Dogon: Africa's People of the Cliffs
BEEK, Wakter E.A. van
From Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Heritage Bookseller
AbeBooks Member Since 1996
From Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Heritage Bookseller
AbeBooks Member Since 1996
About this Item
Illustrated with color photography throughout. 176 pages. Slim 4to, boards. d.w. New York: Abrams, 2001. A fine copy, as new in the original shrinkwrap. Seller Inventory # 302824
Bibliographic Details
Title: Dogon: Africa's People of the Cliffs
Publisher: Abrams, New York
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: hardcover
Condition: fine
Dust Jacket Condition: fine
About this title
Stephenie Hollyman’s intimate pictures show a tightly knit, cooperative society engaging in daily activities and sacred rituals: planting and harvesting crops, creating crafts, and performing varied religious ceremonies, most notably the masked dances with which the Dogon celebrate the honored burial of their dead. Walter van Beek’s engaging narrative displays the authority and observant eye of an anthropologist who has long lived among the people he writes about. This astonishing volume will find a rapt audience among readers of Abrams’ acclaimed African Ceremonies and other popular books on vanishing African tribal customs.
Walter E.A. van Beek is associate professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. He has done fieldwork in Africa for 30 years, studying the Kapsiki/Higi people of northern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria and, since 1979, the Dogon of Mali. He has written many articles and two books on Africa.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Store Description
All items are offered net, subject to prior sale.
Returns accepted within 7 days of receipt -- please contact us first.
Payment by VISA, MASTERCARD & AMERICAN EXPRESS.
Appropriate sales tax will be added for all New York State residents.
Argosy Book Store, Inc.
Benjamin Lowry
116 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022
USA
telephone 212-753-4455
fax 212-593-4784
email argosy@argosybooks.com
Orders usually ship within 2 business days. Shipping costs are estimates based on an "average" book weighing 2 pounds and measuring no more than 10 x 7 inches. If your book(s) are heavy and/or large, we may contact you to request extra shipping charges...
DOMESTIC SHIPPING:
Media Mail (Book rate) is $4.00 for 1st volume and $2.00 for each additional volume.
Priority mail is $11.00 for 1st volume and $3.00 for each additional volume.
UPS is $14.00 for 1st volume, $3.00 for each additional volume.
INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING:
Books of "average" size might be sent overseas via Global Priority Airmail for $35.00 each volume, but oversized or overweight books must be sent by other methods or carriers, and will almost certainly cost more, depending on the actual weight.
Payment Methods
accepted by seller