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The legacy of Mesoamerica : history and culture of a Native American civilization / [edited by] Robert M. Carmack, Janine Gasco, Gary H. Gossen with contributions from George A. Broadwell [and others]

Author:
Carmack, Robert M. 1934-  Search this
Gasco, Janine  Search this
Gossen, Gary H  Search this
Physical description:
xvii, 494 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
Mexico
Central America
Date:
1996
©1996
Topic:
History  Search this
Civilization  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1089448

The life and afterlife of Yaa Asantewaa / T. C. McCaskie

Author:
McCaskie, T. C  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Yaa Asantewaa 1832?-1921  Search this
Yaa Asantewaa 1832?-1921 Genealogy  Search this
Yaa Asantewaa 1832?-1921 Centennial celebrations, etc.  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Ghana
Date:
2007
Topic:
Women heroes  Search this
Kings and rulers  Search this
Politics and culture--Ghana  Search this
Call number:
DT1.A1 A258
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1090142

All those strangers : the art and lives of James Baldwin / Douglas Field

Author:
Field, Douglas 1974-  Search this
Subject:
Baldwin, James 1924-1987 Political and social views  Search this
Physical description:
x, 220 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
United States
Date:
2015
20th century
Topic:
Politics and literature--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1082890

Witchcraft renaissance : the paradox of sorcery and Christianity among the Botswana, 1849-2008 / Christian John Makgala and Disang Chaa Monkge

Author:
Makgala, Christian John  Search this
Monkge, Disang Chaa  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Botswana
Date:
2011
Topic:
Witchcraft  Search this
Politics and culture  Search this
Christianity and other religions  Search this
Tswana witchcraft  Search this
Call number:
DT790 .B749
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1063690

Subversion of socialist realist theatre and the rise of post-realist theatre in Zimbabwe, 1980-1996 / Samuel Ravengai

Author:
Ravengai, Samuel  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Zimbabwe
Date:
2015
20th century
Topic:
Theater--History  Search this
Theater--Finance  Search this
Political plays, Zimbabwean  Search this
Zimbabwean drama (English)--History and criticism  Search this
Social realism in literature  Search this
Politics and culture  Search this
Cultural policy  Search this
Call number:
P92.S58 C74X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1065601

The politics of mourning : death and honor in Arlington National Cemetery / Micki McElya

Author:
McElya, Micki 1972-  Search this
Subject:
Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington, Va.) History  Search this
Physical description:
395 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
Virginia
Arlington
United States
Date:
2016
Topic:
National cemeteries--History  Search this
Nationalism--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1068904

Institutional attitudes : instituting art in a flat world / Pascal Gielen (ed.)

Title:
Instituting art in a flat world
Editor:
Gielen, Pascal  Search this
Author:
Gielen, Pascal Institutional imagination  Search this
Physical description:
262 pages ; 21 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2013
Topic:
Arts and society  Search this
Arts--Philosophy  Search this
Arts and revolutions  Search this
Politics and culture  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1110747

Die koloniale Ordnung des Raums dekonstruieren : = Deconstructing the colonial organisation of space / Sammy Baloji

Title:
Deconstructing the colonial organisation of space
Author:
Baloji, Sammy  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Date:
2019
Topic:
Painting, Congolese (Democratic Republic)  Search this
Artists  Search this
Politics and culture  Search this
Call number:
ND1099.C6 C66 2019
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1114077

Women photographers and feminist aesthetics / Claire Raymond

Author:
Raymond, Claire 1967-  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 241 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Type:
Biography
Date:
2017
Topic:
Women photographers  Search this
Photographers  Search this
Photography--Philosophy  Search this
Photography, Artistic  Search this
Feminist theory  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1096828

The roles of the griot in the future of Mali : a twenty-first-century institutionalization of a thirteenth-century traditional institution / Barbara G. Hoffman

Author:
Hoffman, Barbara G  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
RECOTRADE  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Mali
Date:
2017
21st century
Topic:
Griots  Search this
Griots--Societies, etc  Search this
Conflict management  Search this
Politics and culture  Search this
Call number:
DT1.A1 A26
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1085627

The Art and Liberty group : rupture, war and Surrealism in Egypt (1938-1948) / Sam Bardaouil

Author:
Bardaouil, Sam  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Art et Liberté (Artists' group)  Search this
Jamʻīyat Muḥibbī al-Funūn al-Jamīlah (Cairo, Egypt)  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Egypt
Cairo
Date:
2016
Topic:
Surrealist artists  Search this
Surrealism  Search this
Politics and culture  Search this
Call number:
N7381.75.S97 A78 2016
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1086619

Gyamfi's golden soap : commodity marketing, reform legitimation, and the performance of cultural authenticity in Ghana's popular theatre / David Afriyie Donkor

Author:
Donkor, David Afriyie  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Ghana National Theatre Corporation  Search this
Unilever Ghana  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Ghana
Date:
2010
Topic:
Soap--Marketing  Search this
Advertising--Soap  Search this
Golden Stool in literature  Search this
Ghanaian drama--Stories, plots, etc  Search this
Product placement in mass media  Search this
Politics and culture  Search this
Call number:
DT509.97 .G436
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1067993

Patrimoine culturel et identité nationale : construction historique d'une notion au Sénégal / Adama Djigo

Author:
Djigo, Adama  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Senegal
Date:
2015
Topic:
Politics and culture  Search this
Nationalism  Search this
Cultural property--Protection  Search this
Cultural policy  Search this
Call number:
DT1 .S678
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1075141

Clinging to mammy : the faithful slave in twentieth-century America / Micki McElya

Author:
McElya, Micki 1972-  Search this
Subject:
Jemima Aunt  Search this
Physical description:
322 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
United States
Date:
2007
20th century
Topic:
African American women in popular culture--History  Search this
African Americans in popular culture--History  Search this
Women slaves--History  Search this
Slavery--History  Search this
African American women--History  Search this
Racism in popular culture--History  Search this
Stereotypes (Social psychology)  Search this
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in advertising  Search this
Race relations  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1077586

Travel & see : Black diaspora art practices since the 1980s / Kobena Mercer

Title:
Travel and see
Author:
Mercer, Kobena 1960-,-  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 368 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Date:
2016
Topic:
Art, Black--History and criticism  Search this
Race in art  Search this
Ethnicity in art  Search this
African diaspora in art  Search this
Art and globalization  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1063226

Jefferson and the Virginians : democracy, constitutions, and empire / Peter S. Onuf

Author:
Onuf, Peter S.  Search this
Subject:
Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Political and social views  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 194 pages ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
Virginia
Date:
2018
1775-1865
Topic:
Statesmen--History  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1103266

Music at war : reggae musicians as political actors in the Ivoirian crisis / Anne Schumann

Author:
Schumann, Anne  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Houphouët-Boigny, Félix 1905-1993  Search this
Blondy, Alpha 1953-  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Côte d'Ivoire
Date:
2015
Topic:
Reggae music  Search this
Reggae musicians  Search this
Protest songs  Search this
Politics and culture  Search this
Call number:
PL8000.A1 A253
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1110373

Risky dialogues : the performative state and the nature of power in a postcolony / Wendy Willems

Author:
Willems, Wendy  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Zimbabwe
Date:
2015
Topic:
Music--Political aspects  Search this
Musicians  Search this
Politics and culture  Search this
Call number:
PL8000.A1 A253
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1110374

Youth power : villages, festivals, and rivals / Paolo Israel

Author:
Israel, Paolo  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Mozambique
Date:
2014
Topic:
Makonde masquerade performance  Search this
Mapiko (Masquerade)  Search this
Dance festivals  Search this
Songs, Makonde  Search this
Politics and culture  Search this
Cultural policy  Search this
Call number:
PN3000.M85 I87 2014
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1087733

Theatre in combat with violence : the University of Zimbabwe Department of Theatre Arts and Amani Trust traveling theatre project on political violence and torture / Owen Seda and Nehemiah Chivandikwa

Author:
Seda, Owen  Search this
Chivandikwa, Nehemiah  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Amani Trust  Search this
University of Zimbabwe Department of Theatre Arts  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Zimbabwe
Date:
2013
Topic:
Traveling theater  Search this
Theater--Political aspects  Search this
Theater in community development  Search this
Violence  Search this
Politics and culture  Search this
Call number:
RC489.A7 A78 2013
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1088513

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