is in international collections and in the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. In 2005 he helped organize the Learning through the Arts in Asia symposium. Subsequently, UNESCO invited him to formulateThe Asian Vision of Arts in Education Learning through the Arts. His book,Towards Ananda Rethinking Indian Art and Aesthetics was published by PenguinViking in India in 2006. His paper, Socio-cultural Learning through the Arts in India was included inTransmissions and Transformations Learning through the Arts in Asia, edited by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, published by Primus Books, India (2011). Sonia Sikka is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. Her primary areas of research are philosophy of culture, philosophy of religion and continental philosophy. She is the author of Herder on Humanity and Cultural Difference Enlightened Relativism (2011), and editor, with Lori Beaman, of Multiculturalism and Religious IdentityCanada and India (2014). Her current research focuses on the idea of religion, and on intersections between religion and politics.

Author: Sam Gindin File Type: epub Amidst a significant shift from protest to politics on the contemporary left, Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin focus on some key recent moments, providing essential historical, theoretical and critical perspectives for understanding the potential as well as the limits of the Sanders electoral insurgency in the USA, the Syriza experience in Greece, and Corbiyns leadership of the Labour Party in Britain.**About the Author Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin are socialist activists and professors in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto. They are co-authors of The Making of Global Capitalism

Author: Caroline van Eck File Type: pdf Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture offers the first systematic investigation of exchanges between the arts, architecture and the theatre. The authors present many new instances of the interaction between the arts, providing a theoretical and historiographical context for these interactions. ul lOffers the first systematic investigation of exchanges between the arts, architecture and the theatre, not simply the influence of the theatre on the arts, and vice versal lDevelops a theoretical and methodological model to study such exchanges and interactionsl lPresents many new, hitherto unknown instances of the interaction between the arts, particularly architecture, and the theatre, and provides such interactions with a theoretical and historiographical contextl lAuthors have opened up new ways of analyzing theatricality both in the arts, architecture and the theatrel ul **