You think you know who you are, but you don’t. You create yourself from moment to moment, changing your identity or inventing a new one according to situational context. Identity is a shifting ...
French President Emmanuel Macron’s pledge to return African artefacts is an “awesome challenge”, according to Stéphane Martin, the president of the ethnographic Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum in ...
As the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association, the quarterly journal African American Review promotes a lively exchange among ...
Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde, Bd. 33, European Sources for Sub-Saharan Africa Before 1900: Use and Abuse (1987), pp. 433-444 (12 pages) ...
Davison challenges the conventional museological division between cultural history and ethnography, particularly as it has historically been applied in museum practice in South Africa. As an ...
Boyle Heights has long been known as a bonafide taco hot spot, the Mexican American neighborhood is home to many of Los Angeles’ most notable tacos: Mariscos Jalisco, Guisados and Los Cinco Puntos ...
Reviewed by Urte Undine Frömming in Africa (London) 83 (4) November 2013, pages 697-700. (DT1.A1 A258 AFA). Reviewed by Drew Thompson in African studies review (Piscataway, NJ) 57 (3) December 2014, ...
A German couple goes on a honeymoon to East Africa and return with hundreds of objects, including everyday items, jewelry, musical instruments and tools. This collection is now stored in the ...
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been fuelled in part by local reactions to the crisis. Sharon Abramowitz, a medical anthropologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville who is an expert on ...