African Ceremonies

[A] stunner . . . these two Western women have gone further and deeper into tribal Africa than any photographers have gone before." -Wall Street Journal "A masterwork on African ritual. . . . The images are startling, the colors brilliant, the passion palpable." -Associated Press The monumental two-volume original edition of African Ceremonies has sold a remarkable 30,000 copies in the United States alone at a retail price of $150. Now Abrams is proud to publish a newly designed, very affordable one-volume edition of this definitive work on the traditional rituals of Africa, containing more than half the magnificent photographs that were in the original edition plus new images that will focus fresh attention on specific ceremonies. Many of these rituals are vanishing; never have they been portrayed with the intimacy and skill that Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher bring to this glorious book. The book is accompanied by an audio CD of African ceremonies.