Donald J Cosentino
Biographic Data
| ID | 709453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald J Cosentino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald J |
| FAMILY NAME | Cosentino |
| SIGNATURE | COSENTINO D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Doran Hrothgar Ross Scholar, Trickster, Connoisseur
Has it been duly noted that one of Doran H. Ross's last requests on this globe of sin was for a rum and coke from his home hospice nurse? And that the nurse was a Yoruba from Nigeria who, while happily complying with Mr. Ross's request, would regularly call her mom in London, excitedly telling her all about the Yoruba pop art hanging in Doran's man cave?Unpack that scene of defiance and compliance and you've got the secret of the plot. Doran had …
Mary “Polly” Nooter Roberts 1959–2018
Riding with Death
Oriki for Robert Farris Thompson
When Drewal was invited to write a praise piece for Robert Farris Thompson for this issue celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of African Arts, he soon realized it was beyond his body-mind-heart, because Bob himself is larger than life, a person who has touched and inspired so many folks in so many walks of life and thought. So Drewal contacted his dear friend and colleague C. Daniel Dawson, who may know Bob better than anyone, as well as Bob's i…
Vernacular miracles
Naples is a city run by miracles. Canonical miracles like the thrice-annual liquefaction of San Gennaro's blood, and vernacular miracles, like those effected by the capozzelle, anonymous skulls venerated at Fontanelle, the largest ossuary in Europe. Devotees visited these “little skulls” at the cemetery, cleaned them, adopted them into their families, even had them rebaptized. In return for these favors, the anime pezzentelle (vagabond souls) con…
Marilyn Jensen Houlberg 1939–2012
June 01 2013 Marilyn Jensen Houlberg 1939–2012 Donald Cosentino, Donald Cosentino Donald Cosentino is Professor Emeritus of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA, and curatorial partner with Marilyn Houlberg on “The Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou” (1995–99) and “In Extremis: Death and Life in 21st Century Haitian Art” (2012–14). [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Henry John Drewal, Henry John Drewal He…
Baby on the Blender
Research Article| November 01 2011 Baby on the Blender: A Visual History of Catastrophe in Haiti Donald Cosentino Donald Cosentino Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 134–154. https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1443358 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Donald Cosentino; Baby on the Blender: A Visual History of Catastrophe in Haiti. Small Axe 1 November 2011;…
Exhibition/Catalog Review
The Radiance of the King
September 01 2009 The Radiance of the King Donald Cosentino Donald Cosentino Donald Cosentino is UCLA Professor of World Arts and Cultures and retired co-editor of African Arts. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Donald Cosentino Donald Cosentino is UCLA Professor of World Arts and Cultures and retired co-editor of African Arts. [email protected] Online ISS…
Vodou a way of life
Black Atlantic Religion
Cultural histories of the “black Atlantic,” as Africa and its various diasporas are fashionably called in the academy, are less than 75 years old, but they’ve already established their own orthodoxies. It is Professor Matory’s evident pleasure to skewer many of their perceived truths and to include in his skewering those globalization theorists who suppose transnationalism began with frequent-flyer miles or DirecTV. To them he says, check the tra…
Du c t de chez Scheub
Du cote de chez is a remembrance of the classes taught by Harold Scheub in the early 1970s, at a time when student revolutions on the streets of Madison, Wisconsin, were matched by radically new approaches to the study of oral traditions espoused by Scheub. It is a homage to the brilliant scholar who revealed what wonders lay buried under the misnomer folktales and then crafted a set of critical tools appropriate to the analysis or oral narrative…
Divine Revolution
Vodou in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Bicentennial Blues
Chasing Amy
Africa
Cosentino Replies
A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey
Hip-Hop Assemblage
Organisee en 1997 par le Royal Academy of Arts a Londres, l'exposition Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collections, fut ulterieurement presentee au Brooklyn Museum of Art de New York. L'une des oeuvres exposees, La Vierge Marie, oeuvre hip-hop panafricaine de l'artiste d'origine africaine Chris Ofili, declencha une controverse mobilisant le maire et l'archeveque de la ville, ainsi que l'epouse du President des Etats-Unis. L'util…
Ten Years Dead
Dennis Rodman and the Relic
Doing Vodou
On Looking at a Vodou Altar
want to change your view of altars by telling you a few things about them in Haitian Vodou. Altars happen. Altars must be fed. Altars must be awakened. Altars wax and wane in potency. Altars breathe. Altars tell stories. Altars reveal the state of being of individuals and communities. Altars can be in a bottle, or under your skin, or buried in your yard. They can be hung in the rafters of a house or the limbs of a tree, or they can be placed on t…
Lavilokan
Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers
The domei is a popular narrative art form among the Mende people of Sierra Leone. Although it is a traditional form, the narratives are not remembered or retold, but on each occasion the performers recreate out of a common stock of characters and plots domeisia, which are singular and sometimes brilliant expressions of a singular, and often brilliant, culture. In this book Donald Cosentino presents a large selection of these narratives, as he col…
Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers
Who Is That Fellow in the Many-Colored Cap? Transformations of Eshu in Old and New World Mythologies
I Am Not Myself
Moving with the Face of the Devil
Omnes Cultura Tres Partes Divisa Est
Good art is commercial art”—Andy Warhol I have been asked to comment on the implications of a sector of culture being examined as popular within the typology adopted by Karin Barber to describe cultural strata in contemporary African societies. In order to face her enormous and daunting task (an intellectual call to arms which few other scholars would have had the courage, or the wide ranging intellectual ability, to meet so successfully) Barber …
Vodou Vatican
(1993). Vodou Vatican: A Prolegomenon for Understanding Authority in a Synthetic Religion. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 39, Spiritual Baptists, Shango and other African Derived Religions of the Caribbean, pp. 100-107
Divine Horsepower
Mende Ribaldry
Sixteen Cowries
Lele Gbomba and the Style of Mende Baroque
The Radiance of the King
September 01 2009 The Radiance of the King Donald Cosentino Donald Cosentino Donald Cosentino is UCLA Professor of World Arts and Cultures and retired co-editor of African Arts. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Donald Cosentino Donald Cosentino is UCLA Professor of World Arts and Cultures and retired co-editor of African Arts. [email protected] Online ISS…
Vodou a way of life
Doing Vodou
Lavilokan
Andres Serrano
Spirit and Image
Build Your Own Model of a Hausa Settlement of Northern Nigeria
Lele Gbomba and the Style of Mende Baroque
Aṣa Ibílè Yorùbá
Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers
The domei is a popular narrative art form among the Mende people of Sierra Leone. Although it is a traditional form, the narratives are not remembered or retold, but on each occasion the performers recreate out of a common stock of characters and plots domeisia, which are singular and sometimes brilliant expressions of a singular, and often brilliant, culture. In this book Donald Cosentino presents a large selection of these narratives, as he col…
Mende Ribaldry
Sixteen Cowries
Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers
The Crest and the Hide
Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers
Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers
The domei is a popular narrative art form among the Mende people of Sierra Leone. Although it is a traditional form, the narratives are not remembered or retold, but on each occasion the performers recreate out of a common stock of characters and plots domeisia, which are singular and sometimes brilliant expressions of a singular, and often brilliant, culture. In this book Donald Cosentino presents a large selection of these narratives, as he col…
African Myth and Black Reality in Bahian Carnaval
Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers
I Am Not Myself
The Development of African Drama. Michael Etherton
Flash of the Spirit
The Epic of Son-Jara
Spirit and Image
Who Is That Fellow in the Many-Colored Cap? Transformations of Eshu in Old and New World Mythologies
Omnes Cultura Tres Partes Divisa Est
Good art is commercial art”—Andy Warhol I have been asked to comment on the implications of a sector of culture being examined as popular within the typology adopted by Karin Barber to describe cultural strata in contemporary African societies. In order to face her enormous and daunting task (an intellectual call to arms which few other scholars would have had the courage, or the wide ranging intellectual ability, to meet so successfully) Barber …
Moving with the Face of the Devil
"The Final Word on "Voodoo
"More on "Voodoo
Divine Horsepower
Art on the Road
Andres Serrano
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