African Ark: Peoples of the Horn
by Carol Beckwith, Angela Fisher
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0810919028
- ISBN 13
- 9780810919020
- Seller
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About This Item
Two talented photographers focus on the Horn of Africa–an "ark" that shelters an astonishing variety of landscapes and human societies. Starting with the Christian Amharas of Lalibela and Axum and the Falashas of Lake Tana, they complete an arc that takes them to the seacoast of Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia, as far south as Lamu in Kenya, and finally to the remote peoples of the Southeast who still engage in stick fighting, body painting, scarification and the wearing of lip plates. Other handsome peoples they depict include the desert-dwelling Afar, Beja and Rashaida, the Somali nomads of Ogaden and the ecstatic Oromo (formerly Galla) pilgrims of the Bale Mountains. As in Beckwith and Fisher's previous, award-winning books ( Maasai and Nomads of the Niger ), their magnificent color photos (240 of them here) are the glory of this beautifully designed volume. Hancock's ( Ethiopia ) useful if uninspired text covers indigenous societies, cultures, crafts, religions, sacred places, dances, and cycles of life and death.
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- Bookseller
- Sheet Music Store and More (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 308
- Title
- African Ark
- Author
- Carol Beckwith, Angela Fisher
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0810919028
- ISBN 13
- 9780810919020
- Publisher
- Harvill
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Pages
- 320
- Keywords
- afrrica, african ark, horn