Flash of the Spirit

This landmark book shows how five African civilizations-Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River-have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World.Flash of the Spirit Edition by Robert Farris Thompson and Publisher Vintage. ISBN: 9780307874337, 0307874338. The print version of this textbook is ISBN: 9780394723693, 0394723694.