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Acknowledgments  Linguistic Note  Introduction: Ties that Bind: The Psychology and Power of Art  1: Vodun Art, Social History, and the Slave Trade  2: Audiences, Artists, and Sculptural Activators  3: Design in Desire: Transference and the Arts of [actual symbol not reproducible]  4: Bodies and Being: Anatomy, Anamnesis, and Representation  5: The I and Not-I in Artistic Expressions of the Self  6: Alchemy and Art: Matter, Mind, and Sculptural Meaning  7: Surface Parergon and the Arts of Suturing  8: The Force of Genre: Sculptural Tension and Typology  9: Power, Art, and the Mysteries of Rule  Conclusions, Concomitants, and Comparisons  Appendix: Collections and Stylistic Features  Sources  Notes  Bibliography  Index

xi, 476 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

This study examines the artworks of the contemporary &#34;vodun&#34; cultures of southern Benin and Togo in West Africa, as well as the related &#34;voudou&#34; traditions of the Americas. It explores such topics as the relation between art and the slave trade and the psychological dynamics of artistic expression.

African vodun : art, psychology, and power