Mande Potters & Leather Workers: Art and Heritage in West Africa

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Author: Frank, Barbara E.

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press

Pub Date: 1998

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Good.  NOT price clipped (no price indicated).   Some wear to head of spine.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes: “Examining the roles of Mande leather-workers and potters in the rise and fall of empires, the development of trans-Saharan trade networks, and the spread of Islam, Frank questions the ‘one-tribe, one-style’ interpretations that have dominated studies of West African art.”  (From the flap)

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