Patrick Mcnaughton
Biographic Data
| ID | 80873 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Mcnaughton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcnaughton |
| SIGNATURE | MCNAUGHTON P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Agency in artistry
Understanding masquerade performance is a difficult challenge because so many dimensions of expressive culture come together. There are questions of performer ambiguity and secret expertise, the confounding relationships between secular and spiritual, the many aspects of secrecy, and the involvement of higher powers. There is also the basic question of what a performance is supposed to accomplish, and the most fundamental issue of individual iden…
A Bird Dance near Saturday City
https://ethnomultimedia.org/book.html?bid=21
A Bird Dance near Saturday City
CD-Roms for Africanists
"Comments on "Secrets and Lies
COMMENTS ON "SECRETS AND LIES" Patrick McNaughton MypointsIfindcommentsgenerallyofimportance,heretoarebequiteacertainlyresponsegood.fortoTakentheMandeotherasascholars,group,paperstheyinbutthisofferalsovolume,aforgreatawhichmuchmany Ifindgenerallytobequitegood.Takenasagroup,theyofferagreatmany pointsofimportance,certainlyforMandescholars,butalsoforamuch broaderbocfyofstudentsofAfricanstudies,arthistoiy,anthropology,ethnomusicology, folklore,andhis…
Five Windows into Africa
Through CD-ROM technology, including high-quality video, still images, sound and text, Five Windows into Africa vividly captures the vitality and immediacy of life in contemporary Africa. Guided by the individual experiences of the five authors, this interactive CD-ROM conveys a first-hand sense of discovery and understanding by bringing African peoples and cultures into focus and revealing critical social, political, economic and cultural issues…
Sieberfest
The Mande Blacksmiths
"... finely crafted scholarship. Elegant and graceful, yet packed with knowledge and information, it embodies the aesthetic qualities which it describes and explores." -American Ethnologist"The text is detailed and informative, and enjoyable reading... " -Choice"The Mande Blacksmith is an important book... sensitive, sympathetic, multifaceted, and thorough... " -African Arts"McNaughton's Mande Blacksmiths is undeniably the most profound study of …
Theoretical Angst and the Myth of Description
I read Don Cosentino's "First Word" and I was moved by it.I have asked similar questions of Africa-and-the-world recently, not just in the area of arts but her entire cultural heritage.Some of my questioning has been motivated by the Martin Beral syndrome in our communities and schools, some by reflections in the commercial press like those in Time that Cosentino cites; but most Bloomington in a Sunday Herald-Times article by Kelly Rota) We want …
Theoretical Angst and the Myth of Description
I read Don Cosentino's "First Word" and I was moved by it.I have asked similar questions of Africa-and-the-world recently, not just in the area of arts but her entire cultural heritage.Some of my questioning has been motivated by the Martin Beral syndrome in our communities and schools, some by reflections in the commercial press like those in Time that Cosentino cites; but most Bloomington in a Sunday Herald-Times article by Kelly Rota) We want …
The Mande Blacksmiths
"... finely crafted scholarship. Elegant and graceful, yet packed with knowledge and information, it embodies the aesthetic qualities which it describes and explores." -American Ethnologist"The text is detailed and informative, and enjoyable reading... " -Choice"The Mande Blacksmith is an important book... sensitive, sympathetic, multifaceted, and thorough... " -African Arts"McNaughton's Mande Blacksmiths is undeniably the most profound study of …
Theoretical Angst and the Myth of Description
I read Don Cosentino's "First Word" and I was moved by it.I have asked similar questions of Africa-and-the-world recently, not just in the area of arts but her entire cultural heritage.Some of my questioning has been motivated by the Martin Beral syndrome in our communities and schools, some by reflections in the commercial press like those in Time that Cosentino cites; but most Bloomington in a Sunday Herald-Times article by Kelly Rota) We want …
Sieberfest
"Comments on "Secrets and Lies
COMMENTS ON "SECRETS AND LIES" Patrick McNaughton MypointsIfindcommentsgenerallyofimportance,heretoarebequiteacertainlyresponsegood.fortoTakentheMandeotherasascholars,group,paperstheyinbutthisofferalsovolume,aforgreatawhichmuchmany Ifindgenerallytobequitegood.Takenasagroup,theyofferagreatmany pointsofimportance,certainlyforMandescholars,butalsoforamuch broaderbocfyofstudentsofAfricanstudies,arthistoiy,anthropology,ethnomusicology, folklore,andhis…
Five Windows into Africa
Through CD-ROM technology, including high-quality video, still images, sound and text, Five Windows into Africa vividly captures the vitality and immediacy of life in contemporary Africa. Guided by the individual experiences of the five authors, this interactive CD-ROM conveys a first-hand sense of discovery and understanding by bringing African peoples and cultures into focus and revealing critical social, political, economic and cultural issues…
CD-Roms for Africanists
A Bird Dance near Saturday City
https://ethnomultimedia.org/book.html?bid=21
A Bird Dance near Saturday City
Agency in artistry
Understanding masquerade performance is a difficult challenge because so many dimensions of expressive culture come together. There are questions of performer ambiguity and secret expertise, the confounding relationships between secular and spiritual, the many aspects of secrecy, and the involvement of higher powers. There is also the basic question of what a performance is supposed to accomplish, and the most fundamental issue of individual iden…
Art (6 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Africa (3 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Mandingo (African people) (3 works) · African (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Dance (2 works) · Folk dancing (2 works)