MAQUET (Jacques J.) Africa: Black Civilizations. - Lot 216

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MAQUET (Jacques J.) Africa: Black Civilizations. - Lot 216
MAQUET (Jacques J.) Africa: Black Civilizations. Paris, Horizons de France, [1968]. Large quarto, publisher’s cloth-bound hardcover with a color-illustrated photographic dust jacket, 287 pp., extensive black-and-white and color photographic illustrations, maps, index, and bibliography. Third edition, revised and updated, as expressly indicated on the title page of your copy. This is therefore a later edition than the original from 1962 that you had previously shown me. The BnF does indeed list, in addition to the 1962 edition, a Horizons de France edition dated [1968]. An important overview by anthropologist Jacques J. Maquet (1919–2013) devoted to the societies and arts of sub-Saharan Africa. The book was a real success and was reprinted several times. Maquet offers an original interpretation of the continent through six major types of civilizations, characterized in particular by their modes of subsistence and social organization. The study begins with traditional civilizations—hunters, forest farmers, savanna societies, and pastoralists—and then moves on to urban societies and the transformations associated with industrialization. This classification was one of the book’s innovative features at the time of its publication. Considerable attention is given to African arts and their social and ritual contexts: masks, sculptures, ancestor figures, ceremonial objects, architecture, and adornments. The photographs also depict ceremonies, dancers, villages, and communities, lending the work a dimension that is as much ethnographic as it is artistic. The original 1962 edition comprised 287 pages, 200 photographs, 16 color plates, and 17 maps; this third edition retains this richly illustrated format while offering a revised and updated text. A very fine copy. The interior is particularly fresh and clean. The hardcover is in excellent condition. The original dust jacket is remarkably well-preserved, with only very slight signs of wear; the colors are fresh. A very presentable copy.
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