Asen, ancestors, and vodun
Subtitle: tracing change in African art
By: Edna Bay.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780252032554
Subjects: Altars, Fon -- Benin; Ironwork, Fon -- Benin; Metal sculpture -- Benin; Fon (African people) -- Religion; Ancestor worship -- Benin
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Note on orthography; title: Vodun, sacrifice, and the sinuka; title: Invention of ancestral asen; title: Hountondji family of Smiths and Dahomean royal patronage; title: From tourist to sacred: colonial culture and the creation of traditions; title: Messages of power: asen tableau to the early twentieth century; title: Mixed messages and migrating meanings; title: Death and the culture wars: the 1990s.