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Allen F. Roberts

Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan, 1980-1, 1984-5.
  • Ph.D. (1980) and MA (1972) in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, University of Chicago.
  • B.A. (1968) in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Amherst College.

Publications

  • “Spiritscapes of the Indian Ocean World” (with M.N.Roberts), in Afrique/Asie, D. Malaquais, ed. Paris: PURH 2015
  • “Icons from the End of Days: Visual Hagiography Among Layennes of Senegal,” World Art, 2013.
  • “Movement of Ideas and Forms Between Central and Eastern Africa,” in Shangaa! Art of Tanzania, CUNY, 2013.
  • “CitoyennetĂ© visuel au SĂ©nĂ©gal contemporain,” Les arts de la citoyennetĂ©, M. Diouf, ed. Karthala, 2013.
  • “Performing Cosmology,” in African Cosmos, C. Kreamer, ed. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, 2012.
  • “‘Sufi Arts of Senegal” (with M. N. Roberts), Companion to African Religions, E. Bongmba, ed. Blackwell, 2012.
  • “Les arts itĂ©ratifs au SĂ©nĂ©gal” (with M. N. Roberts), La fabrique des images, MusĂ©e du quai Branly 2010.
  • “Resignification and the Migration of Images,” in Religion and Material Culture, D. Morgan, ed. Routledge, 2009.
  • “Flickering Images, Floating Signifiers” (with M.N.Roberts), Material Religion, 2008.
  • “Mystical Graffiti and the Refabulation of Dakar” (with M.N.Roberts), Africa Today, 2008.