Le Souffle des esprits. Art sacré du bassin de l'Ogôoué. Archéologie généralité their collective vocation

their collective vocation

this first monograph on Benjamin-Constant brings together an international team of seasoned experts who

Eva Cantarella invites us to return to the Greeks and Romans

de la Nuit à l'Aurore

the great Italian historian and intellectual Guglielmo Ferrero leads his reader to take a step back from contemporary history through an in-depth rereading of ancient Rome at the time of its fall

Le Souffle des esprits. Art sacré du bassin de l'Ogôoué. Archéologie généralité their collective vocationUnlike some regions of Africa that saw the establishment of large kingdoms, the Ogoou in Gabon never had court art. Here, art is always ritual: objects are intended for rites practiced within a society of the "family anarchy" type, where clan and lineage predominate over any other organizational firm. The religious objects of the Ogoou Valley, which we classify today as works of art, had a function serving the individual and the community: to