Joseph Nevadomsky
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3611991 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Joseph Nevadomsky |
| NOMBRES | Joseph |
| APELLIDO | Nevadomsky |
| FIRMA | NEVADOMSKY J |
| AFILIACIONES | California State University, Fullerton |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Identification of the “Bird of Prophecy” in Benin Kingdom Art
The identity of the bird of prophecy depicted on Benin ideophones is enigmatic. The iconic brass castings of this bird serve as a reminder of the Benin-Idah War of ca. 1515–1517 and offer one of the visual props of that event among the do (Bini) who inhabit what is now do State in southern Nigeria. As a commemorative icon the bird of prophecy ideophone is used at Ugie r (Festival of the Bird of Prophecy). Senior chiefs clack a brass casting of th…
The Dating Game
To determine the age and authenticity of Benin bronzes collectors and curators have turned to scientific analyses for certainty. Galleries increasingly offer every security from TL Dating to spectrography for the Benin objects they advertise. These watertight guarantees for objects that appear stylistically anomalous, even contemporary, have created a stir among art historians who are aware of TL and other methods usually through hearsay and conf…
The Vigango Affair
Fullerton (CSUF), repatriated twenty-seven Mijikenda vigango memorial wood posts. Ten days later the vigango gures were air-freighted to Kenya, their place of origin. e success of this endeavor depends on one's point of view. University administrators and Kenyan embassy o cials in had signed the transfer documents with a no blame proviso. Bureaucratic procedures and unanticipated hindrances delayed the repatriation and almost thwarted it. Assiste…
Commentary
The prelude to the film version of Don Quixote opens with Don Manuel Cervantes jailed by the Inquisition for putting on charades. When inmates express amazement that anyone could be imprisoned for staging plays, someone replies that plays are not always what they seem. His fellow prisoners then put Cervantes on mock trial for being a poet. "Poets!" says one, "Spinning nonsense out of nothing! Blurring men's eyes to reality." Cervantes retorts: "R…
The Owegbe Cult
Exhibition Reviews
An Ethnographic and Space Syntax Analysis of Benin Kingdom Nobility Architecture
Iconoclash or Iconoconstrain
September 01 2012 Iconoclash or Iconoconstrain: Truth and Consequence in Contemporary Benin B®and Brass Castings Joseph Nevadomsky Joseph Nevadomsky Joseph Nevadomsky is H&SS Distinguished Professor (2000) in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Fullerton. His interests include Benin art, ritual, and material culture. He is presently researching Benin traditional architecture and cartography and translating Oro, a contem…
Rosalinde Gregor Wilcox (March 30, 1936–April 15, 2009)
December 01 2009 Rosalinde Gregor Wilcox (March 30, 1936–April 15, 2009) Joseph Nevadomsky Joseph Nevadomsky Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Fullerton. He spent twenty-two years in Africa, mostly in Nigeria. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Joseph Nevadomsky Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Fullerton. He sp…
Casting in Contemporary Benin Art
Books
Art and Science in Benin Bronzes
Ways of the Rivers
Museums and Archaeology in West Africa
Museums and Archaeology in West Africa. Claude Daniel Ardouin. ed. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.178 pp
The Benin Centenary Special Issues
The Benin Centenary Issue, Part 1
The Great Benin Centenary
Studies of Benin Art and Material Culture, 1897-1997
L'A. propose une synthese des etudes sur l'art africain du Benin et sur la culture materielle depuis la conquete britannique en 1897 jusqu'a la periode contemporaine. Le centenaire de l'invasion et de la conquete coloniale britannique celebre la vitalite creative de la societe Edo. L'A. divise ce siecle en quatre periodes 1897-1930, 1930-1950, 1950-1970, et enfin de 1970 a aujourd'hui. Les recherches sur l'art et la culture materielle se sont foc…
Practice and Agency in Mammy Wata Worship in Southern Nigeria
Dans les langues vernaculaires pidgin d'Afrique Occidentale, le terme Mammy Wata designe un complexe de croyances et de pratiques mettant en scene les esprits de l'eau qui favorisent la chance ou entrainent des desastres personnels suite a un certain type de relations liees le plus souvent a l'attirance sexuelle. «Mammy Wata» est le terme pidgin egalement utilise pour designer diverses divinites locales, appelees dieux d'eau pour les etrangers au…
Benin Kingdom of West Africa
Contemporary Art and Artists in Benin City
Pendant longtemps l'art contemporain de la ville de Benin (Nigeria) etait neglige des etudes en histoire de l'art ou en ethnologie, alors qu'il est d'une grande qualite artistique et s'accompagne, parallelement, d'une revitalisation pour les techniques traditionnelles. L'A. montre dans cet article la multiplicite et la complexite des pratiques artistiques inluencees aussi bien par la tradition que par les innovations observables sur le marche int…
The Clothing of Political Identity
La scarification et le tatouage («iwu ») chez l'homme et la femme bini furent longtemps d'une grande importance au royaume benin (Nigeria) car ils marquaient l'appartenance sociale. Pratiques par des « osiwu », ils ont aujourd'hui disparu. L'adoption de modes vestimentaires alternatives entraina le declin des tatouages qui sont desormais representes sur les costumes (« ewu iwu »). Ils manifestent une revendication identitaire, une reconnaissance …
Divine Inspiration -- From Benin to Bahia
The Neglected Ape
Icons
Studies of Benin Art and Material Culture, 1897-1997
L'A. propose une synthese des etudes sur l'art africain du Benin et sur la culture materielle depuis la conquete britannique en 1897 jusqu'a la periode contemporaine. Le centenaire de l'invasion et de la conquete coloniale britannique celebre la vitalite creative de la societe Edo. L'A. divise ce siecle en quatre periodes 1897-1930, 1930-1950, 1950-1970, et enfin de 1970 a aujourd'hui. Les recherches sur l'art et la culture materielle se sont foc…
Practice and Agency in Mammy Wata Worship in Southern Nigeria
Dans les langues vernaculaires pidgin d'Afrique Occidentale, le terme Mammy Wata designe un complexe de croyances et de pratiques mettant en scene les esprits de l'eau qui favorisent la chance ou entrainent des desastres personnels suite a un certain type de relations liees le plus souvent a l'attirance sexuelle. «Mammy Wata» est le terme pidgin egalement utilise pour designer diverses divinites locales, appelees dieux d'eau pour les etrangers au…
Economic Organization, Social Mobility, and Changing Social Status among East Indians in Rural Trinidad
The Vigango Affair
Fullerton (CSUF), repatriated twenty-seven Mijikenda vigango memorial wood posts. Ten days later the vigango gures were air-freighted to Kenya, their place of origin. e success of this endeavor depends on one's point of view. University administrators and Kenyan embassy o cials in had signed the transfer documents with a no blame proviso. Bureaucratic procedures and unanticipated hindrances delayed the repatriation and almost thwarted it. Assiste…
An Ethnographic and Space Syntax Analysis of Benin Kingdom Nobility Architecture
Contemporary Art and Artists in Benin City
Pendant longtemps l'art contemporain de la ville de Benin (Nigeria) etait neglige des etudes en histoire de l'art ou en ethnologie, alors qu'il est d'une grande qualite artistique et s'accompagne, parallelement, d'une revitalisation pour les techniques traditionnelles. L'A. montre dans cet article la multiplicite et la complexite des pratiques artistiques inluencees aussi bien par la tradition que par les innovations observables sur le marche int…
The Benin Bronze Horseman as the Ata of Idah
L'A. emet l'hypothese que les cavaliers de bronze typiques de l'art du Benin (Nigeria) representeraient l'Ata du royaume d'Idah avec lequel le royaume du Benin fut longtemps en conflit
Casting in Contemporary Benin Art
The Clothing of Political Identity
La scarification et le tatouage («iwu ») chez l'homme et la femme bini furent longtemps d'une grande importance au royaume benin (Nigeria) car ils marquaient l'appartenance sociale. Pratiques par des « osiwu », ils ont aujourd'hui disparu. L'adoption de modes vestimentaires alternatives entraina le declin des tatouages qui sont desormais representes sur les costumes (« ewu iwu »). Ils manifestent une revendication identitaire, une reconnaissance …
The Neglected Ape
Kemwin-Kemwin
Changing Conceptions of Family Regulation among the Hindu East Indians in Rural Trinidad
The Hindu East Indians in rural Trinidad are used as an example to illustrate the hypothesis that socioeconomic conditions are critical in determining strategies of family formation. The difference between past and present attitudes to family planning seems to lie in villagers changing perceptions of social and economic advantage. Present receptivity to family limitation seems to be linked to economic necessity. New educational and occupational o…
Museums and Archaeology in West Africa
Museums and Archaeology in West Africa. Claude Daniel Ardouin. ed. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.178 pp
The House That Idah Built
Developmental Sequences of Domestic Groups in an East Indian Community in Rural Trinidad
Changements economique, social et culturel dans l'organisation de la famille (nucleaire et etendue) dans une communaute d'Indiens (Inde), immigres dans la seconde partie du 19 siecle a Amity (Trinidad). Analyse de la situation maritale des femmes et de la composition de la famille par tranches d'âges des femmes
Kingship Succession Rituals in Benin. 3
As the eldest son of the late Oba, Prince Akenzua had earlier been invested as the Edaiken of Benin (see Part 1 of this series, November 1983), a title that officially acknowledged his right to the throne. As Edaiken, or Crown Prince, he ruled over Uselu, a community outside Benin City that in almost every way replicated in extreme miniature the one he would inherit as king. During his apprenticeship the Edaiken learned the elusive art of statecr…
Kingship Succession Rituals in Benin. 1
Cultural and Structural Dimensions of Occupational Prestige in an East Indian Community in Trinidad
One consequence of the far-reaching social and economic changes taking place among the East Indians in a rural Trinidadian village has been a lengthening of the status hierarchy. Traditional labor activities have been replaced by a broad spectrum of occupational possibilities, with local aspirations geared to urban and white-collar employment. However, while the processes of economic development seem to have altered the social structure of the co…
Changing Conceptions of Family Regulation among the Hindu East Indians in Rural Trinidad
The Hindu East Indians in rural Trinidad are used as an example to illustrate the hypothesis that socioeconomic conditions are critical in determining strategies of family formation. The difference between past and present attitudes to family planning seems to lie in villagers changing perceptions of social and economic advantage. Present receptivity to family limitation seems to be linked to economic necessity. New educational and occupational o…
On Ecological Theory and Ethnic Differentiation
Kingship Succession Rituals in Benin. 1
Economic Organization, Social Mobility, and Changing Social Status among East Indians in Rural Trinidad
Kingship Succession Rituals in Benin. 3
As the eldest son of the late Oba, Prince Akenzua had earlier been invested as the Edaiken of Benin (see Part 1 of this series, November 1983), a title that officially acknowledged his right to the throne. As Edaiken, or Crown Prince, he ruled over Uselu, a community outside Benin City that in almost every way replicated in extreme miniature the one he would inherit as king. During his apprenticeship the Edaiken learned the elusive art of statecr…
Kingship Succession Rituals in Benin. 2
A Note on the Benin Bronze Horseman
Developmental Sequences of Domestic Groups in an East Indian Community in Rural Trinidad
Changements economique, social et culturel dans l'organisation de la famille (nucleaire et etendue) dans une communaute d'Indiens (Inde), immigres dans la seconde partie du 19 siecle a Amity (Trinidad). Analyse de la situation maritale des femmes et de la composition de la famille par tranches d'âges des femmes
The Benin Bronze Horseman as the Ata of Idah
L'A. emet l'hypothese que les cavaliers de bronze typiques de l'art du Benin (Nigeria) representeraient l'Ata du royaume d'Idah avec lequel le royaume du Benin fut longtemps en conflit
The House That Idah Built
The Initiation of a Priestess
The setting-an impluvium, a courtyard, or a large room-is airy and cool. The suffused light of the late-afternoon tropical sky illuminates the performance space. The participants, mostly women dressed in white cotton garments decorated with cowrie shells and brass cutouts, sing, dance, clap, and play calabash rattles. Bells are rung to invoke the deity whom they have come to worship. Prayers are chanted over and over. A white fowl is killed. Some…
Kemwin-Kemwin
Bassey Andah, African Anthropology. Ibadan
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Changing Perspectives in African History
Bogumil Jewsiewicki and David Newbury. eds. African Historiographies: What History for Which Africa? Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1985. 320 pp. $29.95 (cloth). Catherine Coquery‐Vidrovitch and Paul Lovejoy. eds. The Workers of African Trade . Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1985. 304 pp. $29.95 (cloth
Elephant
Elephant: The Animal and Its Ivory in African Culture. Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA. (September 30, 1992. May 16, 1993
Icons
The Clothing of Political Identity
La scarification et le tatouage («iwu ») chez l'homme et la femme bini furent longtemps d'une grande importance au royaume benin (Nigeria) car ils marquaient l'appartenance sociale. Pratiques par des « osiwu », ils ont aujourd'hui disparu. L'adoption de modes vestimentaires alternatives entraina le declin des tatouages qui sont desormais representes sur les costumes (« ewu iwu »). Ils manifestent une revendication identitaire, une reconnaissance …
Divine Inspiration -- From Benin to Bahia
The Neglected Ape
The Great Benin Centenary
Studies of Benin Art and Material Culture, 1897-1997
L'A. propose une synthese des etudes sur l'art africain du Benin et sur la culture materielle depuis la conquete britannique en 1897 jusqu'a la periode contemporaine. Le centenaire de l'invasion et de la conquete coloniale britannique celebre la vitalite creative de la societe Edo. L'A. divise ce siecle en quatre periodes 1897-1930, 1930-1950, 1950-1970, et enfin de 1970 a aujourd'hui. Les recherches sur l'art et la culture materielle se sont foc…
Practice and Agency in Mammy Wata Worship in Southern Nigeria
Dans les langues vernaculaires pidgin d'Afrique Occidentale, le terme Mammy Wata designe un complexe de croyances et de pratiques mettant en scene les esprits de l'eau qui favorisent la chance ou entrainent des desastres personnels suite a un certain type de relations liees le plus souvent a l'attirance sexuelle. «Mammy Wata» est le terme pidgin egalement utilise pour designer diverses divinites locales, appelees dieux d'eau pour les etrangers au…
Benin Kingdom of West Africa
Contemporary Art and Artists in Benin City
Pendant longtemps l'art contemporain de la ville de Benin (Nigeria) etait neglige des etudes en histoire de l'art ou en ethnologie, alors qu'il est d'une grande qualite artistique et s'accompagne, parallelement, d'une revitalisation pour les techniques traditionnelles. L'A. montre dans cet article la multiplicite et la complexite des pratiques artistiques inluencees aussi bien par la tradition que par les innovations observables sur le marche int…
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