Rhoda Woets
Biographic Data
| ID | 1610045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rhoda Woets |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rhoda |
| FAMILY NAME | Woets |
| SIGNATURE | WOETS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Contemporary Art |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Engaging with the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Catholic Ghana
Pictures of the Sacred Heart strike a chord with millions of Catholics over the world, and have even gained popularity beyond the Catholic domain. Posters, stickers and paintings of Jesus’s Sacred
The commodification of ethnicity
In this article, we position ethnicity at the heart of the marketplace in contributing to a more complex and multifaceted understanding of identity formation and commodification. We approach the commodification of ethnicity on two, interconnected levels in a globalizing world of fashion. We unravel the designs and discourses of the corporate company and textile producer Vlisco, based in the Netherlands, as well as the practices and ideas of fashi…
This is What Makes Sirigu Unique”
December 01 2014 "This is What Makes Sirigu Unique": Authenticating Canvas and Wall Paintings in (Inter)national Circuits of Value and Meaning Rhoda Woets Rhoda Woets Rhoda Woets is a cultural anthropologist who completed her PhD in 2011 at the VU University in Amsterdam. Her dissertation is entitled "'What Is This?' Framing Ghanaian Art from the Colonial Encounter to the Present." It explores at the underlying ideological premises and contestati…
The Recreation of Modern and African Art at Achimota School in the Gold Coast (1927–52)
The formative influence of colonial art education on modern art movements in Africa has not attracted a great deal of scholarly attention. Yet, European art teachers in the Gold Coast challenged colonial prejudice that Africans were incapable of mastering European aesthetic forms. This article analyses the art education provided at the Teacher Training College at Achimota School where pupils learned both to revalue African art forms and to draw a…
Comprehend the Incomprehensible
September 01 2010 Comprehend the Incomprehensible: Kofi Setordji's Travelling Memorial of the Rwanda Genocide Rhoda Woets Rhoda Woets Rhoda Woets is a PhD student at the Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the VU University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the influence of globalization on contemporary artists in Ghana. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author…
The Recreation of Modern and African Art at Achimota School in the Gold Coast (1927–52)
The formative influence of colonial art education on modern art movements in Africa has not attracted a great deal of scholarly attention. Yet, European art teachers in the Gold Coast challenged colonial prejudice that Africans were incapable of mastering European aesthetic forms. This article analyses the art education provided at the Teacher Training College at Achimota School where pupils learned both to revalue African art forms and to draw a…
The commodification of ethnicity
In this article, we position ethnicity at the heart of the marketplace in contributing to a more complex and multifaceted understanding of identity formation and commodification. We approach the commodification of ethnicity on two, interconnected levels in a globalizing world of fashion. We unravel the designs and discourses of the corporate company and textile producer Vlisco, based in the Netherlands, as well as the practices and ideas of fashi…
Engaging with the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Catholic Ghana
Pictures of the Sacred Heart strike a chord with millions of Catholics over the world, and have even gained popularity beyond the Catholic domain. Posters, stickers and paintings of Jesus’s Sacred
Comprehend the Incomprehensible
September 01 2010 Comprehend the Incomprehensible: Kofi Setordji's Travelling Memorial of the Rwanda Genocide Rhoda Woets Rhoda Woets Rhoda Woets is a PhD student at the Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the VU University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the influence of globalization on contemporary artists in Ghana. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author…
This is What Makes Sirigu Unique”
December 01 2014 "This is What Makes Sirigu Unique": Authenticating Canvas and Wall Paintings in (Inter)national Circuits of Value and Meaning Rhoda Woets Rhoda Woets Rhoda Woets is a cultural anthropologist who completed her PhD in 2011 at the VU University in Amsterdam. Her dissertation is entitled "'What Is This?' Framing Ghanaian Art from the Colonial Encounter to the Present." It explores at the underlying ideological premises and contestati…
The Recreation of Modern and African Art at Achimota School in the Gold Coast (1927–52)
The formative influence of colonial art education on modern art movements in Africa has not attracted a great deal of scholarly attention. Yet, European art teachers in the Gold Coast challenged colonial prejudice that Africans were incapable of mastering European aesthetic forms. This article analyses the art education provided at the Teacher Training College at Achimota School where pupils learned both to revalue African art forms and to draw a…
The commodification of ethnicity
In this article, we position ethnicity at the heart of the marketplace in contributing to a more complex and multifaceted understanding of identity formation and commodification. We approach the commodification of ethnicity on two, interconnected levels in a globalizing world of fashion. We unravel the designs and discourses of the corporate company and textile producer Vlisco, based in the Netherlands, as well as the practices and ideas of fashi…
Engaging with the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Catholic Ghana
Pictures of the Sacred Heart strike a chord with millions of Catholics over the world, and have even gained popularity beyond the Catholic domain. Posters, stickers and paintings of Jesus’s Sacred
Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · The arts (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works)