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1 avril 2010

Impermanent by Design

likun41 In her introductory essay to the first "Ephemeral Arts" issue cheap pendants African Arts (vol. 42, no. 3), Allyson Purpura (2009) explored the ideas, motivations and outcomes - intentional and unintentional - that inform ephemeral arts with power,...
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1 avril 2010

A History of Israeli Cinema

Several recent Israeli films such as Beaufort, Waltz tiffany note Bashir, and Lebanon have won major film festival awards, but the history of Israeli cinema remains barely known in this country. Raphael Nadjari's documentary is a penetrating personal...
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1 avril 2010

Southern Kuba Initiation Rites

likun41 Kuba political organization, with its complex system of tiffany bracelets, is among the most elaborate in all of Africa. The development of Kuba visual arts was directly tied to the increasing complexity of the political structure during the eighteenth...
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1 avril 2010

Retour d'Angola

likun41 On a splendid hilltop, overlooking the town and lake of silver rings, sits the Museum of Ethnography, a dynamic laboratory/showcase committed to creative exploration of ethnology. Energized by its director, Marc-Olivier Gonseth, and his young...
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1 avril 2010

Traditional Institutions in Kembong

likun41 Hans-Joachim Kolosss two-part article in African Arts on tiffany key (njom, pi. ajom) among the Ejagham (Koloss 1984, 1985), alas published without its accompanying photographs, has long presented the most updated information about esoteric knowledge...
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1 avril 2010

Recolonization of an African Visual Economy

likun41 Aside from the wonders of Photoshopping, what is going on silver key rings? Nothing short of a colonization of the Senegalese visual economy by Chinese interests, in my estimation. Indeed, the oddly altered images of Ahmad ai-Tijani and Amadu...
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1 avril 2010

Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas

likun41 Halfway through her continental victory tour, silver bracelets Wata arrived with great fanfare at the Museum of African Art in "Washington DC, a city newly obsessed with the power of glamour (and the glamour of power). Pulitzer laureate Holland...
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1 avril 2010

Ephemeral Fang Reliquaries

likun41 In major museums worldwide, Fang statuary has come to represent the zenith of African cheap key rings. Until the early 1900s, accomplished Fang artists carved wooden heads and full figures to guard over their ancestors' remains. Attached to baskets...
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1 avril 2010

Ephemerality and the "Unfinished" in Vodun Aesthetics

likun41 Along coastal Bénin, the Vodun religious system cheap cufflinks its associated aesthetics are driven by fluctuation, transformation, and open-endedness.' The continuity of Vodun is dependent upon its ability to remain relevant and effective in...
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1 avril 2010

What Started as a Rival Tong Battle Ended with a Chinese Massacre

likun41 Calle de los Negroes was not a black neighborhood but was named for the levels of vice and tiffany committed there. It lay within the Chinese quarter, native brotherhood associations known as tongs thrived. These had their roots in triads, underground...
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