Search Results - "African Arts"

African art by Delafosse, Maurice, 1870-1926

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Traditional African art : an illustrated study / by Shakarov, Avner, Shakarova, Li͡ubov'

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African art, interviews, narratives bodies of knowledge at work /

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A companion to modern African Art /

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World directors and their films essays on African, Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern cinema / by Cardullo, Bert

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Japanese authors -- Other Asian auteurs -- Iranian and Middle-Eastern innovators -- African art -- Latin American art(ist)s.…”
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A view from the East black cultural nationalism and education in New York City / by Konadu, Kwasi

Table of Contents: “…Ujima: context and community control -- Nia: the birth of the East organization -- Ujamaa: enterprises of the East -- Kujichagulia: Uhuru Sasa Shule (freedom now school) -- Kuumba: the International African Arts Festival -- Imani: the challenge of continuity and the East legacy -- Epilogue: the East family at present.…”
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Critical essays on Dagaaba rhetoric by Naaeke, Anthony Y., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The Dagaaba of Ghana -- The cultural relevance of myth: a reader-response analysis of the Bagre myth with reference to the role and place of women in the Dagaaba society -- African art and persuasion: the rhetoric of the bera among the Dagaaba of Ghana -- Consolatory rhetoric: persuasion in Dagaaba funeral rituals and symbolic action -- Dismantling fear and establishing ethos: missionary activity as persuasion -- Breaking the silence on domestic violence: communication for development in northwestern Ghana -- Liberating the "mistress" in Africa: the prophetic role of development communication.…”
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West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals : History, Memory, and Transnationalism / by Njoku, Raphael Chijioke

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- On Origins of Masking: History, Memory, and Ritual Observances -- Aspects of Society and Culture in the Biafra Hinterland -- Bantu Migrations and Cultural Transnationalism in the Ancient Global Age, c. 2500 BCE-1400 CE -- Bight of Biafra, Slavery, and Diasporic Africa in the Modern Global Age, 1400-1800 -- Igbo Masquerade Dances in the African Diasporas:Symbols and Meanings -- Unmasking the Masquerade: Counterideologies and Contemporary Practices -- Idioms of Religion, Music, Dance, and African Art Forms -- Memory and Masquerade Narratives: The Art of Remembering.…”
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West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals : History, Memory, and Transnationalism / by Njoku, Raphael Chijioke

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- On Origins of Masking: History, Memory, and Ritual Observances -- Aspects of Society and Culture in the Biafra Hinterland -- Bantu Migrations and Cultural Transnationalism in the Ancient Global Age, c. 2500 BCE-1400 CE -- Bight of Biafra, Slavery, and Diasporic Africa in the Modern Global Age, 1400-1800 -- Igbo Masquerade Dances in the African Diasporas:Symbols and Meanings -- Unmasking the Masquerade: Counterideologies and Contemporary Practices -- Idioms of Religion, Music, Dance, and African Art Forms -- Memory and Masquerade Narratives: The Art of Remembering.…”
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Sex, power and slavery /

Table of Contents: “…Candido -- Sex trafficking and prostitution: Japanese brothel prostitution, daily life, and the client: colonial Singapore, 1870-1940 / James Francis Warren -- Body-price: ambiguities in the sale of women at the end of the Qing Dynasty / Johanne Ransmeir -- Sex slavery and human trafficking in Nigeria; an overview / Roseline Uyanga with Marie-Luise Ermisch -- The realities and rise of female sex trafficking in Thailand and Cambodia in the latter half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century / Francesca Ann Louise Mitchell -- The Japanese army and comfort women in World War II / Shigeru Sato -- Art, sexuality, and slavery: hidden geographies of the Cape: shifting representations of slavery and sexuality in South African art and fiction / Gabeba Baderoon -- Innocence curtailed: reading maternity and sexuality as labor in Canadian representations of Black girls / Charmaine Nelson -- Gender, sex, and power: images of enslaved women's bodies / Ana Lucia Araujo -- Queering the study of slavery: "To lever's on soap!"…”
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