Amanda Carlson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5455815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Carlson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Carlson |
| SIGNATURE | CARLSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Contemporary Art |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Carnival in Africa
Tourism-fueled economies in Africa and the travel industry produce photo-rich websites with seductive, color-saturated images that draw people to fabulous carnivals across the continent. These industries have vastly outpaced scholarly documentation of carnivals in Africa, which are often assumed to be an isolated and recent phenomenon, but in fact exist in all corners of the continent— Morocco, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leo…
In the Spirit and in the Flesh
all photos by the author except where otherwise notedThe Cross River, which begins in the Cameroon mountains and rolls west and then south toward the Nigerian coast, has provided a fertile climate for ritual systems and masquerades that has been amplified in part due to centuries of intense trade in agricultural products, foreign goods, and humans (Fig. 1). Prior to road travel, the Cross River acted like an umbilical cord connecting hinterland t…
Lalla Essaydi
Calabar Carnival
December 01 2010 Calabar Carnival: A Trinidadian Tradition Returns to Africa Amanda B. Carlson Amanda B. Carlson Amanda Carlson is Assistant Professor of Art History at University of Hartford in Connecticut. Over the past two decades, her research in Cross River State (Nigeria) has focused on the ideographic form of writing known as nsibidi. She also researches and writes about a broad set of topics associated with African art and culture: gender…
In and out of Focus
Women's Masquerade Issue
African Studies Association Meeting, 1993
In and out of Focus
Calabar Carnival
December 01 2010 Calabar Carnival: A Trinidadian Tradition Returns to Africa Amanda B. Carlson Amanda B. Carlson Amanda Carlson is Assistant Professor of Art History at University of Hartford in Connecticut. Over the past two decades, her research in Cross River State (Nigeria) has focused on the ideographic form of writing known as nsibidi. She also researches and writes about a broad set of topics associated with African art and culture: gender…
In the Spirit and in the Flesh
all photos by the author except where otherwise notedThe Cross River, which begins in the Cameroon mountains and rolls west and then south toward the Nigerian coast, has provided a fertile climate for ritual systems and masquerades that has been amplified in part due to centuries of intense trade in agricultural products, foreign goods, and humans (Fig. 1). Prior to road travel, the Cross River acted like an umbilical cord connecting hinterland t…
African Studies Association Meeting, 1993
Women's Masquerade Issue
In and out of Focus
Calabar Carnival
December 01 2010 Calabar Carnival: A Trinidadian Tradition Returns to Africa Amanda B. Carlson Amanda B. Carlson Amanda Carlson is Assistant Professor of Art History at University of Hartford in Connecticut. Over the past two decades, her research in Cross River State (Nigeria) has focused on the ideographic form of writing known as nsibidi. She also researches and writes about a broad set of topics associated with African art and culture: gender…
Lalla Essaydi
In the Spirit and in the Flesh
all photos by the author except where otherwise notedThe Cross River, which begins in the Cameroon mountains and rolls west and then south toward the Nigerian coast, has provided a fertile climate for ritual systems and masquerades that has been amplified in part due to centuries of intense trade in agricultural products, foreign goods, and humans (Fig. 1). Prior to road travel, the Cross River acted like an umbilical cord connecting hinterland t…
Carnival in Africa
Tourism-fueled economies in Africa and the travel industry produce photo-rich websites with seductive, color-saturated images that draw people to fabulous carnivals across the continent. These industries have vastly outpaced scholarly documentation of carnivals in Africa, which are often assumed to be an isolated and recent phenomenon, but in fact exist in all corners of the continent— Morocco, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leo…
Art (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · African art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · African history and culture analysis (1 works)