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Description: The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art
The body, real or depicted, does not represent the limits of person-hood in Africa, but rather should be considered a temporary site, always in flux, for the articulation of the subject. It might be understood as the confluence of various spiritual and physical strands, from ancestral currents to an animating life force to individualized threads setting the destiny of the person whose body they...
PublisherHarvard University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.53-86
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00136.007

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