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Article Excerpt
Makishi: Mask Characters of Zambia. Manuel Jordan. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2006. 84 pp.
From the art historical perspective of traditional African art, the distinction between the systems of thought and the supporting visual traditions among the continent's ethnic groups, especially living within the same geographical region, is more of artificiality than reality. Yet that given African ethnic group may have certain peculiar traits that set it apart from its immediate neighbor is not contested. For instance, prior to, and even after, the partition of Africa by European powers following the Berlin Conference of 1884-85, there have always been traces of intercultural exchanges, borrowings, and assimilations. As this relates to the ethnic groups or subgroups in central Africa, Manuel Jordan's Makishi: Mask Characters of Zambia underscores this "unity in diversity" nature of traditional African arts.
Echoed in the foreword by Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts (p. 6), Jordan states clearly the two-fold aim of the book. First, it sets to complement and update existing scholarship by offering more...
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