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consequences of the other: before the ship came in

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Dave

The first contact between white explorers and native peoples is a fascinating moment, and it seems to have followed roughly the same pattern wherever it occurred. Naturally, the local was bewildered. Lips, the author of “The Savage Hits Back” was … Continue reading →

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tada: ife styles

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Dave

Perhaps the extraordinary work of art ever to see the light in Africa is the seated figure below, first reported in 1921 in Tada,an obscure village on the banks of the Middle Niger. Together with a number of other sculptures, … Continue reading →

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nok culture: nok, nok, who’s there? yoruba! yoruba who?

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Dave

A common stock of philosophical and metaphysical speculation and belief. An internal coherence , secret wisdom and apprehension of realities equal to what the white man conceives themselves to have attained… If we look at the courtly arts of Ife … Continue reading →

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the ancient and elaborate

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Dave

The cultures of the African continent was historically, erroneously and conventionally believed to be the product of a more or less timeless and primitive innocence, possessing value chiefly as tributes to spontaneous emotion or as objects of art that were … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged benin bronze statues, Benin bronzes, benin ivory masks, Edo village chiefs Benin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Tomb of Huy, tomb of huy-amenhotep | Leave a comment

aches and ills of the ancients

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Dave

The ills of ancient humans, traced in their bones and art, tells us how they lived and died and provides a link from their world to ours. … Disease never seems to arise haphazardly. It usually reflects the circumstances of … Continue reading →