{"id":9071,"date":"2014-06-30T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/prodotto\/the-silence-of-the-women-bamana-mud-clothes-2\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T18:25:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T18:25:57","slug":"the-silence-of-the-women-bamana-mud-clothes-2","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/p\/the-silence-of-the-women-bamana-mud-clothes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silence of the Women: Bamana Mud Cloths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Silence of the Women: Bamana Mud Cloths<\/em> is the first full-length scholarly book entirely devoted to an African art form created by women of the Bamana people in Mali, West Africa.<br \/>\nThese traditional mud-dyed textiles have typically been treated as craft but, here, they are presented as a complex art form. Sarah Brett-Smith sensibly explores the hidden cultural testimony written into the mud-cloth patterns, documenting women&rsquo;s silent visual commentary on the events that dominate their lives &ndash; excision, arranged marriage, childbirth and death.<br \/>\nThis book explores both art historical and anthropological considerations of technique, style, symbolism and function in Bamana textiles. This book is a decisive contribution to our understanding of female artisans\/artists in Africa and it explores hitherto untouched areas of African art and culture and leads us into an emotional understanding of the shadowy world and silences of female knowledge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sarah C. Brett-Smith<\/strong> is a professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She specializes in the study of Bamana ritual art and medicine with a focus on the mud-dyed cloths painted by Bamana women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Silence of the Women: Bamana Mud Cloths is the first full-length scholarly book entirely devoted to an African art form created by women of the Bamana people in Mali, West Africa. These traditional mud-dyed textiles have typically been treated as craft but, here, they are presented as a complex art form. Sarah Brett-Smith sensibly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9047,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[50],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9071","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-african-art","7":"disponibilita-no","8":"description-off","10":"first","11":"outofstock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/9071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=9071"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=9071"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=9071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}