Browsing Category Anthropology, Archaeology & Ethnography

SUSAN WOOLFF, Taxi Hand Signs
31 pp., colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R70
A catalogue of hand signals and the taxi routes they indicate. Includes maps of the taxi routes in Soweto, central Johannesburg and Gauteng.

Artist Susan Woolff undertakes social interventionist art projects. Her conceptual artworks include the 'Healing' installation exhibited in Museum Africa. She also worked on the 'Mobile City' for Absa Bank. She is currently researching taxi destinations and their corresponding hand signs for her PhD in Anthropology and Art at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her rendition of taxi hand signs feature on the 2010 South African National commemorative stamps and envelopes.This booklet was launched with the stamps at the Standard Bank Art Gallery in January 2010.
Bank (A.) ed. KRONOS 31, journal of Cape history, November 2005
288 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2005. R190
Articles include "History and Film: a roundtable discussion of 'Proteus'" edited by Susan Newton-King. "Proteus" is a feature film directed by Jack Lewis (South Africa) & John Greyson (Canada). Also includes "The Private Performance of Events" colonial period rock art from the Swartruggens" by Simon Hall & Aron Mazel & "Photography with a Difference: Leon Levson's camera studies and photographic exhibitions of native life in South Africa, 1947-1950" by Gary Minkley & Ciraj Rassool.
Bassani (E.) curator ARTS OF AFRICA, 7000 years of African art
409 pp., 4to., map, colour illus., hardback, & Monaco, 2005. R655
Catalogue of the exhibition, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, 2005.

Includes ancient and "traditional" art from central and west Africa, especially ancient Nubia, Nigeria, Benin, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mali, Burkino Faso, & Gabon.

All the owrks come from the Contemporary African Art Collection, Geneva.
Bastin (M-L.) SCULPTURE ANGOLAISE, mémorial de cultures
192 pp., 4to., map, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Lisbon, 1994. R950
Catalogue of the exhibition, Museu Nacional de Etnologia, Lisbon, 1994.

Includes sticks, masks, dolls, collars, chairs, stools, pots, pipes, effigies, combs, figures, statuettes etc. from the different regions of Angola.

Text in French.
Beckwith (C.) & Fischer (A.) AFRICAN CEREMONIES, the concise edition
400 pp., 4to., map, colour illus., hardback, d.w., New York, 2002. R760
Includes chapters on the Swazi reed dance, Ndebele nuptials, Himba marriage and Himba healing.

Includes a CD of traditional and ceremonial African music recorded by David Bradnum
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