The Arts of the Edo-Speaking Peoples outside Benin City

T he principal papers in this issue of African Arts were originally presented in Chicago at a panel on the Arts of the Edo-speaking Peoples on February 2nd, 1976, during the annual conference of the College Art Association of America. The panel's origins, however, go back to November 1st, 1974, when Paula Ben-Amos, Perkins Foss and I lunched together during the annual conference of the African Studies Association, also held in Chicago. Paula had already laid the foundations for the panel and for its publication in African Arts. We discussed the desirability of bringing together those who had worked in the area of the Edo-speaking peoples for a mutual exchange of ideas, and perhaps to take some steps towards a new synthesis. Most of the people whose work was mentioned were young, in most cases still working for their doctorates. As it happened no one was free to take the initiative to obtain the funds to bring these people together. When I was invited to organize a panel for the College Art Association, it seemed most sensible to use this as the opportunity we were seeking

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  Robin Poynor•African Arts•2017

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