The Gan of Burkina Faso - Daniela Bognolo (2010)

Reconstitution of the history and symbolics of a little-known kingdom, located in the south-west region of Burkina Faso.

Published by Fondation Culturelle Musée Barbier-Mueller
Engelstalig, paperback, 2010, in nieuwstaat, 175 pagina's, rijk en prachtig geillustreerd.

For the Gan, every form of power is legitimized by its relation to a traditional and official state system of cults dedicated to a pantheon of supernatural entities, associated in particular with the spirits of the dead who held princely rank during their lives. The cult objects and symbols identifying these entities spectacular animal figurations in bronze turn out to play a determining role in the procedures for relating the present to the past, to the point of constituting formidable objects of memory.