Amanda Maples
Domaine de recherche | l'Afrique |
Pays de résidence | États-Unis d'Amérique |
Titre | Graduate Student and Independent Scholar |
Affiliation | University of California, Santa Cruz |
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Adresse | 540 W 8th St
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Téléphone/Télécopie | 919-306-9616 |
Pays de spécialisation | Sierra Leone, Guinea, Senegal, Mali |
Éducation | 09/2017 (expected) University of California Santa Cruz, CA
09/2004 University of Kent Canterbury, UK
07/2001 University of NC at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC
07-08/2001 University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, S. Africa
06/1997 Havelock High School Havelock, NC
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Recherche | performative arts of Africa, history of collecting African art, materiality, visual anthropology, visual studies, representation of the arts of Africa in museums, youth and performance, politics and masked performance |
Publications | The Gelbard Collection of African Postcards, Publisher TBA, (author, forthcoming, 2014) Refined Eye, Passionate Heart: African Art from the Leslie Sacks Collection, Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Skira Publishing (editor and contributor, August, 2013)
Accumulating Histories: African Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT (co-author, May 2012) Dancing with D’mba: Icon of Beauty and Power in West Africa, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT (research and film editing, forthcoming)
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Mots-clés | africa, african art, sierra leone, ode-lay, oje, masked performance, museum representation |