LibGuides: ARTD 3128: Arts of Western Africa: Masks and Masquerades

Readings Unit 3

Week 5 – West African Masks and Masquerades, Mali

Sept. 22: Richards “Masques Dogons in a Changing World” and Dieterlen “Masks and Mythology among the Dogon”

Week 6 – West African Masks and Masquerades, Sierra Leone

Week 7 – Film and Midterm Exam

*TAKE-HOME, MIDTERM EXAM DUE SUNDAY, OCT. 11 by 11:59PM

Polly Richards Masques Dogons in a Changing World
Richards, Polly. “Masques Dogons in a Changing World.” African Arts 38, no. 4 (2005): 46–93.
Dieterlen “Masks and Mythology among the Dogon"
Dieterlen, Germaine. “Masks and Mythology among the Dogon.” African Arts 22, no. 3 (May 1, 1989): 34–88. https://doi.org/10.2307/3336777.
McNaughton, Patrick R. “Introduction, ‘The Komo.’”
McNaughton, Patrick R. “Introduction, ‘The Komo.’” In Bamana: The Art of Existence in Mali, edited by Jean-Paul Colleyn and Mary Jo Arnoldi. New York; Zurich; Gent: Museum for African Art ; Museum Rietberg ; Snoek-Ducaju & Zoon, 2001. http://books.google.com/books?id=iB9IAQAAIAAJ.
Colleyn, The Kono, the Ci-Wara
Colleyn, Jean-Paul. “The Kono, the Ci-Wara.” In Bamana: The Art of Existence in Mali, edited by Jean-Paul Colleyn and Mary Jo Arnoldi. New York; Zurich; Gent: Museum for African Art ; Museum Rietberg ; Snoek-Ducaju & Zoon, 2001. http://books.google.com/books?id=iB9IAQAAIAAJ.
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Boone, Intro, Radiance from the Waters
Boone, Sylvia Ardyn. Radiance from the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1986.