Research Catalog

Title

Tracing memory : a glossary of graphic signs and symbols in African art and culture / Clémentine M. Faïk-Nzuji.

Author

Faïk-Nzuji Madiya, C. (Clémentine), 1944-

Publication

Hull, Québec : Canadian Museum of Civilization, c1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Canadian Museum of Civilization
• Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies
• International Centre for African Language, Literature and Tradition (Louvain, Belgium)

Description

217 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.

Series Statement

• Paper / Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies, 0316-1897 ; no. 71
• Mercury series, 0316-1854

Uniform Title

• Dit des signes. English
• Mercury series
• Paper (Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies) no. 71.

Alternative Title

• Dit des signes.
• Glossary of graphic signs and symbols in African art and culture

Subjects

• Symbolism in art > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Signs and symbols > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Art, Black > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Art, Black > Africa > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Symbolism in art > Africa > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Art, African > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Signs and symbols > Africa > Handbooks, manuals, etc

Note

• Issued also in French under title: Dit des signes.
• "International Centre for African Language, Literature and Tradition."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-216).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0660159651

LCCN

cn^96980347^

OCLC

• 35976910
• SCSB-13507254

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library