The Resonance of Osun across a Millennium of Lower Niger History
Peek and Picton offer an investigation of copper alloy works from the Lower Niger that demonstrate the extraordinary creativity and aesthetic power. These bell heads and their fantastic imagery have encouraged people to take a multidisciplinary approach, a synthesis that allows them to draw conclusi...
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Veröffentlicht in: | African arts 2016-03, Vol.49 (1), p.40-55 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Peek and Picton offer an investigation of copper alloy works from the Lower Niger that demonstrate the extraordinary creativity and aesthetic power. These bell heads and their fantastic imagery have encouraged people to take a multidisciplinary approach, a synthesis that allows them to draw conclusions about the dating of these works and about the persistence of particular ways of thinking as embodied in ritual practices though several hundred years. Specifically, they investigate that period in sub-Saharan Africa from the inception of an art making use of copper and its alloys to the entry of coastal West Africa and its hinterlands into the Atlantic sea trade from the late 15th century onwards. |
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ISSN: | 0001-9933 1937-2108 |
DOI: | 10.1162/AFAR_a_00269 |