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• Title:Sahel : art and empires on the shores of the Sahara / Alisa LaGamma.
  
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• Variant Title:Art and empires on the shores of the Sahara
  
• Author/Creator:LaGamma, Alisa, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body, host institution.
  
• Published/Created:New York, New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020.
  New Haven ; London : Distributed by Yale University Press
  ©2020
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N7391.65 .L37 2020
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Art objects--Sahel--Exhibitions.
  Art, African--Exhibitions.
  Material culture--Sahel--Exhibitions.
  Sahel--Antiquities--Exhibitions.
  Sahel--Civilization--Exhibitions.
  Sahel--History--Exhibitions.
  
• Genre/Form: Exhibition catalogs.
  Essays.
  Illustrated works.
  
• Description:303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm
  
• Summary:This groundbreaking volume examines the extraordinary artistic and cultural traditions of the African region known as the Sahel ("shore" in Arabic), a vast area on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert that includes present-day Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Chad. This is the first book to present a comprehensive overview of the diverse cultural achievements and traditions of the region, spanning more than 1,300 years from the pre-Islamic period through the 19th century. It features some of the earliest extant art from Africa as well as such iconic works as sculptures by the Dogon and Bamana peoples of Mali. Essays by leading international scholars discuss the art, architecture, archaeology, literature, philosophy, religion, and history of the Sahel, exploring the unique cultural landscape in which these ancient communities flourished. Richly illustrated and brilliantly argued, Sahel brings to life the enduring creativity of the different peoples who lived, traded, and traveled through this crossroads of the world.
  
• Notes:"First printing 2020"--Colophon.
  Catalog of an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January 30-May 10, 2020.
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-293) and index.
  English.
  
• ISBN:9781588396877
  1588396878
  
• Contents:Introduction / Alisa LaGamma
  Local perceptions of early times : odes to Sahelian empires / David C. Conrad
  On the shoreline of history : the state of archaeology in the Sahel / Roderick McIntosh and Mamadou Cissé
  Pre-Islamic artistic patronage / Alisa LaGamma
  Islam in the West African Sahel / Paulo F. de Moraes Farias
  Architecture in focus : four Sahelian landmarks / Giulia Paoletti
  Sahelian diasporas : migrations from ancient Ghana and Mali / Alisa LaGamma
  Collecting the Sahelian past : myth building and primary sources / Yaëlle Biro and Ibrahima Thiaw
  From the rise of Songhay to the fall of Segu / Alisa LaGamma
  Praying for life / Souleymane Bachir Diagne.