New softcover book with NO marks or flaws. 424 pages. Wombs and Alien Spirits is an in-depth study that explores the zâr cult, the most widely practiced traditional healing cult in Africa. Adherents of the cult are usually women with marital or fertility problems, who are possessed by spirits very different from their own proscribed roles as mothers. View More...
Hardcover edition in very good condition. No marks inside or out, covers clean; dust jacket has slight shelf wear. 146 pages. Photographs by Georg Gerster and Abdul Fattah Eid, foreward by Laila Shukry El Hamamsy, architecture notes by Horst Jaritz. Full-color and black and white photographs throughout; includes index. View More...
1971 softcover. 2nd Printing. Photographs from an exhibition produced by the National Film Board of Canada, accompanied by excerpts in English and French from "The Harvest" by Kwesi Brew. 75 unnumbered pages. Text in English and French. Good condition: Covers are age-toned and with light stains/spots. No marks or writing in book. View More...
Hardcover in dust jacket. NO marksor writing in book. Holding up ver nicely, overall. Jacket has a few archival repairsto some closed tears, moderate edgewear. Now under clear mylar sleeve.Richard David Shepherd is a British artist and one of the world's most outspoken conservationists. He is most famous for his paintings of steam locomotives and wildlife, although he also often paints aircraft, portraits and landscapes. His work has been extremely popular since the 1960s in limited edition print reproduction and poster form, as well as other media such as high quality limited edition plates... View More...
Bright, clean, new softcover with no marks or flaws. No sign of handling or wear. 192 pages. Lavishly illustrated with nearly two hundred color and black and white images of tools, techniques, craftsmen, and crafted objects, Mande potters and leatherworkers both displays the beauty of Mande art and illuminates seldom-seen technological and social aspects of its art history. View More...
Nonesuch Explorer Series; Nonesuch Records, 2002. CD still sealed in original shrink-wrap. Never opened. Mint condition. Classic field recordings, including liner notes, featuring the mbira dzavadzimu. Recorded by ethnomusicologist Paul Berliner who wrote the fundamental guide to Mbira, The Soul of Mbira.
Includes two essential pieces: "Nhemamusasa" and "Nyamaropa yevana vaVaMushonga." View More...
