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The mukanda was once an essential institution in Central Africa, comprising a men’s fraternity with boys’ puberty initiation. Thanks to the charisma of its masquerading, the initiation is still going strong among the Eastern Pende... more
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      Central AfricaDemocratic Republic of CongoAfrican Art HistoryAfrican Masks
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      African StudiesCameroonAfrican Art HistoryAfrican Masks
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      African StudiesAfrican HistoryAfricaWest Africa
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      ReligionSociology of ReligionAfrican StudiesAnthropology
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      Identity (Culture)African MasksBurkina FasoReligious Identity
Tom R. Chambers used an African Traditional mask from the Dan Tribe in Eastern Liberia (a piece from the National Gallery of Zimbabwe Permanent Collection: PC-6400-0147) as the object for the photogram, then manipulated the non-exposed... more
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      PhotogrammetryArt TheoryPhotographyContemporary Art
in Adam Pendleton: Who We Are. Galerie Max Hetzler, 2019.
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      Black/African DiasporaContemporary ArtAfrican Diaspora StudiesHauntology
The apparent visual simplicity of Hazoumè’s masks belies their true complexity. Made from plastic jerry cans—gasoline or petrol cans—they are not casually recycled art. Hazoumè’s masks are objects that are plastics re-formed, re-made by... more
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      Contemporary ArtAfrican MasksMasksContemporary African art
Parler de la représentation de l'objet au sein de la littérature subsaharienne c'est reconnaître non seulement les dimensions de perception que les personnages se font de celui-ci mais aussi l'ancrage socio-culturel et le travail de... more
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      SociologyAfrican StudiesFrench LiteratureLiterature
היש צוהלת ושמחה, כמוני מסכה על המשמר 09/08/1991
נושא: מסכות
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      ArchaeologyAnthropologyMuseum StudiesEthnography
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      African StudiesArt HistoryArtInitiation Practices (Anthropology)
As custodians of an important section of Africa’s past and advocates for the value of the past in the present/future, archaeologists working in universities, museums and heritage agencies or as commercial consultants are in positions of... more
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      Cultural StudiesAfrican StudiesArchaeologyEthics
This essay was an assignment for an Arts of Africa course offered in the Department of Art and Art History at my university by Dr. Kathryn Floyd. The class notes cited throughout refer to class lectures and discussions, and the other... more
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      Social ChangeAfrican StudiesVisual StudiesArt History
Paolo Israel, in Africa Every Day: Fun Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent, ed., Oluwakemi M. Balogun, Lisa Gilman, Melissa Graboyes, and Habib Iddrisu (Ohio University Press, 2019)
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      MozambiqueAfrican MasksMasksMasquerade
Explore the concept of "masquerade" in West Africa—face masks, costumes, dance, music, and audience participation—and consider its role in the physical movement of performers as well as the movement of individuals within society. Fall... more
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      Exhibition, Museum, Expositions and Worlds FairsAfrican Art HistoryAfrican MasksAfrican Art
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      ZambiaMalawiAfrican MasksHistory of Secret Societies
This paper examines the rock art of the nyau secret society of eastern Zambia and central Malaŵi. The art dates principally from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It has been known to researchers since the 1970s but has given... more
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      Rock Art (Archaeology)Resistance (Social)Africa (Archaeology)British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - )
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      Initiation Practices (Anthropology)Rock Art (Archaeology)Prehistoric Rock ArtMalawi
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      African StudiesCameroonAfrican Art HistoryAfrican Masks
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      MythologySocial and Cultural AnthropologyOral TraditionsAfrican Masks
Depicted Sign Language was used to translate the signs used to create the Form and Imagery of the Songye culture's masks from the Congo River basin in Africa.
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      ArchaeologyAfrican Masks
E aku nei, e aku rahi, e aku rau rangatira, tēnā koutou katoa. Ko tēnei taku mihi ki te rohe nei. Ahumairangi, tēnā koe. He mihi ki te marae, ki Te Herenga Waka, ki ngā rangatira o tēnei whare wānanga. E ngā kaihautu i whakarite i tēnei... more
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      African MasksSherrie LevineWalker Evans
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form of electronic or mechanical means including storage by information or retrieval systems without written permission of the authors except in the case of brief... more
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      ArchaeologyOlmec archaeologyAncient Egyptian HistoryAntiquity
In his own words, Gael Froget (born 1986, Quatre Bornes, Mauritius) is an artist "sitting on the fence between pop art and primitivism: he explores the trends, paints and vandalises to create unique, grotesque and sarcastic artworks that... more
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      African StudiesVisual StudiesVisual AnthropologyMuseum Studies