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African Ceremonies
by Beckwith, Carol and Angela Fisher
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- hardcover
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- First
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About This Item
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1999; First Edition; quarto; two volumes; black cloth; gilt titles; woven cloth marker ribbons of African design. Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher’s extraordinary photographic study chronicling native ceremonies from across the African continent -- North, East, South, West, and Central Africa. Detailed chapters on rites of birth and initiation, courtship and marriage, royalty and power, changing of the seasons, beliefs and worship, and spirits and ancestors. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of mesmerizing color photographs. A unique and astonishing work, nearly 750 pages in all. Fine, in a Fine slipcase. Warmly inscribed and signed in the blank margin of the title page of each volume by a notable Hollywood film actress to distinguished screenwriter friend Gloria Katz.
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- Bookseller
- AARDWOLF Fine Books
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- Bookseller Inventory #
- 6372
- Title
- African Ceremonies
- Author
- Beckwith, Carol and Angela Fisher
- Book condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York,
- Date published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Africa, Religion, African Ceremonies, Ethnography, Ethnology, Archaeology, Anthropology, Photography, Archeology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Archaeology and Anthropology;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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