A social and iconographic history of a West African sculptural form

In this sensitive and personal investigation into Benin's occult world, Douglas J. Falen wrestles with the challenges of encountering a reality in which magic,

Caulder writes of the links between her heritage, her spirituality and the practices of Voodoo and Shamanism. color photos.

Vodou, the folk religion of Haiti, is a by-product of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions. In this book, Lesl

"This book will be of critical importance not only to those concerned with African, African American, and Caribbean art, but also to anthropologists, scholars o