African art
By: Maurice Delafosse
Publisher: Parkstone Press International
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781844848973
Subjects: Social life and customs; Ethnology; Civilization; African Art; Blacks
Work titles: Noirs de l'Afrique
Notes: "A selection of the research about the African civilisations which he [the author] explains in Les Noirs de l'Afrique (1922) and Les Nègres (1927)"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins and prehistory; title: Development of Negro civilisations in antiquity; title: Negro Africa in the Middle Ages; title: West Africa from the 15th century to today; title: The Negroes of central and eastern Sudan; title: South Africa; title: Material civilisations; title: Social customs; title: Religious beliefs and practises; title: Artistic and intellectual expression.