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A Sense of Wonder: African Art from the Faletti Family Collection

1999; UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center; Volume: 32; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/3337719

1937-2108

Michael Hamson, Mary Nooter Roberts, Allen F. Roberts,

African history and culture studies

maconde, which recapitulates many of the same points already presented in other essays. One small observation deserves repeating: because they are generally carved from the lightweight wild kapok, the mapico masks are easily broken. Duarte asserts that it was the practice to bum masks once they suffered damage. This would have had the effect of keeping new masks in demand and would help explain the large number of active carvers. Taken as a whole, this volume is welcome because it makes accessible to the Englishspeaking reader a body of material usually available only in Portuguese. The essays overlap in places, but the contrast between the structural functionalism of the Diases and the