Dinka

Angela Fisher, Carol Beckwith (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2010 | Revised ed.
Rizzoli International Publications (Verlag)
978-0-8478-3497-6 (ISBN)

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This seminal volume on the indigenous African Dinka group is a landmark documentation of a vanishing people in war-torn Sudan. World-renowned photographers Angela Fisher and Carol Beckwith have devoted their lives to documenting the rapidly disappearing ceremonies and cultures of the indigenous people of Africa. In breathtakingly poignant images, they present a story that started with their first visit to the Dinka thirty years ago. Living in harmony with their cattle, the Dinka have survived years of war only to find their culture on the brink of vanishing forever. Where the White Nile River reaches Dinka country, it spills over 11,000 square miles of flood plain to form the Sudd, the largest swamp in the world. In the dry season, it provides abundant pasture for cattle, and this is where the Dinka set up their camps. The men dust their bodies and faces with gray ash--protection against flies and lethal malarial mosquitoes, but also considered a mark of beauty. Covered with this ash and up to 7' 6- tall, the Dinka were referred to as -gentle- or -ghostly- giants by the early explorers. The Dinka call themselves -jieng- and -mony-jang, - which means -men of men.-

Angela Fisher and Carol Beckwith have spent a lifetime studying the peoples of the Horn of Africa, and have published their photography in a series of acclaimed books as well as major magazine features in Time, Life, Vogue, Marie Claire, and Elle. They exhibit and lecture widely at prestigious venues such as the American Museum of Natural History, The Smithsonian Institution, and the Royal Geographical Society in London. Francis M. Deng is currently Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide. He has also served as a senior diplomat for Sudan, as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (1976-80), and as an ambassador to the United States.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.9.2010
Zusatzinfo	130 Colour Photographs
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	305 x 406 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Bildbände ► Afrika
ISBN-10	0-8478-3497-2 / 0847834972
ISBN-13	978-0-8478-3497-6 / 9780847834976
Zustand	Neuware