Mary Jo Arnoldi

Dados Biográficos

ID108065
NOMEMary Jo Arnoldi
PRENOMESMary Jo
SOBRENOMEArnoldi
ASSINATURAARNOLDI M J
AFILIAÇÕESSmithsonian Institution
ORCID0000-0002-2057-9414
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS51
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES135
TOTAL COMO AUTOR51
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1980
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H9

  • Remembering Simon

    Mary Jo ArnoldiARTICLEAfrican Arts2025

    Simon was a colleague, a mentor, and a friend, whose indomitable spirit, sense of humor, and enduring commitment to scholarship and to the communities where he worked in Nigeria and Sierra Leone has always served as an inspiration to me, as no doubt he has for so many others in our field.Simon's research among the Igbo of Nigeria and the Limba of Sierra Leone and his publications on arts and aesthetics are important contributions to the field. Hi…

  • Crowning Achievements

    Mary Jo Arnoldi, Christine Mullen KreamerARTICLEAfrican Arts2022Citada por: 9

    Pour les Africians, le corps, et plus particulierement la tete, possede une force symbolique. La coiffe masculine et feminine traduit l'etat (social, psychique, etc.) de celui qui la porte. Certaines formes ont ete adaptees aux sensibilites et a l'esthetique locales. Divers materiaux, techniques et formes caracterisent ces coiffes qui allient l'esthetique et le pratique dans la vie quotidienne. Des chapeaux spectaculaires existent pour les occasi…

  • The National Museum of Mali, 1960–present

    Mary Jo Arnoldi, Daouda Keita et al.CHAPTERNational Museums in Africa2021

    Mali's National Museum had its origins in 1953 as the colonial museum, Le Musée Soudanais, an archaeological and ethnographic museum. At independence in 1960 Mali nationalized the colonial museum and charged it with collecting, conserving and protecting cultural objects and engaging in heritage education. This essay identifies the ways that the museum's collecting policies and its exhibitions and educational programs have evolved over time and ha…

  • Ndòmò Ritual and Sogo bò Play

    Mary Jo ArnoldiCHAPTERPlayful Performers2017

    The act of masking within Ndomo rituals and in Sogo bo masquerade play inaugurates formal and informal processes that lead to a boy's acquisition of social knowledge of self and others. The very aesthetic judgments rendered about the mastery of expressive skills necessary for successful masquerading are related to wider Bamana concerns for control and mastery of self through the mastery of one's body in every other domain of production. The Sogo …

  • Exhibition Reviews

    Mary Jo ArnoldiARTICLEAfrican Arts2016

    This past May I spent several days at the Venice Biennale, arriving a week after the opening when the crowds had thinned and the art paparazzi had flown away. The exhibition installations were still invitingly fresh (they tend to be a bit dogeared by the end of summer) and it was even possible to move unimpeded through the spaces at the Arsenale and the Giardini.The Biennale elicited a number of mixed reviews—some, like Laura Cumming in the Guard…

  • Warren Leonard d'Azevedo 1920–2014

    Philip M Peek, Mary Jo ArnoldiARTICLEAfrican Arts2014Referências: 1

    December 01 2014 Warren Leonard d'Azevedo 1920–2014 Philip M. Peek, Philip M. Peek Philip M. Peek, Professor Emeritus, Drew University, edited the recently published anthology Twins in African and Diaspora Cultures: Double Trouble, Twice Blessed. He has written extensively on African verbal and visual arts and divination systems. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Mary Jo Arnoldi Mary Jo Arnoldi Mary…

  • Ivan Karp (1943–2011)

    Mary Jo Arnoldi, H Morphy et al.ARTICLEAfrican Arts2012

    June 01 2012 Ivan Karp (1943–2011) Mary Jo Arnoldi, Mary Jo Arnoldi Curator for Africa and chair of the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Howard Morphy, Howard Morphy Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research School of the Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University. [email protected]…

  • African Art and the Colonial Encounter

    Mary Jo ArnoldiARTICLEResearch in African Literatures2009

  • Contested Representations

    Open AccessMary Jo ArnoldiARTICLEMuseum Anthropology2009

  • Bamako, Mali

    Mary Jo ArnoldiARTICLEAfrica Today2007Citada por: 9Referências: 13

    Between 1995 and 2002 more than forty commemorative monuments were built in Bamako, the capital city of Mali. Their number, scale, presence, and placement make them striking additions to the city's built environment. The monument project is associated with the presidency of Alpha Oumar Konaré, an archaeologist and historian. As public sculptures, the monuments are designed to represent a particular vision of good government, patriotism, and citiz…

  • Dara, Mali a Festival of Remembrance and a Celebration of Community

    Cheick Omar Mara, Mary Jo ArnoldiARTICLEAfrican Arts2006

  • Youth Festivals and Museums

    Mary Jo ArnoldiARTICLEAfrica Today2006Citada por: 9Referências: 7

    Public memory practices are essentially political, and in postcolonial Mali, as elsewhere in Africa, the state's cultural agenda have involved a refocusing and revalorizing of the precolonial past through both performance and material culture. In postcolonial Mali, youth festivals and the National Museum are important sites for constructing a national culture. Through the use of different media, each site has marshaled a constellation of historic…

  • Griots at War

    Mary Jo ArnoldiARTICLEAfrican Arts2004

    October 01 2004 Griots at War: Conflict, Conciliation, and Caste in Mande by Barbara G.Hoffman Mary Jo Arnoldi Mary Jo Arnoldi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Mary Jo Arnoldi Online Issn: 1937-2108 Print Issn: 0001-9933 Copyright 2004 Regents of the University of California2004 African Arts (2004) 37 (3): 86–87. https://doi.org/10.1162/afar.2004.37.3.86 Cite Icon Cite Permissions S…

  • Africa

    Monni Adams, Mary Jo Arnoldi et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Symbolically Inscribing the City

    Mary Jo ArnoldiARTICLEAfrican Arts2003Citada por: 13

    Entre 1995 et 2002, plus de vingt-cinq nouveaux monuments publics ont ete eriges a Bamako, la capitale du Mali. Cette initiative de construire des sculptures publiques a ete initiee par le President Alpha Konare apres son election en 1992. Elle marque un effort concerte pour reconfigurer le paysage visuel et symbolique de la ville dans l'imagination populaire. Selon l'A., cette utilisation des monuments publics pour ancrer la memoire nationale re…

  • African Material Culture

    Adria La Violette, Mary Jo Arnoldi et al.ARTICLEAfrican Economic History2001Citada por: 9

  • Reflections on "African Voices" at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History

    Mary Jo Arnoldi, Christine Mullen Kreamer et al.ARTICLEAfrican Arts2001Citada por: 2

    Mary Jo Arnoldi, Christine Mullen Kreamer, Michael Atwood Mason, Reflections on "African Voices" at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, African Arts, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Summer, 2001), pp. 16-35+94

  • Sòmonò Puppet Masquerades in Kirango, Mali

    Susan Vogel, Susan Mullin Vogel et al.ARTICLEAfrican Arts2001

    Presentation et commentaire de photographies sur les mascarades aquatiques organisees sur le fleuve Niger par l'association des jeunes de la communaute de pecheurs somono de Kirango (Mali). L'A. met notamment en relation les photographies realisees par S. Vogel en 1986 avec les materiaux historiques sur les anciennes macarades. Parmi les figures animales les plus importantes de ce theâtre de marionnettes sont notamment le chat sauvage jarawara et…

  • Legends, Sorcerers, and Enchanted Lizards

    Mary Jo Arnoldi, Pascal James ImperatoARTICLEThe International Journal of…2001

  • Africans on Stage

    Mary Jo Arnoldi, Bernth LindforsARTICLEThe American Historical Review2000

    Ethnological show business has a long history in Europe and North America. Africans on Stage shows how those who participated in these ethnological shows helped to shape European and American perceptions of Africans

  • Wild Animals and Heroic Men

    Mary Jo ArnoldiARTICLEResearch in African Literatures2000Referências: 1

    L'A. examine la popularite contemporaine des mascarades Sogo bo executees par les associations de jeunes hommes kamalen ton dans la region de Segou (Mali). Mobilisant l'ensemble des arts traditionnels, verbal et visuels - mascarade, danse, chant, percussion -, l'essentiel du repertoire contemporain des performances masquees met en scene des animaux de la brousse dont les attributs, les croyances et les valeurs associees, sont mis en relation avec…

  • Renewing Tradition

    Mary Jo ArnoldiARTICLEAfrican Arts2000

  • Marionnettes et Masques

    Mary Jo Arnoldi, Olenka Darkowska-Nidzgorski et al.ARTICLEAfrican Arts2000

  • Thinking through and with African objects

    Mary Jo ArnoldiARTICLEReviews in Anthropology2000Referências: 14

    Abiodun, Rowland, Henry J. Drewal, and John Pemberton III, eds. The Yoruba Artist: New Theoretical Perspectives on African Arts Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. 275 pp. including chapter references and glossary. $60.00 cloth. $29.95 paper. Barley, Nigel Smashing Pots: Works of Clay from Africa. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. 168 pp. including chapter references and index. $29.95 paper. Brett-Smith, Sarah …

  • Playing with Time

    Stephen Wooten, Mary Jo ArnoldiARTICLEAfrican Arts1999