Abstract

LEITE, Rogério Cezar de Cerqueira  and  PIMENTEL, Helena Cerqueira Leite. Corporal fusion and dissociation among the Lobi of Burkina Faso. Ide (São Paulo) [online]. 2010, vol.33, n.51, pp.128-132. ISSN 0101-3106.

The Lobi, an etnie of Burkina Faso characterized by a stable and well developed social structure has as its main religious and esthetic manifestation the creation an extremely expressive statuary once that it incorporates the spirits of their ancestrals and the historical memory of their own people. A rare double statue, analyzed here, resorts to a form of expression common to many past cultures, the fusion of different personages, but which, however, reaches here levels of intensity in expressivity and psiquic tension rarely observed in the arts of primordial cultures.

Keywords : African art; Lobi; Body fusion.

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