Léopold Sédar Senghor (born 1906) was an African poet, philosopher, and president of Senegal. He was one of the originators of "Negritude," a "black is beautiful" doctrine begun in Paris during the 1930s. The map of Africa as it exists toda...

By Ann Fienup-Riordan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. 320 pp. Hardbound, $75.00. Our Way of Making Prayer: Yup'ik Masks and the Stories They Tell is a collection of the remembrances of thirty-three Yup'ik elders who witnessed and took part in the...

THE LIVING TRADITION OF YUP'IK MASKS: AGAYULIYARARPUT, OUR WAY OF MAKING PRAYER. By ANN FIENUP-RIORDAN, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. 320 p., maps, b&w illus., colour illus., glossary, bib., index. Hardbound. US$75.00. I am a great fan of Ann Fienup-Riordan's books...