Simon Ottenberg

• Thirty Years of Fieldnotes

  Simon Ottenberg, Roger Sanjek•CHAPTER•Fieldnotes•2019

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• Playful Performers

  David Binkley, Simon Ottenberg et al.•BOOK•Playful Performers•2017

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• Introduction

  Simon Ottenberg, David A Binkley•CHAPTER•Playful Performers•2017

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  African children's masquerades are often simpler than adult ones, in the quality of the masks and dress, the dance and music, and the length of their performances. Children's pre-initiation masking, particularly if it involves emulating adult masking forms, or taking part in adult rituals, assists the youths to understand something of the traditions and history of their culture. The acquisition of masquerade knowledge and performance skills in ch…

• African Art Studies

  Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•African Arts•2013•Citada por: 1

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  December 01 2013 African Art Studies: Are They No Longer Taking the Paths Less Traveled? Simon Ottenberg Simon Ottenberg Simon Ottenberg is Emeritus Professor, University of Washington, Seattle. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Simon Ottenberg Simon Ottenberg is Emeritus Professor, University of Washington, Seattle. [email protected] Online ISSN: 1937-210…

• Objects from a Colonial War

  Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•African Arts•2012•Referências: 13

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  June 01 2012 Objects from a Colonial War: The Dyer Collection Simon Ottenberg Simon Ottenberg Emeritus Professor, Anthropology, University of Washington and author of Masked Rituals of Afikpo (1975) and three other books on the Afikpo of southeastern Nigeria. He has carried out research on the Limba of northern Sierra Leone and studies of modern African artists in southeastern Nigeria and in Sierra Leone. [email protected] Search for other w…

• Two Renowned Nigerian Scholars

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Dialectical Anthropology•2007

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• Decorated Hu Ronko Shirts from Northern Sierra Leone

  Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•African Arts•2007•Referências: 8

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  December 01 2007 Decorated Hu Ronko Shirts from Northern Sierra Leone: Birth, Life, and Decline Simon Ottenberg Simon Ottenberg Simon Ottenberg carried out field research at Wara Wara Bafodea Chiefdom in 1978–80 and is the author of numerous articles and a book growing out of that work: Seeing with Music: The Lives of Three Blind African Musicians (University of Washington Press, 1996). He has also published extensively on the traditional and con…

• African Art and Culture in Maine

  Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•African Arts•2006

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• Nwando Achebe. Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•African Studies Review•2006

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  Nwando Achebe. Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings: Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland, 1900–1960. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2005. Glossary. Index. Bibliography. No price reported. Paper. - Volume 49 Issue 3

• The art of fieldwork - Harry F. Wolcott

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•2006

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• Books

  Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•African Arts•2005•Citada por: 6

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• Frans M. Olbrechts

  Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•African Arts•2004•Citada por: 1

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• Africa

  David Binkley, Simon Ottenberg•CHAPTER•2003

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• The Nsukka Artists and Nigerian Contemporary Art

  Michael D Harris, Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•2003

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• Seeing with Music

  Eric Charry, Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•African Studies Review•2003•Citada por: 1

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  Concepts -- The setting -- Sayo Kamara -- Muctaru Mansaray -- Marehu Mansaray The world of three kututeng musicians

• Sources and Themes in the Art of Obiora Udechukwu

  Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•African Arts•2002•Citada por: 4

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  L'A. presente et commente le parcours artistique et l'oeuvre de Obiora Udechukwu, l'un des artistes contemporains les plus reputes du Nigeria et faisant partie de la generation d'artistes influences par Uche Okeke, Bruce Onobrakpeya, et Solomon Irein Wangboje. Marque tant par la culture rurale igbo traditionnelle que par la culture urbaine d'Onitsha, Obiora Udechukwu est un artiste visuel, un poete, un enseignant et un critique d'art, un organisa…

• Seeing with Music

  Ruth Finnegan, Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Africa•2001•Citada por: 1

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• Dancing Histories

  Simon Ottenberg, John C Mccall•ARTICLE•African Studies Review•2000

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• New Traditions from Nigeria

  John Peffer-Engels, Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•African Arts•1999

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• Seeing with Music

  Martin Stokes, Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•1999•Citada por: 3

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• Playing on the Mother-Ground

  Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological Research•1998

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• Playing with Time

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•1998•Citada por: 1

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  Playing with Time: Art and Performance in Central Mali. MARY JO ARNOLDI. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995, xxiv + 224 pp., 92 b&w photos, 20 color plates, tables, map, glossary, bibliography, notes

• African Rhythm

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1997•Citada por: 1

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  African Rhythm:. Northern Ewe Perspective. Kofi Agawu. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 217 pp

• African Vodun

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Museum Anthropology•1995•Citada por: 6

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  African Vodun: Art, Psychology, and Power. Suzanne Preston Blier. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. xii. 476 pp.,. color illus., 165 b/w illus. (including. maps), appendix, bibliography, index. $50.00 (cloth

• Anthropology, Art, and Aesthetics

  Simon Ottenberg•REVIEW•African Arts•1995

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• Population and Political Systems in Tropical Africa

  Simon Ottenberg, Robert F Stevenson•ARTICLE•African Historical Studies•1970•Citada por: 26

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• Cultures and Societies of Africa

  Open Access•Frederick J Simoons, Simon Ottenberg et al.•ARTICLE•Geographical Review•1961•Citada por: 25

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• Archeological Implications of Traditional House Construction Among the Nchumuru of Northern Ghana [and Comments and Reply]

  E Kofi Agorsah, John H Atherton et al.•ARTICLE•Current Anthropology•1985•Citada por: 18•Referências: 6

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  Ethnographic data from the Nchumuru settlement of Wiae, Kete-Krachi District, northern Volta Region, Ghana, are used to examine the manner in which earth-walled houses in Nchumuru traditional settlements are transferred from the systemic to the archeological record. Archeological survey and excavation of two early Nchumuru sites were conducted to establish the extent to which the observed cultural and natural processes of house and settlement dev…

• Improvement Associations among the Afikpo Ibo

  Open Access•Ottenberg, Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Africa•1955•Citada por: 16•Referências: 2

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  Opening ParagraphIn recent years a new type of association, the improvement union or 'meeting', has become common in Southern Nigeria. Associations of this kind may be formed on a lineage, clan, village, village-group, divisional, or tribal basis, and may carry out various economic, educational, political, social, and general improvement activities directly related to changing cultural conditions. The present report is concerned with the developm…

• Boyhood Rituals in an African Society

  Ben G Blount, Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•African Studies Review•1990•Citada por: 15

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  This is an anthropological study of boyhood in a group of related Igbo villages called Afikpo, in souteastern Nigeria. About half of the book is taken up with the description and analysis of adolescent initiation rites, providing a close and detailed view of rituals that for the most part have only been touched upon in literature. The work makes use of psychoanalytic theory, with a logic that is grounded in data, blended with traditional cultural…

• Ibo Oracles and Intergroup Relations

  Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Southwestern Journal of…•1958•Citada por: 12

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• Double Descent in an African Society

  Rosemary Harris, Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Man•1970•Citada por: 11

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• A Moslem Igbo Village

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Cahiers d études africaines•1971•Citada por: 9

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  Ottenberg Simon. A Moslem Igbo Village.. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 11, n°42, 1971. pp. 231-260

• The Development of Credit Associations in the Changing Economy of the Afikpo Igbo

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Africa•1968•Citada por: 8•Referências: 17

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  Opening ParagraphOne problem in the rural areas of developing countries is the question of securing new sources of capital as the economy moves from a traditional agrarian system to a more fluid and flexible economic condition. New capital resources seem necessary to ensure this flexibility, to satisfy the needs of individuals in a world where economic achievement is highly stressed whatever its role in the more traditional society. Yet in the ab…

• We Are Becoming Art Minded

  Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•African Arts•1989•Citada por: 7

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• Two New Religions, One Analytic Frame

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Cahiers d études africaines•1984•Citada por: 7•Referências: 1

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  S. Ottenberg - Deux religions nouvelles, un cadre d'analyse. Les Limba de la chefferie de Bafodea, dans le nord de la Sierra Leone, ont été influencés à la fois par l'islam et le christianisme, qui en sont à la phase de contact. Les études antérieures ont généralement sous-estimé les similarités que présentent ces deux religions en Afrique : à Bafodea, elles ont suscité des réactions très analogues, avec cependant certaines différences significat…

• Local Government and the Law in Southern Nigeria1

  Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Journal of Asian and African…•1967•Citada por: 7

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• Books

  Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•African Arts•2005•Citada por: 6

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• African Vodun

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Museum Anthropology•1995•Citada por: 6

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  African Vodun: Art, Psychology, and Power. Suzanne Preston Blier. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. xii. 476 pp.,. color illus., 165 b/w illus. (including. maps), appendix, bibliography, index. $50.00 (cloth

• Leopard Society Masquerades

  Simon Ottenberg, Linda Knudsen•ARTICLE•African Arts•1985•Citada por: 6

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  Description de l'organisation de la societe secrete du Leopard au Cameroun, de son systeme de grades et de ses masques. Variations selon les groupes ethniques

• Illusion, Communication, and Psychology in West African Masquerades

  Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Ethos•1982•Citada por: 6•Referências: 28

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• Into the Heart of Africa

  John Nunley, John M Nunley et al.•ARTICLE•African Arts•1991•Citada por: 5

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• Masked Rituals of Afikpo

  Herbert M Cole, Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•African Arts•1976•Citada por: 5

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• Afikpo Masquerades

  Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•African Arts•1973•Citada por: 5

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• Sources and Themes in the Art of Obiora Udechukwu

  Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•African Arts•2002•Citada por: 4

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  L'A. presente et commente le parcours artistique et l'oeuvre de Obiora Udechukwu, l'un des artistes contemporains les plus reputes du Nigeria et faisant partie de la generation d'artistes influences par Uche Okeke, Bruce Onobrakpeya, et Solomon Irein Wangboje. Marque tant par la culture rurale igbo traditionnelle que par la culture urbaine d'Onitsha, Obiora Udechukwu est un artiste visuel, un poete, un enseignant et un critique d'art, un organisa…

• The Ekumeku Movement

  Simon Ottenberg, Don C Ohadike•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•1992•Citada por: 4

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• Africanity

  Simon Ottenberg, Jacques Maquet et al.•ARTICLE•African Arts•1973•Citada por: 4

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• Seeing with Music

  Martin Stokes, Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•1999•Citada por: 3

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• Religion and ethnicity in the arts of a Limba Chiefdom

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Africa•1988•Citada por: 3•Referências: 12

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  Opening ParagraphThis article examines the major visual and performing arts of one society and explores what changes have occurred to them over roughly one hundred years as a consequence of external religious and ethnic forces. This is a holistic, processual view of a people's arts in a particular region, providing a model to balance the excellently detailed studies of specific art forms which now exist for Africa. Using a holistic view we will r…

• Oedipus, Gender and Social Solidarity

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Ethos•1988•Citada por: 3•Referências: 16

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• Improvement Associations among the Afikpo Ibo

  Open Access•Ottenberg, Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Africa•1955•Citada por: 16•Referências: 2

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  Opening ParagraphIn recent years a new type of association, the improvement union or 'meeting', has become common in Southern Nigeria. Associations of this kind may be formed on a lineage, clan, village, village-group, divisional, or tribal basis, and may carry out various economic, educational, political, social, and general improvement activities directly related to changing cultural conditions. The present report is concerned with the developm…

• Supplementary bibliography on the Ibo-speaking people of South-Eastern Nigeria

  Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•African Studies•1955

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  This bibliography is designed to suppltment the excellent one published in 1950 by Forde and Jones,2 a listing that was primarily ethnographic in scope. The present one, while also including ethnographic works, contains as well, historical, travel, exploratory, and missionary accounts which seem to be directly concerned with the Ibo people. Very general accounts of mission activities, such as those found in Stock's history of the Church Missionar…

• Anthropology in Administration

  Simon Ottenberg, H G Barnett•ARTICLE•Pacific Affairs•1957

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• Ethnology and Ethnography

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1957

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• Ibo Oracles and Intergroup Relations

  Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Southwestern Journal of…•1958•Citada por: 12

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• Perspective on African Societies and Culture

  H B Ross, Haymo Ross et al.•ARTICLE•Phylon (1960•1961

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• Cultures and Societies of Africa

  Open Access•Frederick J Simoons, Simon Ottenberg et al.•ARTICLE•Geographical Review•1961•Citada por: 25

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• Ethnology

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1961

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• Cultures and Societies of Africa

  Gertrude P Kurath, Phoebe Ottenberg et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of American Folklore•1962

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• The Development of Local Government in a Nigerian Township

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Anthropologica•1962

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• Anthropology and Africa Today. Ethel Boissevain (Conference Editor)

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1963

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• General and Ethnology

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1964•Citada por: 2

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• Ethnology

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1965

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• The Social and Administrative History of a Nigerian Township

  Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•1966

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• Ethnology

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1966

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• General and Ethnology

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1966•Citada por: 1

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• Committee on African Studies, University of Washington, Seattle

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg, Stationsplein et al.•ARTICLE•Africa•1967

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• Local Government and the Law in Southern Nigeria1

  Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Journal of Asian and African…•1967•Citada por: 7

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• Local Government and the Law in Southern Nigeria

  Ottenberg, Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Journal of Asian and African…•1967•Citada por: 3

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• General and Ethnology

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1968

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• The Development of Credit Associations in the Changing Economy of the Afikpo Igbo

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Africa•1968•Citada por: 8•Referências: 17

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  Opening ParagraphOne problem in the rural areas of developing countries is the question of securing new sources of capital as the economy moves from a traditional agrarian system to a more fluid and flexible economic condition. New capital resources seem necessary to ensure this flexibility, to satisfy the needs of individuals in a world where economic achievement is highly stressed whatever its role in the more traditional society. Yet in the ab…

• Report of the African Studies Association

  Open Access•James L Gibbs, James Gibbs et al.•ARTICLE•African Studies Newsletter•1969

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• Commentary

  Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•Canadian Journal of African…•1969

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• Ethnology

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1969

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• Ethnology

  Open Access•Simon Ottenberg•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1970

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