The Artistic Traditions of Non-European Cultures

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The Artistic Traditions of Non-European Cultures. The current issue of The Artistic Traditions of Non-Europeans Countries is devoted to African cultures and it addresses matters which go beyond issues related to visual arts. In this volume the authors rather search for relations between arts and communication in different African settings.

Over millennia people have applied different ideas with the view to make ephemeral oral communication, or at least the ideas carried by spoken words, last longer. The tools applied to different thoughts have changed and developed, but the main aims remained the same since the most ancient times. They are: to be able to remember what was once said, to freez