Sahel : art and empires on the shores of the Sahara

Parallelsachtitel: Art and empires on the shores of the Sahara
1. Verfasser: LaGamma, Alisa , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2020].
Umfang/Format: 303 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour maps ; 29 cm.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.