Books with title African Art and Culture

Why are the mud mosques in northern and western Africa rebuilt each year? What do the different colors in bead necklaces symbolize? What are fantasy coffins? Arts and crafts offer a window into African culture, reflecting its history, technology, beliefs, and every-day life. Every piece of African art tells us something about the environment and the culture it was developed in, so that we can see how and why people make their art.

Where in Africa do people name their children according to the day of the week they were born? How many different languages are spoken in Africa? Which African tribe has lived in the Kalahari Desert for 10,000 years? Africa Focus offers fascinating and detailed coverage of a diverse and complex continent. The four titles examine different aspects of Africa and its interaction with the world.

From the dry Sahara Deser to the rainy Congo jungles, explore the second largest continent in the world, home to 54 countries. This exciting series gives readers their first taste of the various cultures that are present in today’s world. It allows readers to explore the world and the diversity of cultures that it has to offer with engaging and accessible language and full color images.

How is the Day of the Dead celebrated? What effect did politics have on twentieth-century painting? How do you weave with a backstrap loom? Arts and crafts offer a window into Mexican culture, reflecting its history, technology, beliefs, and every-day life. Every piece of Mexican art tells us something about the environment and the culture it was developed in, so that we can see how and why people make their art.