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Vigilant Things
On Thieves, Yoruba Anti-Aesthetics, and The Strange Fates of Ordinary Objects in Nigeria
Winner of the 2012 Melville J. Herskovits award (African Studies Association)Throughout southwestern Nigeria, Yoruba men and women create objects called aale to protect their properties—farms,...
ISBN: 9780295990736
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The Shattered Gourd
Yoruba Forms in Twentieth Century American Art
The Shattered Gourd uses the lens of visual art to examine connections between the United States and the Yoruba region of western Nigeria.In Yoruba legend, the sacred Calabash of Being...
ISBN: 9780295981505
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Arts of Global Africa
The Newark Museum Collection
The Newark Museum has been at the forefront of American art museums in its representation of the arts of Africa since 1917. Newark’s collection is notable for its embrace of the entire continent...
ISBN: 9780932828170
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The Gelede Spectacle
Art, Gender, and Social Harmony in an African Culture
This remarkable study explores the use of the visual and performing arts to promote nonviolence and social harmony in sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on Gelede, a popular community festival of masquerade,...
ISBN: 9780295975993
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African-Print Fashion Now!
A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style
African-Print Fashion Now! introduces visitors to a dynamic and diverse African dress tradition and the increasingly interconnected fashion worlds that it inhabits: “popular” African-print...
ISBN: 9780990762638
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Africa in the Market
While many publications focus on the aesthetics and symbolism of African art, few explore the historical dynamics and exchanges that have informed the way people in Africa have created, preserved,...
ISBN: 9780888545060
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Zina Saro-Wiwa
Did You Know We Taught Them How to Dance?
Zina Saro-Wiwa: Did You Know We Taught Them How to Dance? is the first publication on the work of Zina Saro-Wiwa, a British-Nigerian video artist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. Occupying...
ISBN: 9781883015480
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Africa at the Tropenmuseum
Africa at the Tropenmuseum is not meant to be a general book on art from Africa, but rather a treatise on the formation and development of a specific Africa collection, which started at the...
ISBN: 9789460221194
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