Bay Edna G.:
Asen, Ancestors, And Vodun
Tracing Change In African Art
University Of Illinois Press (United States), 2008
Hardback, 208 pages
Size: 231x155 mm
ISBN: 9780252032554
ISBN-10: 0252032551
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Asen, Ancestors, And Vodun
Asen, metal sculptures of southern Benin, West Africa, are created to honour the dead. This work traces more than 150 years of transformations in the manufacture and symbolic meanings of asen against the backdrop of a slave-raiding monarchy, domination by French colonialism, and postcolonial political and social change.

