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Book Title
The Great African Bangle Culture
Title
The Great African Bangle Culture
EAN
9780993047855
ISBN
9780993047855
Genre
Society & Culture
Topic
Arts & Photography
Release Date
23/11/2018
Release Year
2018
Country/Region of Manufacture
GB
Item Length
162mm
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Name
The Great African Bangle Culture
Item Height
208mm
Author
Not Available
Publisher
Fruitful Publications
Item Width
162mm
Subject
Anthropology
Item Weight
475g
Number of Pages
244 Pages

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From the Preface When I first went to Africa in the 1960s, I was bowled over by African art. What really got under my skin were the bangles, principally the bronze bangles from West and Central Africa. They were tactile, weighty and full of design and form. Later, when I lived in Ghana and Togo, I built up my own collection of bangles. In recent years this collection was seen by past and present curators of the British Museum and I was encouraged to work up the expertise to comment on and possibly help classify the Museum's collection of African bangles. They recognised that they have thousands of these bangles lying mostly untouched and unloved because they could not be given a story, a context, a meaning. They were so enthusiastic and helpful that I secured introductions to many major museums around the world, to study their substantial and interesting collections. Museums in Europe and on the East and West Coasts of the United States gave me access to the rich material they had accumulated. I had the rare privilege of spending days in their storerooms in the course of which I could see and compare many thousands of bangles. The curators who accompanied me in the inspection of their bangles were aware that these beautiful artefacts had lain undisturbed because they could not be explained or set in a wider context. The bangles were attractive but seldom came with a meaningful provenance. To their great credit, these highly-qualified specialists would listen enthusiastically as my wife and I noted bangles which we had encountered elsewhere. Seeing all these bangles and thus, over time, gradually building up a picture of their types, uses and probable areas of origin, I began to realise that I was looking at a decorative culture which was self-generated, wholly unlike the decorative cultures of the rest of the world. It was unique. Astonishingly, it was to be found in almost every inhabited part of the vast semi-continental area of sub-Saharan Africa. Gold and silver were of little consequence. Copper was their precious metal . The style - instantly recognisable - was chunky, solid, weighty. Rarity was not a concern; the Eurasians' precious stones were unknown. Rings had no great meaning. It was bangles that were the standard means of conveying status, attraction and readiness for marriage. Most importantly, as I read the stories of explorers and the later accounts of African life in the 19th and 20th centuries while I worked through the museums' storerooms, it became clear to me, that for centuries, the bangle had been the one and only defining material culture shared by all Africans south of the Sahara. At last, an overall picture was emerging and there was now a chance of describing it before it was too late. The bangle culture that had unified Africans, through which and in which they had lived much of their lives, was fading fast. In their heartland of West and Central Africa the tactile bronze bangles that everyone wore in the 19th century - and which I saw occasionally in northern Ghana in the 1980s - were now encountered more in museums than on the bodies of inhabitants of those regions. This book will follow the art-historical practice of using bronze to describe all forms of copper alloys, including brass, when the composition is not directly relevant and retain copper for occasions when the pure metal is being discussed. Bangle will be used as the generic term for all forms of jewellery applied to the human body. This bangle culture is still an unselfconscious part of daily life in a few isolated African tribes and used quite naturally to send messages. But, in a few decades, this bangle culture will survive only in less traditional forms and only in limited areas in East and Southern Africa. At its height, it was an admirable system of great importance to social intercourse, replete with significance, great beauty and craftsmanship. It deserves to be recorded and I will try to do this in this

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Publisher
Fruitful Publications
ISBN-13
9780993047855
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Not Available
Publication Name
The Great African Bangle Culture
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Anthropology
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
244 Pages

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Item Height
208mm
Item Width
162mm
Item Weight
475g

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United Kingdom

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