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Author:
Israel, Paolo, author.
Title:
In step with the times : mapiko masquerades of Mozambique / Paolo Israel.
Publisher:
Ohio University Press,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xvi, 329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Mapiko (Dance drama)--History--20th century.
Masks, Makonde--History--20th century.
Makonde (African people)--Rites and ceremonies.
Makonde (African people)--Social life and customs.
Mozambique--Social life and customs.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Epilogue : resurrections. The war of sexes : the colonial library and its afterlife -- Passage, secrecy, rivalry : an excursion into anthropological theory -- Meat is meat : modernism in the aftermath of slavery -- Masters of play : late-colonial aesthetics and practice -- Lowland nights : ambivalence in the face of death -- Migrant tunes : on the threshold of nationalism -- Ten years of war : shaping the people -- Youth power : villages, festivals, and rivals -- Faceless spirits : the rise and fall of feminist masquerades -- Don't go astray : democracy and disorder -- Puppets and machetes : boys in a wild world -- Epilogue : resurrections.
Series:
New African histories
ISBN:
0821444867 (pdf)
9780821444863 (pdf)
0821420887 (pb : alk. paper)
9780821420881 (pb : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)861676381
LCCN:
2014009787
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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