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Abimbola, Wande

1975

[as editor]. Yoruba Oral Tradition. With a contribution by Rowland Abiodun. Ile-Ife, Nigeria: Department of African Languages and Literature, University of Ile-Ife.

1976

 

Ifa: An Exposition of Ife Literary Corpus. Ibadan, Nigeria: Oxford University Press.

1977

 

Ifa Divination Poetry. New York: Nok Publishers.

 
Abiodun, Rowland

1981

 

"Ori Divinity: Its Worship, Symbolism and Artistic Manifestation." In Proceedings of the World Conference on Orisa Tradition, pp. 484–515. Ile-Ife, Nigeria: Department of African Languages and Literature, University of Ile-Ife.

1983

 

"Identity and the Artistic Process in the Yoruba Aesthetic Concept of Iwa." Journal of Cultures and Ideas 1, no. 1, pp. 13–30.

1987

 

"Verbal and Visual Metaphors: Mythic Allusions in the Yoruba Aesthetic Concept of Iwa." Word and Image 3, no. 3, pp. 252–701.

  
African Art in Motion

1974

 

African Art in Motion: Icon and Act in the Collection of Katherine Coryton White, by Robert Farris Thompson. Exh. cat. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art.


African Masterpieces

1985

 

African Masterpieces from The Musée de l'Homme, by Susan Vogel and Francine N'Diaye. Exh. cat. New York: Center for African Art.


African Masterpieces

1987

 

African Masterpieces and Selected Works from Munich: The Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, by Maria Keckési. Exh. cat. New York: Center for African Art.


African Reflections

1990

 

African Reflections: Art from Northeastern Zaďre, by Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim. Exh. cat. New York: American Museum of Natural History.


Alldridge, T. J.

1901

 

The Sherbro and Its Hinterland. London: MacMillan.


Areia, M. L. Rodrigues

1985

 

Les symboles divinatoires: Analyse socio-culturelle d'une technique de divination des Cokwe de l'Angola. Coimbra, Portugal: Instituto de Antropologia, Universidade de Coimbra.


The Artist's Eye, the Diviner's Insight

1998

 

The Artist's Eye, the Diviner's Insight: African Art in the Barry D. Maurer Collection, by John Pemberton III. Exh. cat. Amherst, Mass.: Mead Art Museum.


Astonishment and Power

1993

 

Astonishment and Power, by Wyatt MacGaffey. Exh. cat. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.


Bascom, William

1969

 

Ifa Divination: Communication between Gods and Men in West Africa. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press.


Bassani, Ezio

1995

 

"The Ulm Opon Ifa (ca. 1650): A Model for Later Iconography." In The Yoruba Artist: New Theoretical Perspectives on African Arts, edited by Roland Abiodun, Henry J. Drewal, and John Pemberton III, pp. 79–89. Washington, D.C. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press.


Baule

1997

 

Baule: African Art/Western Eyes, by Susan Vogel. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale Art Gallery.


Beads, Body, and Soul

1998

 

Beads, Body, and Soul: Art and Light in the Yorůbá Universe, by Henry John Drewal and John Mason. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.


Black Gods and Kings

1976

 

Black Gods and Kings, by Robert Farris Thompson. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.


Blier, Suzanne Preston

1990

 

"King Glele of Danhomé. Part One: Divination Portraits of a Lion King and Man of Iron." African Arts 23, no. 4, pp. 42–53, 93–94.

1991

 

"King Glele of Danhomé. Part Two: Dynasty and Destiny." African Arts 24, no. 1, pp. 44–55, 101.

1993

 

"Art and Secret Agency: Concealment and Revelation in Artistic Expression." In Secrecy: African Art That Conceals and Reveals, by Mary H. Nooter, pp. 181–94. Exh. cat. New York: Museum for African Art.

1995

 

African Vodun. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

1998

 

The Royal Arts of Africa: The Majesty of Form. New York and London: Harry N. Abrams: Laurence King Publishing.


Bucher, Hubert

1980

 

Spirits and Power: An Analysis of Shona Cosmology. Capetown: Oxford University Press.


Chokwe!

1998

 

Chokwe! Art and Initiation among Chokwe and Related Peoples, edited by Manuel Jordán. Exh. cat. Birmingham, Ala.: Birmingham Museum of Art.


Devisch, René

1985

 

"Perspectives on Divination in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa." In Theoretical Explorations in African Religion, edited by Wim van Binsbergen and Matthew Schoffeleers, pp. 50–83. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

1995

 

"The Slit Drum and the Birth of Divinatory Utterance in the Yaka Milieu." In Objects: Signs of Africa, edited by Luc de Heusch, pp. 97–109. Tervuren, Belgium: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon.


Evans-Pritchard, E. E.

1937

 

Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande. Oxford: Clarendon Press.


Four Moments of the Sun

1981

 

The Four Moments of the Sun: Kongo Art in Two Worlds, by Robert Farris Thompson and Joseph Cornet. Exh. cat. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art.


Glaze, Anita Jean

1981

 

Art and Death in a Senufo Village. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.


Griaule, Marcel

1937

 

"Notes sur la divination par le Chacal." Bulletin du Comité d'Études Historiques et Scientifiques de l'Afrique Occidentale Française 20, nos. 1–2, pp. 113–41.


Guerry, Vincent

1975

 

Life with the Baoulé. Translated by Nora Hodges. Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press.


Hall, H. U.

1938

 

The Sherbro of Sierra Leone. Philadelphia: The University Press, University of Pennsylvania.


Hart, William A.

1984

 

"So-called Minsereh Figures from Sierra Leone." African Arts 18, no. 1, pp. 84–86, 96.


Huffman, Thomas N.

1996

 

Snakes and Crocodiles: Power and Symbolism in Ancient Zimbabwe. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press.


Jacobson-Widding, Anita

1979

 

Red-White-Black as a Mode of Thought: A Study of Triadic Classification by Colours in the Ritual Symbolism and Cognitive Thought of the Peoples of the Lower Congo. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell.


Kings of Africa

1992

 

Kings of Africa: Art and Authority in Central Africa, Collection Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin, edited by Erna Beumers and Hans-Joachim Koloss, and with a contribution by Wyatt MacGaffey. Exh. cat. Berlin: Museum für Völkerkunde.


Koloss, Hans-Joachim

1984

 

"Njom among the Ejagham." African Arts 18, no. 1, pp. 71–73, 90–94.

1985

 

"Obasinjom among the Ejagham." African Arts 18, no. 2, pp. 63–65, 98–101.


Kunst der Senufo

1988

 

Die Kunst der Senufo Museum Rietberg Zürich, by Till Förster. Exh. cat. Zurich: Museum Rietberg.


Kunst und Religion der Lobi

1981

 

Kunst und Religion der Lobi, by Piet Meyer. Exh. cat. Zurich: Museum Rietberg.


Kuper, Hilda

1954

 

"The Shona." In Ethnographic Survey of Africa, edited by Daryll Forde. Southern Africa, part 4: The Shona and Ndebele of Southern Rhodesia, pp. 9–40. London: International African Institute.


Labouret, Henri

1931

 

Les tribus du rameau Lobi. Travaux et Mémoires de l'Institut d'Ethnologie, 15. Paris: Institut d'Ethnologie.

1935

 

"La Divination par les Souris ŕ la Côte d'Ivoire." Bulletin du Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro 8, pp. 4–11.


Legacies of Stone

1997

 

Legacies of Stone: Zimbabwe Past and Present, edited by William J. Dewey and Els De Palmenaer. Exh. cat. Tervuren, Belgium: Africa Museum.


Little, Kenneth Lindsay

1951

 

The Mende of Sierra Leone. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.


MacGaffey, Wyatt

1986

 

Religion and Society in Central Africa: The Bakongo of Lower Zaďre. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

1991

 

[as editor]. Art and Healing of the Bakongo Commented by Themselves. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

1998

 

"'Magic, or As We Usually Say, Art': A Framework for Comparing European and African Art." In The Scramble for Art in Central Africa, edited by Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim, pp. 217–35. New York: Cambridge University Press.


Mack, John

1981

 

"Animal Representations in Kuba Art: An Anthropological Interpretation." Oxford Art Journal 4, no. 2, pp. 50–56.

1986

 

Madagascar: Island of the Ancestors. London: British Museum.


McNaughton, Patrick R.

1988

 

The Mande Blacksmiths: Knowledge, Power, and Art in West Africa. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.


Memory

1996

 

Memory: Luba Art and the Making of History, edited by Mary Nooter Roberts and Allen F. Roberts and with contributions by S. Terry Childs, Pierre de Maret, and William J. Dewey. Exh. cat. New York: Museum for African Art.


Meyer, Piet

1981a

 

"Art et religion des Lobis." Arts d'Afrique Noire 39, pp. 16–22.

1981b

 

Cat. entry no. 13 in For Spirits and Kings: African Art from the Paul and Ruth Tishman Collection, edited by Susan M. Vogel, pp. 30–31. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.


Nooter, Mary H.

1991

 

"Luba Art and State Formation: Deconstructing Power in a Central African Polity." Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University.


Peek, Philip M. (ed.)

1991

 

African Divination Systems: Ways of Knowing. With contributions by René Devisch, Piet Meyer, Rosalind Shaw, Pierre Vérin, and Narivelo Rajasonarimanana. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.


Pemberton, John, III (ed.)

2000

 

Insight and Artistry in African Divination: A Cross-Cultural Study. With contributions by Louis Brenner, René Devisch, Lorenz Homberger, Manuel Jordán, John Mack, Allen F. Roberts, Mary Nooter Roberts, and Z. S. Strother. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.


Perspectives

1987

 

Perspectives: Angles on African Art, by James Baldwin, Romare Bearden, et al., with an Introduction by Susan Vogel. Exh. cat. New York: Center for African Art.


Petit, Pierre

1995

 

"The Sacred Kaolin and the Bowl-bearers (Luba of Shaba)." In Objects: Signs of Africa, edited by Luc de Heusch, pp. 111–31. Tervuren, Belgium: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon.


Petridis, Constantine

1997

 

"Of Mothers and Sorcerers: A Luluwa Maternity Figure." In African Art at The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Studies 23, no. 2, pp. 182–95, 198–200. Art Institute of Chicago.


Royal Art of Benin

1992

 

Royal Art of Benin: The Perls Collection, by Kate Ezra. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.


Söderberg, Bertil

1966

 

"Antelope Horn Whistles with Sculptures from the Lower Congo." Ethnos 31, pp. 5–33.


Thompson, Robert Farris

1978

 

"The Grand Detroit N'Kondi." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 56, no. 4, pp. 206–21.


Torday, Emil

1925

 

On the Trail of the Bushongo. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott.


Torday, Emil, and T. A. Joyce

1910

 

Notes ethnographiques sur les peuples communément appelés Bakuba, ainsi que sur les peuplades apparentées: Les Bushongo. Brussels: Annales du Musée du Congo Belge.


Turner, Victor

1975

 

Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.


Vansina, Jan

1978

 

The Children of Woot. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

1990

 

Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.


Veirman, Anja

1996

 

"Art and Conflict Management: Bush Spirits as Mediators and Source of Inspiration in the Art of the Senufo." In The Object as Mediator, edited by Mireille Holsbeke, pp. 145–64. Exh. cat. Antwerp: Ethnografisch Museum.

Yoruba

1989

 

Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, by Henry John Drewal, John Pemberton III, and Rowland Abiodun. Exh. cat. New York: Center for African Art.


Yoruba Art and Aesthetics

1991

 

Yoruba Art and Aesthetics, by Rowland Abiodun, Henry John Drewal, and John Pemberton III, edited by Lorenz Homberger. Exh. cat. New York and Zurich: Center for African Art and Museum Rietberg.

     

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