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Affiliation National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

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Mailing Address National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution 950 Independence Avenue SW Washington, D.C. 20560-0708 USA

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Education Ghana

Research Interests Research interests: African art history; museum anthropology; art and ritual; gender; the creativity of work. Associations: African Studies Association; Arts Council of the African Studies Association; College Art Association; American Anthropological Association; American Association of Museums.

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Publications * (Forthcoming 2002) "Contested Terrain: Cultural Negotiation and Ghana's Cape Coast Castle Exhibition, Crossroads of People, Crossroads of Trade." Forthcoming in The Atlantic Slave Trade in African and Diaspora Memory, edited by Ralph Austen. Chapel Hill: Duke University Press. "Objects as Envoys: Introduction." In Objects as Envoys: Cloth, Imagery and Diplomacy in Madagascar (edited by Christine Mullen Kreamer and Sarah Fee). Seattle: University of Washington Press and Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. "We Drink with One Calabash and One Heart: Beer and Pottery Production among the Moba of Northern Togo." Forthcoming, Proceedings from the May 1996 Material Culture Conference, "Fermented and Distilled: The Material Culture of Alcoholic Beverages." Yale University and Smithsonian Institution. 2001 "African Voices: Reflections on Process, Intentions, and Strategies," African Arts 35 (2). Co-authored with Mary Jo Arnoldi and Michael Mason. 2000 "Money, Power and Gender: Some Social and Economic Factors in Moba Male and Female Pottery Traditions (Northern Togo." In Clay and Fire: Pottery in Africa, Christopher D. Roy (editor). Iowa Studies in African Art, Volume IV (pp. 189-212). Iowa City: School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa. 2000 "Mixed Media," The Dictionary of Art. London: MacMillan. (1997) Revised. 2000 "The Art of Togo," The Dictionary of Art. London: MacMillan. (1997) Revised. 1998 "Togo." The Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY. 1997 "African Voices." Museum News (Nov/Dec 1997): 50-55. 1995 "Power and Transformation: Initiation Rites of the Moba (Northern Togo)." Africa 65 (1): 58-78. 1995 Crowning Achievements: African Arts of Dressing the Head. Los Angeles: Regents of the University of California. Co-authored with Mary Jo Arnoldi. 1994 A Life Well Lived: The Coffins of Kane Quaye in Social and Cultural Context. Exhibition catalogue essay. Kansas City: University of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery of Art. 1992 Museums and Communities. Co-edited with Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1992 "Defining Communities Through Exhibiting and Collecting," in Museums and Communities, edited by Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Kreamer, and Steven D. Lavine. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1989 Wild Spirits, Strong Medicine: African Art and the Wilderness. New York: The Center for African Art (co-published with the University of Washington Press, Seattle). Co-authored with Martha Anderson.

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