Mande Blacksmiths

<p> . . . finely crafted scholarship. Elegant and graceful yet packed with knowledge and information it embodies the aesthetic qualities which it describes and explores. --American Ethnologist<br /><br />The text is detailed and informative and enjoyable reading . . . --Choice<br /><br />The Mande Blacksmith is an important book . . . sensitive sympathetic multifaceted and thorough . . . --African Arts<br /><br />McNaughton's Mande Blacksmiths is undeniably the most profound study of African artists yet published. --Ethnoarts<br /><br /> . . . penetrating . . . McNaughton boldly grapples with the thorniest issues related to his subject and articulates them with clarity and precision. --International Journal of African Historical Studies<br /><br /> . . . a work in the best tradition of ethnographic research. . . . critical reappraisal innovative inquiry and fresh observation . . . make this book an invaluable fund of new material on Mande societies . . . --American Anthropologist<br /><br />McNaughton . . . provides an important interpretation of these artists' conceptual place as members of a complex culture. --Religious Studies Review<br /><br />Examining the artistic technological social and spiritual dimensions of Mande blacksmiths who are the sculptors of their society McNaughton defines these artists' conceptual place as extraordinary members of a complex culture.</p>