The Wild Bull and the Sacred Forest : Form, Meaning, and Change in Senegambian Initiation Masks (Paperback)

Foreword; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: method and subject; 2. Ethnographic background; 3. Bukut initiation; 4. History and provenance of the Ejumba mask; 5. Iconography of the horned mask; 6. Mandinka or Jola? Art and culture as regional processes; 7. Islam and Casamance masking traditions; 8. Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography.