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WN 2013
Afroamerican & African Studies
AAS 224 - African Visual Cultures: Akan/Kongo/Yoruba
Section 001
Credits: 3
Waitlist Capacity: 99
Consent: With permission of instructor.
Repeatability: May not be repeated for credit.
Cross-Listed Classes:
HISTART 224 - Akan/Kongo/Yoruba, Section 001
Primary Instructor: Doris,David T

 
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This course introduces a broad range of perspectives on African visual cultures by focusing on three cultural groups: the Akan, the Yoruba and the Kongo. Lecture and discussion topics are thematic and cross-cultural, examining the visual image in contexts before, during, and after European colonialism as well as in Diasporic transformations.
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Textbooks/Other Materials (data maintained by department in Wolverine Access)
ISBN: 0061999903 On Writing Well The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, 35th Anniversary Edition., Publisher: Harpercollins 2011
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ISBN: 0295990732 Vigilant things : on thieves, Yoruba anti-aesthetics, and the strange fates of ordinary objects in Nigeria, Author: Doris, David Todd., Publisher: University of Washington Press 2011
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