ACASA Conference: 13th Triennial Symposium on African Art, 04/04

13TH TRIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM ON AFRICAN ART, CAMBRIDGE, BOSTON, AND SALEM,

MASSACHUSETTS (USA) , MARCH 31-APRIL 3, 2004

LISTING OF PANELS

(PRELIMINARY)

SESSION I

Thursday, April 1, 2002; 8:30 - 10:30A.M

African Textiles in Fashion, Art, Trade and Thought Chair: Tavy Aherne (Indiana University, USA)

Rebecca Green (Bowling Green State University, USA) Lambamena: From Malagasy Funeral Textiles to Contemporary Art

Tavy D. Aherne (Indiana University, USA) Taariika Ngara: Histories of Indigo Textiles' Creation and Trade in the Futa Jallon, Guinea

Sarah Lewis (Oxford University, UK)
The Importance of a 'Sankofa' Sensibility: Contemporary West African Textiles on the Art Market

Aids Art: The Visualization of a Southern African Pandemic

Co

chairs: Pamela Allara (Brandeis University, USA); Kyle D. Kauffman (Wellesley College, USA)

Pamela Allara (Brandeis University, USA) Public Words/Personal Narratives: Aids and Activism

Kyle Kauffman (Wellesley College, USA)
Art and Audience: Organizing Exhibitions of Art about Aids

Betty Sibongile Ntshangase (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK)
HIV/AIDS Education Through Traditional Song and Dance in Swaziland

Mark Auslander (Brandeis University, USA) Darkened Mirrors and Transparent Roads: Divinatory Visions of HIV/AIDS

Congo? Carabali?-Images of African Identity in the Diaspora (Part 1) Co-chairs: Judith Bettelheim (San Francisco State University, USA); Kristine Juncker (Columbia University, USA)

Steve Quintana (Boston, USA) and Anna Wexler (Springfield College, USA) The Best Friends of the House: Spiritual Dolls as Ancestral Conduits in the Casa de Obatala

LeGrace Benson, Arts of Haiti Research Project (Ithaca, NY, USA) How African Roots Grow in Haitian Soil: Kreyol Arts in Haiti

Ben Jones (New Jersey City State University, USA) Afro-Cuba Keeps Calling Me

The African Museum in the New Millennium (Part 1) Co-Chairs: Boureima Tiékoroni Diamitani (West African Museum Programme, Dakar, Senegal); Agbenyega Adedze (Illinois State University; USA)

Boureima Tiékoroni Diamitani (West African Museums Programme, Dakar, Senegal) Definitions and Legal Status of Museums in Africa

Agbenyega Adedze (Illinois State University, Normal, USA) A Historical Introduction - the Genesis and Development of Museums in Africa (Private, Community, Specialized, and National Museums) to the Present

Lorna Abungu (Africom, Nairobi, Kenya)
Technology and the African Museum - How Useful Has It Been? Impact of the Information Technology on the Museum, If Any

SESSION II

Thursday, April 1, 2002; 10:45 A.M. - 12:45 P.M

Artists in Contemporary Ethiopia and in the Diaspora Co-chairs: Rebecca Martin Nagy (Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, USA) and Achamyeleh Debela (North Carolina Central University, USA)

Achamyeleh Debela (North Carolina Central University, USA) Skunder Boghossian: A Jewel of a Painter of the 21st Century

Patrick J. Bayens (University of Kentucky, USA) Tadesse Mesfin: Ethiopian Impressions

Neal W. Sobania (Hope College, USA)
Back to the Future (or Painting Both Ways): the Recent Work of a Traditional Artist in the Diaspora

Discussant: Raymond A. Silverman (University of Michigan, USA)

Congo? Carabali?-Images of African Identity in the Diaspora (Part 2) Co-chairs: Judith Bettelheim (San Francisco State University, USA); Kristine Juncker (Columbia University, USA)

Kristine Juncker (Columbia University, USA) Portraits in the Altar: Ancestors in Twentieth Century Espiritismo

Eintou Pearl Springer (Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago) Diaspora African Festivals - Imitation or Evolution: The Case of Two Orisa Festivals in Trinidad and Tobago

Phyllis Galembo (University at Albany, State University of New York, USA) Carnaval Jacmel, Haiti

Crossing Boundaries: Routes of Colonialism in African Art

Co

chairs: Andrea Frohne (Dickenson College, USA); and Onyile Bassey Onyile (Georgia Southern University, USA)

Sarah Getzelman (University of Denver, USA) Reflections in the Mirror: Exploring Western/Congolese Relations through the Art of Trigo Piula

Fadhili Mshana (Georgia College & State University, USA) European Missionaries and Zaramo Artists in Tanzania: A Question of Patronage

Julie L. McGee (Bowdoin College, USA)
"How Can African Artists be African After Picasso?": Seeking Interpellations Beyond the Colonial in South African Art

Patrick Kane (Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA) Beyond the Colonial Paradigm: Modern Egyptian Aesthetic Experience as a Discourse of Social Context

Romuald Tchibozo (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) African Contemporary Art in Western Eyes : Germany's Case from 1950 to Today

The African Museum in the New Millennium (Part 2) Co-Chairs: Boureima Tiékoroni Diamitani (West African Museum Programme, Dakar, Senegal); Agbenyega Adedze (Illinois State University; USA)

Rooksana Omar (South African Museums Association, South Africa) Exhibitions in the African Museum - Policies and Challenges

Merrick Posnanski (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Putting the African Museums into International Perspective

Christine Mullen Kreamer (National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, USA)
Pooling Resources, Strengthening Linkages: Collaborations between African and U.S. Museums

SESSION III

Thursday, April 1, 2002; 2:15 - 4:15 P.M

Africa and the Indian Ocean World: Arts and Identities

Co

chairs: Henry J. Drewal (University of Wisconsin, USA) and Allen Roberts University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Henry J. Drewal (University of Wisconsin, USA) Afro-Indian Performance Arts in Karnataka

William Dewey (University of Tennessee, USA) Africans in India: Worship at the 'Tombs' of Baba Ghor

Prita Meier (Harvard University, USA)
Building Global But Meaning Local: Nineteenth Century Zanzibar Architecture

Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) 'In the Mirror of the Mother': Arts of the Mouride Diaspora in Mauritius

Allen F. Roberts (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) >From Senegal to India via Mauritius: The Arts of an Emerging Spiritual Diaspora

Confluence or Conflict? Two Trends of Contemporary African Art in an International Context
Chair: Sunanda K. Sanyal (The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, USA)

Laurel Birch Aguilar (University of St Andrews, UK) Bridging Worlds: Knowledge, Patronage and Creativity in Contemporary African Art

Sidney L. Kasfir (Emory University, USA) Narrating Modernity : Kenyan Artists and the American Embassy Bombing

Jessica Levin (Harvard University, USA) The Wet Season: Richard Onyango at the 2003 Venice Biennale

Katarzyna Pieprzak (Williams College, USA) Moroccan Rejections and Recuperations of Naïveté in an International Context: A Reading of Abdeslam Boutaleb's "La Peinture naïve au Maroc"

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same? Assessing Change in Postapartheid South African Visual Culture Chair: Dr Liese van der Watt (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Federico Freschi (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) Unity Then and Now: Constructing a New South African Identity in Architectural Ornament - the Lessons of the 1930s

Paula Girshick (Indiana University, USA) National Monuments and the Re-Imagining of the Past in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Joanna Grabski (Denison University, USA) The Dak'Art Biennale and the Premier Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres: Pan-African Exhibitions and Geopolitics in the Global Arena Svea Josephy (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Shifting Notions of Truth and Reality in South African Post-Apartheid Photography

Liese van der Watt (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Performing Identities

Yoruba Popular Arts Worldwide!
Co-Chairs: David T. Doris (University of Michigan, USA); and Elisha P. Renne, (University of Michigan, USA)

Donald Cosentino (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Eshu's Magic Flute

David Doris (University of Michigan, USA) AfroDisney: Fortuitous Convergences and the Redemption of Textile Casualties in Southern Nigeria.

Elisha P. Renne (University of Michigan, USA) Texts/Textiles and the Exchange of Yoruba Engagement Letters

Dana Rush (University of Illinois, USA) Transatlantic Yoruba: Let's Take a Ride on the Âshe/Acè/Achè/Axé Bus Suzanne Blier (Harvard University, USA) Ife's Life Size Copper Portrait Heads: Popular versus Royal

SESSION IV

Friday, April 2, 2002; 8:30 - 10:30 A.M

Documenting Change, Returning to the Field (Part 1) Chair: Christine Mullen Kreamer, (National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, USA)

Jean M. Borgatti (Clark University, USA) The more things change, the more they remain the same Or do they? Research in Nigeria 1973 and 2003

Suzanne Gott (Kansas City Art Institute, USA) Changing Mores in Asante Funeral Displays: "Modernity" as a Resource for Both Sumptuary Restraint and Excess

Polly Richards (School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK) Masques à la mode: Researching Dogon masks at the turn of the millennium

Discussant

David Binkley (National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, USA)

Symbolism Within Historical Performance and Communication of Caribbean Africans
Chair: Gene Emanuel (University of the Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands)

Hollis "Mighty Chalkdust" Liverpool, University of the Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands)
>From the Horses Mouth: Calypsonians' Insights on the Development of Calypso.

Edgar O. Lake (USVI Department of Education, U.S. Virgin Islands) Charles Lindberg's First Visit to an African Community in 1929

Vincent Cooper (University of the Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands) Roots/Crossroutes: Caribbean Immigration Narratives Portrayed in Staged Dance, Song, and Story-telling

Agnes Nicholas (University of the Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands) Virgin Islands Funerals and Weddings: A Comparison of Motifs and Symbols

Gene Emanuel (University of the Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands) The Bonfire Wars: Akan Drums and Ritual in the St. John African Slave Revolution (1733-1734)

The Traditional/Contemporary Conundrum (Part 1) Chair: Barbara Frank (Stony Brook University, USA)

Kinsey Katchka (The Detroit Institute of Arts, USA) Outside the Box: Rethinking Categories of African Art through Context & Practice

Barbara E. Frank (Stony Brook University, USA) Gender Crossings

Odiboh Freeborn (University of Benin, Nigeria) The Creative Reformation of Existing African Traditions: The Iconography of the Abayomi Barber Art School

Sarah Getzelman (University of Denver, USA) Reflections in the Mirror: Exploring Western/Congolese Relations through the Art of Trigo Piula

ROUNDTABLE

Through the Lens and Onto the Screen

Professors and Curators Describe Their Film Making Processes

Chair: Susan Vogel (Prince Street Pictures, New York, USA)

Participants:
Alisa LaGamma (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA) Enid Schildkrout (American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA) Christopher B. Steiner (Connecticut College, USA) Susan Vogel (Prince Street Pictures, New York, USA)

A room will be available to show videos immediately after the roundtable (from 10:45 A.M. - 2:00 P.M.)

SESSION V

Friday, April 2, 2002; 10:45 A.M. - 12:45 P.M.

Documenting Change, Returning to the Field (Part 2) Chair: Christine Mullen Kreamer, (National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, USA)

Nicholas J. Bridger (Archbishop Mitty High School, San Jose CA, USA) Revisiting the Oye-Ekiti Workshop: Africanizing Christian Art and Neo-Traditionalizing Yoruba Art

Perkins Foss (Museum for African Art, New York, USA) Four Decades in Urhobo: from the "Golden Years" to Chaos, and Now, a Cultural Revival

Patrick McNaughton (Indiana University-Bloomington, USA) Two Views of Sidi Ballo: 1978 & 1998

Discussant

Mary Jo Arnoldi (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, USA)

Twenty-First Century
Chair: Reginald Yates (Dance Aid Africa, Ghana)

Kariamu Welsh Asante (Temple University, USA) The Post-Colonial Gaze and African Dance in America

Dominique Cyrille (Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College, USA) The Politics of Quadrille Performance in the French-Caribbean Colonies

Terrence Wendell Brathwaite (Birmingham Centre for Arts Therapy, UK) Cross-Cultural Dance Movement Therapy as a Healing Para-Medical Intervention in the Caribbean from the route of Africa to Trinidad & Tobago's Carnival

Hazel Franco (University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago) Nation Dances of Trinidad and Tobago - the Evolution"

Doris Green (Pan African Arts Performing Arts Preservation Association, Uniondale, NY, USA)
Creating New Roots for African Music/Dance Through Notation

Iconographies of Poverty in Contemporary South African Art Co-chairs: Sandra Klopper (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) and Kim Miller (Transylvania University, USA)

Sandra Klopper (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) Plastic Beads and Recycled Trinkets: Poverty and the Question of Aesthetic Choice in the Production of Ritual Garments in Contemporary South Africa

Michael Godby (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Colour in the Representation of South African Townships by Zwelethu Mthethwa and Chris Ledochowski and the Question of 'Shack Chic'

Juliette Leeb-du Toit (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) Rereading and Contextualizing the Vocabularies of Poverty and Despair in Contemporary Art from KwaZulu-Natal

Diana Wylie (Boston University, USA)
Images of Poverty in the Art of Thami Mnyele

Kim Miller (Tansylvania University, USA) The Importance of Economic Empowerment: Reflections on Income Generation, Visual Representation, and Gender Dynamics at a Women's Artmaking Cooperative in Crossroads, South Africa

The Traditional/Contemporary Conundrum (Part 2) Chair: Barbara Frank (Stony Brook University, USA)

Lara Baker Sedlaczek (University of Kentucky, USA) New Applications of Old Traditions: The "Visual Poetry" of Rachid Koraïchi

Kristina Van Dyke (Harvard University, USA) Speaking Through Another Lens: Rethinking Photography in Oral Cultures

Aimée Bessire (Maine College of Art, USA) Black Superman: Performing the Black Male Body

Alice Burmeister (Winthrop University, USA) Where There Is No Barbie: Muslim Girls and Clay Dolls in Niger

SESSION VI

Friday, April 2, 2002; 2:00 - 4:00 P.M.

Atlantic Rim Performance Arts
Chair: Robert Nicholls (University of the Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands)

Don Hill (State University of New York, USA) African Themes in the Paintings of Canute Caliste (Carriacouan artist)

Wanda Mills-Bocachica (University of the Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands) Roots, Routes, and Legitimacy: Ecological Resistance - Narratives of PlacePiñones, Puerto Rico

Robert Nicholls (University of the Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands) Bull-horned Masquerades in West Africa, West England, and West Indies

John Collins (University of Ghana, Ghana) Trans-Atlantic Linkages in the Emergence of Pan African Popular Culture

Juma Santos (University of Ghana, Ghana) Rhythmic Roots and Branches: Dance Percussion in West Africa and the Americas

Discussant: John Nunley (St. Louis Art Museum, USA)

National Politics and Rural Arts in Contemporary Africa Co-chairs: Ute Röschenthaler (University of Frankfurt, Germany) and Eli Bentor, (Appalachian State University, USA)

Gitti Salami (University of Iowa, USA)
Driving Out Evil Spirits: The 2001 Yakurr Riots And Their Impact On The Celebration Of Saa

Silvia Forni (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy) "The gendarme is what people want". New Figures of Power in a Cameroonian Pottery Tradition

Ute Röschenthaler (University of Frankfurt, Germany) Creating Local Culture: Performance, Boundaries and Politics in the Cross River Region

Discussant: Eli Bentor (Appalachian State University, USA)

Relevant Modernities
Co-Chairs: Erin Haney and Malika Kraamer (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK)

Erin Haney (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK) Esto perpetua (may it live forever)-Short Life and Long Art in Earliest Gold Coast Photography

Malika Kraamer (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK)
'Make me a modern textile': Recent Developments in Ewe Textiles.

John Picton (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK) Modernity then is not the same as modernity now; and modernity there is not the same as modernity here...

Raymond A. Silverman (University of Michigan, USA) Qes Adamu Tesfaw and the Limits of "Modernity. "A Consideration of the Life and Work of a Contemporary Ethiopian Artist

Elizabeth Harney (University of Toronto, USA) Tracing Modernities: Chant Avedissian's Narratives of Egyptian Public Space

Young Scholars Forum: Contemporary Art from Africa and the Diaspora

Chair: Danielle Marie Snoddy (University of Iowa, USA)

Danielle Marie Snoddy (University of Iowa, USA) Speaking in a Transnational Language: The Recent Works of Zineb Sedira

Emma Ross (Yale University, USA)
Aesthetic Experience and Expression: Cultural Memory and Gender Imbalance in Neo-Colonial Chaos

Monique Fowler-Paul (London, UK)
Growing Pains: The Legacy of History, Identity, and Displacement in Contemporary Britain

Elisha Fernandes Simpson (Cambridge, MA, USA) Capeverdeaness: Embracing a Diverse Cultural Identity through Artistic Expressions

Patrick Kane (Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA) Peasant Intifadahs in the Making of Modern Egyptian Arts: The Genre and Context of the Peasant in the New Realism Movement of the Contemporary Arts Group in Egypt

SESSION VII

Saturday, April 3, 2002; 10:30 - 12:30 A.M.

African Architecture: Cultural Translation and Artistic Invention

Chair: Randall Bird (Harvard University, USA)

Mark Hinchman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) House and Household on Gorée Island, 1758-1837

Randall Bird (Harvard University, USA)
The Palace at Soanierana in the Central Highlands of Madagascar, 1820-1830

Mark D. DeLancey (James Madison University, USA) The Spread of the Sooro: Symbols of Rulership in the Sokoto Empire

Dominique Malaquais (Sarah Lawrence College, USA) Thinking Cities, Otherwise

Double Trouble? Representations of Twins and Doubles in African and African American Arts
Chair: Philip M. Peek (Drew University, USA)

Philip M. Peek (Drew University, USA)
Twins, Doubles, and Perfect Knowledge

Pascal James Imperato (SUNY Downstate Medical Center, USA) Children of the Water God: Twins Among the Bamana and Maninka of Mali

Susan Cooksey (Harn Museum, University of Florida, USA) I May Not Be Myself: Doubled Brass Amulet Imagery in Southwestern Burkina Faso

Babatunde Lawal (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA) Ejire: Imagery Of Twoness In Yoruba Art

Marilyn Houlberg (Art Institute of Chicago, USA) 2=3: The Art and Ritual of Twins and the Trickster in Haitian Vodun

Discussant: Frederick Lamp (Yale University Art Museum, USA)

Expanding Diaspora: New Directions in the Study of African Art in

International Contexts
Co-chairs: John Peffer (Northwestern University, USA) and Laurie Ann Farrell (Museum for African Art, New York, USA)

John M. Peffer (Northwestern University, USA) Africa's Diaspora of Images

Sarah Adams (University of Iowa, USA)
The Upa Women Artists' Collective: Artistic Identity between Two Discourses

Allan De Souza (Los Angeles, USA)
Artist's Talk

Steven Nelson (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) What Does a Diasporic Body Look Like?

ROUNDTABLE

Collecting African Art in the 21st Century: Current Practices, New Perspectives and Challenges
Chair: Christraud M. Geary (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA)

Participants:
Herbert Cole (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Andrea Nicolls (National Museum of African Art, USA) Constantine Petridis (Cleveland Museum of Art, USA) Barbara Plankensteiner (Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, Austria) Dorit Shafir (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel) William E. Teel (Marblehead, MA, USA)
Roslyn A. Walker (Dallas Museum of Art, USA) Louis T. Wells (Harvard Business School, USA)

SESSION VIII

Saturday, April 3, 2002; 2:00 - 4:00 P.M.

Africa in Florida: The Aesthetics of the Sunshine State

Chair: Amanda Carlson (University of Hartford, USA)

Joseph M. Murphy (Georgetown University, USA) Crowning the Orisha: A Lucumi Art in South Florida

Ivor Miller (DePaul University, USA)
Abakuá practice and visual arts in Florida: Exiled Members of the Cuban Brotherhood.

Robin Poynor (University of Florida, USA) The Many Faces of Ogun: the Ogun Shrine of Baba Onabamiero Ogunleye in North Central Florida

Amanda Carlson (University of Hartford, USA) >From Masquerades to Amusement Parks: African Realities and Hyper-realities in the Sunshine State

African Style: Negotiating Identities in Global Fashion Markets

Chair: Victoria Rovine (University of Iowa Museum of Art, USA)

Leslie W. Rabine (University of California at Davis, USA) The Biography of a Boubou Between Gift and Commodity

Hudita Mustapha (Emory University, USA) Fashion and the Idea of Africa

Kristyne Loughran (Florence, Italy)
African Fashion on the Global Platform: The Work of Seidnaly Alphadi

Victoria Rovine (University of Iowa Museum of Art, USA) Refashioning Africa: Xuly Bët's Recycled Clothing

Mami watas

The Roots and Routes of African Water Spirit Arts, Beliefs, and Practices (Part 1)

Chair: Martha G. Anderson (Alfred University, USA)

Jill Salmons (Worcester College of Technology, UK) Brass Trays, Shrine Cloths and Cafe Walls - Old and New Representations of Mammy Wata in Coastal West Africa

Charles Gore (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK)
Mami Wata: An Urban Presence or the Making of a Tradition in Benin City, Nigeria

Jessica Joyce Stephenson (Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, USA) Deciphering an Enigma: Possible Roots and Routes for Carvings of Hanuman. Origins and Contexts for Two Images of Hanuman from Nigeria

Discussant: Henry J. Drewal (University of Wisconsin, USA)

New Directions in the Study of Architecture and Symbolic Space Chair: Monica Blackmun Visoná (Metropolitan State College, USA)

Monica Blackmun Visoná (Metropolitan State College of Denver, USA) Physical Space and the Division of Supernatural Power in the Lagoon Region of Côte d'Ivoire

Elizabeth Perrill (Indiana University, USA) Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture: Space, Performance, and Aesthetics

Jeff Fleischer (Lehigh University, USA) Technologies of Self in Swahili Elite Architecture, 1300 - 1900

Neil L. Norman (University of Virginia, USA) Landscapes of Conflict: Ditches, Discord, and Discourse in the Coast Forest of Benin, West Africa

SESSION IX

Saturday, April 3, 2002; 4:15 - 6:15 P.M.

Mami watas

The Roots and Routes of African Water Spirit Arts, Beliefs, and Practices (Part 2)

Chair: Martha G. Anderson (Alfred University, USA)

Rosalinde G. Wilcox (Saddleback College, USA) Mami Wata Among the Water Spirits of Coastal Cameroon

Martha G. Anderson (Alfred University, USA) A Myriad of Mermaids: Mami Watas, Mami Wata, and False Mami Watas in the Niger Delta

Joseph Nevadomsky (California State University, Fullerton, USA) Mammy Wata, Inc.

Discussant: Henry J. Drewal (University of Wisconsin, USA)

Out of Africa: Dress and Identity of Africans Beyond the Continent

Chair: Joanne B. Eicher (University of Minnesota, USA)

Heather Marie Akou (University of Minnesota, USA) The Construction of "African Dress" in Minnesota

Meriem Chida (University of Minnesota, USA) Out of Africa in Africa: What is Tunisian Dress?

Bamidele Agbasegbe Demerson (Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, USA)
A Celebration of Women's Liberation from Bondage: Toward an Ethnography of Dress and Adornment in an Afrobrazilian Festival

Upper Guinea: Past and Present

Chair: Bill Hart (University of Ulster, Ireland)

David Berliner (Harvard University, USA) The Bansonyi Serpentine Headdress: New Data from the Field (Bulongic Country, Guinea, Conakry)

Bill Hart (University of Ulster, Ireland) Ragbenle: A Temne Sodality in Historical Perspective

Labelle Prussin (New York, USA)
Mallam and mu'allemin, dhimmi and dyam

Peter Mark (Wesleyan University, USA)
Two 17th-century Jewish Communities in Senegambia

From: "Michael W. Conner" <mwconner@UIUC.EDU>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:44:06 -0500
From: "Christraud Geary" <cgeary@mfa.org>

Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar