Flash of the Spirit
Author: Robert Farris Thompson
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-05-26
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0307874338
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This landmark book shows how five African civilizations—Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River—have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World.