Select Arts Related Publications
2006a “A New Theory and Method for the Study of Tourist Art: Variation and
Innovation in Zimbabwean Flow Sculpture.” In The Quality of Social Existence in a Globalizing World. XVI World Congress of Sociology. July 24-29, 2006. Durban: Conference Papers on CD-Rom.
2006b “A Letter to Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.” Textile Patterns in Stone in the National Museum of Indonesia” Indonesian Heritage Society Newsletter. November.
2002 “Shona Sculpture and Documenta 2002: Reflections on Exclusions.” In Matatu: African Cultures, Visual Arts and the Museum. Ed. Tobias Doering. Amsterdam: Rodopi. Pp. 101-123.
2001 “The Radical within the Museum: Frank McEwen and the Genesis of Shona Sculpture as a Cultural Struggle at the Rhodes National Gallery” In Kunst aus Zimbabwe – Kunst in Zimbabwe. Eds. Forster, Till and Marina von Assel. Iwalewa Forum. Bayreuth: Universitat Bayreuth. Pp. 131-47.
2000a “The Africa Project” Kate Kuper, Jonathan Zilberg and Sandra Bales. ‚Äú Art Education. (Special Issue: How History Can Come Together as Art) 3(2):18-24.
2000b “Water Spirits, Shona Culture and Shona Sculpture.” Leonardo. Journal of Arts and Sciences Afrique Virtuelle. http://www.cyberworkers.com/Leonardo.
1998 “Using the African Collection at Illinois State University as a Resource for Teaching and Research.”The Africa Collection. Eds. Steve Meckstroth, Linda Giles, Scott Larson and Allan Richards. CD-ROM. Normal, Illinois. Instructional Technology Services.
1997 “The Case of Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture: The Western Reception of a Modern African Art Form.” In Zimbabwe: Past and Present Vol. II. Pp. 29-39. Ed. Geert Bourgois. Royal Museum for Central Africa. Tervuren, Belgium (with French and Dutch editions).
1996 “Beyond Genuflections Towards the Gatekeepers of Modern Art.” Special Feature. Chapungu. Chapungu Sculpture Park. April, Pp. 9.
1995/97 “Yes, It’s True: Zimbabweans Love Dolly Parton.” First published in Journal of Popular Culture. Special Issue: Anthropology and Popular Culture 29(1):111-125. Reprinted in Readings from the Disciplines: Research Models for Writers, 1e. Ed. Christine Hult. New York: Allyn and Bacon.
1995 “Shona Sculpture‚Äôs Struggle for Authenticity and Value.” Museum Anthropology 19(1):3-24.
1994 “Inscriptions and Fantasies in the Invention of Shona Sculpture.” Passages: A Chronicle of the Humanities 7:13, 16.
1989 “Male Face Mask (mbuya).” In Discoveries: African Art from the Smiley Collection. Anita J. Glaze ad Alfred L. Scheinberg, eds. Champaign-Urbana: Krannert Art Museum. Pp. 71.
1988 “Ethnic Diversity in Shona Sculpture—The Influence of the Nyau Cult on Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture .” Collected Papers of the African Studies Association Meetings.
1982-3 “An Integrated Analysis of the Diquis Petroglyphs.” Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society (Special Issue: Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in Costa Rica) 14(2):330-358.
Book Reviews in Print
Forthcoming Family Matters: Feminist Concepts in African Philosophy of Culture by Nkiru Uwechia Nzegwu and Making Men in Ghana by Stephen F. Meischer. Joint review. West African Review.
Forthcoming Music in Mission: Mission Through Music: A South African Case Study by Claudio Steinart. African Book Publishing Record.
2008a Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940-1960. Bill Anthes. Leonardo 41(3):293-94.
2008b Sweet Anticipation. . David Huron. Leonardo 41(1):88-89.
2008c All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850-1950. Robert Kohler. Leonardo 41(2):195-96.
2007 Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Syria. Leonardo 40(3):302-03.
2002 Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Popular Music in Zimbabwe by Thomas Turino. Journal of Cultural Studies (Lagos) 3(2):514-522.
1998 Embodying Colonial Memories: Spirit Possession, Power, and the Hauka in West Africa by Paul Stoller. Anthropological Quarterly 71(1):45-47.
1995a Weaving the Threads of Life: The Khita Gyn-Eco-Logical Healing Cult among the Yaka by Renee Devisch, in American Ethnologist 22(4):1089-1090.
1995b A Zimbabwean Past: Shona Dynastic Histories and Oral Traditions by David
Beach, in The International Journal of African Historical Studies 28(3):684-688.
1995c African Art in Transit by Christopher Steiner, in The International Journal of African Historical Studies 28(2):464-466.
On-Line Arts Related Book Reviews at Leonardo: The On-Line Arts and Sciences Journal
http://www.mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/
2008a (Un)common Ground” Creative Encounters across Sectors and Disciplines by Cathy Brickwood et. al.
2008b Weimar on the Pacific : German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism. Ehrhard Bahr.
2007a Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations eds. Ivan Karp, Corrine Kratz, Lyn Szwaja and Tomas Ybarra-Frausto.
2007b Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940-196. Bill Anthes.
2007c Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture. Maria Elena Buszek.
2007d After the Revolution: Antoine-Jean Gros, Painting and Propaganda Under Napoleon. David O’Brien.
2006a Curating Immateriality: The Work of Art in the Age of Network Systems, ed. Joasia Krysa.
2006b With Amusement For All: A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830 by LeRoy Ashby.
2006d Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria. Jonathan Holt Shannon.
Film Reviews in Print
2007a Hats of Jerusalem. (2005). Nati Adler. New York: First Run/Icarus Films. Leonardo vol. 40, no. 5.
2007b Dreamers of Arnhem Land. Chris Walker. New York: First Run/Icarus Films. Leonardo vol. 40, no. 4.
2001a “Tengenenge.” Film Review. Mango Productions (1995). African Arts XXXIV(3):79-80, 96.
2001 b “Nicholas Mukomberanwa” and “Talking Stones.” Combined film review. Mango Productions. (1998 and 2000). African Arts XXXIV(3):80-81, 96.
Film Reviews on-line at Leonardo: The On-Line Arts and Sciences Journal
http://www.mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/
2008 The Future of Mud by Susan Vogel. New York: Prince Street Pictures.
2007a Democratic Revolutionary Handbook. First Run/Icarus Films.
2007b Bullshit. Pea Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian. A Cinema Guild Release.
2006a Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said. Makoto Sato. First Run/Icarus Films.
2006b The Dreamers of Arnhem Land. Chris Walker. First Run/Icarus Films.
2006c Hats of Jerusalem. Nati Adler. First Run/Icarus Films.
2006d They Chose China. Shuibo Wang. First Run/Icarus Films.
2005 Edward Said. Makato Sato. First Run/Icarus Films.
Exhibition Reviews on-line at Leonardo: The On-Line Arts and Sciences Journal
http://www.mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/
2006 “Darwin’s Ghost: The Darwin Exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History.” Leonardo on line. MIT Press.
Abbreviated List of Conference Papers Presented
“Women and Girl Rape Victims in the DRC and the Global Campaign to End Fistula.” Wars and Conflicts in Africa. University of Texas at Austin. March 28-30, 2008.
“The Cyrene Project.” British Zimbabwe Society. Oxford. April 12, 2008.
“Does Aceh Really Need a $7.5 Million Tsunami Museum?” Museum Ethnography at Home. Museum Ethnographers Group. Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, April 10-11, 2008.
“The Case of Shona Sculpture from Zimbabwe: Spirits for Sale and The Benhura War.” Packaging the Past: The Commodification of Heritage. The 9th Annual Cambridge Heritage Seminar. Date. April 19, 2008.
“Revisiting Country Music in Zimbabwe to Reflect Upon The History of the Study of African Popular Culture.” Popular Culture in Africa. University of Texas at Austin. March 29, 2007.
“The Indonesian Playboy Debacle.” Second Annual Southeast Asian Religion Conference. Mahidol University, Bangkok. May 24, 2007.
“Moving from GDP towards GNH: Beyond The World Bank’s Quality of Growth Model for Achieving Sustainable Development.” Third International Conference on Gross National Happiness. Chukalongkorn University. Bangkok, Thailand. November 26, 2007.
“Durable Traditions: Inspirational Textile Legacies in Stone in the National Museum of Indonesia.” Traditional Textiles of Indonesia: Today and in the Future. Jakarta, November 21, 2007.
“Golden Germs: Balinese Batuan Painting in Africa and Global Expressionisms.” International Seminar: Visual Art and Design For [The] Society. Bandung Institute of Technology. Bandung. December 8, 2007.
“Variation and Innovation in Zimbabwean Flow Sculptures.” Presented at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, July 22, 2006.
“The Frank McEwen Collection of Shona Sculpture in the British Museum” Presented at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, July 20th, 2006.
“Kingsley Sambo and Vincent Van Gogh: Afro-German Expressionism at the Rhodes National Gallery, 1957-1977” Paper presented at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, July 13, 2006.
“A New Theory and Method for the Study of Tourist Art: Variation and Innovation in Zimbabwean Flow Sculpture.” In The Quality of Social Existence in a Globalizing World. XVI World Congress of Sociology. Durban. July 24-29, 2006.
“Shona Sculpture and Transnational Art Markets.” In ‚ÄúTransnational Culture Industries and Local Sites of Artistic Production.‚Äù Ford Foundation Seminar. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Urbana, Illinois. 2000. October 4.
“The Line, The Moment and The Word: Art, Anthropology and Experience.” Institutions of the Visual. Illinois Program of Research in the Humanities. Second Annual Conference. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Urbana, Illinois. 2000. March 7.
“Bobo Masquerades: A Presentation for Children by Professor Mahir Saul: Bringing Anthropology into K-6 Classrooms through Museums. In “From Theory to Practice: One Museum’s Story.” National Art Education Association Meetings. Washington, D.C. 1999. March 17.
“Formulating and Creating More Effective Means for Communicating High Quality Information about African art.” In “Art Education and the African Child” at The Children of Africa: Resources for Learning, Health and Society. Institute for the African Child. Inaugural Conference. Athens, Ohio. 1999. June 17.
“Grapes Upon the Vine: John Ruskin’s Philosophy of Arts Education in Africa.” Paper presented in “Arts and Crafts Movements and the Tourist/Ethnic Arts: Reflections on the Creation of Lives with Industry and Industry with Art,” at the 98th. Annual American Anthropological Association Meetings. Chicago, Illinois. 1999. November 17.
“Return to Origins: On the Relevance of the Manchester School to Social Anthropology South of the Zambezi.” Visions and Voices: The 50th Anniversary of Manchester Anthropology 1949-1999. International Center for Cross-Cultural Research. Post-colonial Subjectivities in Africa. Manchester, England. 1999. October 28.
“White Rhodesian Colonial Jewry and Contemporary African Art, 1947-1996.” Metropolitan Non-Dominant Groups as (Part of) Local Elites in Colonial and Post-Colonial Societies. Department of Social Anthropology. University of Manchester. Manchester. 1999. May 17.
“Formulating and Creating More Effective Means for Communicating High Quality Information about African art.” In “Art Education and the African Child” at The Children of Africa: Resources for Learning, Health and Society. Institute for the African Child Inaugural Conference. Athens, Ohio. 1999. June 16-19.
“Battles in the Marketplace: Shona Sculpture versus Airport Art.” In “African Artists in the Marketplace.” 37th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. Toronto. 1994. November 6.
“Battles in the Marketplace: Shona Sculpture versus Airport Art.” In “African Artists in the Marketplace.” 37th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. Toronto. 1994. November 6.
‚ÄúThe Authenti[fi]cation of Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture, or The Invention of Shona Sculpture.” 115th. Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society. Santa Fe, New Mexico. 1993. April 15-18.
“Shona Sculpture and Dolly Parton: Inscriptions in the Material World.” The Institute for the Advanced Study and Research in the African Humanities. Northwestern University, Evanston, Il. 1993. October 13.
Inscriptions and Fantasies in the Invention of Shona Sculpture.” In “Texts in Objects Workshop” at The Institute for the Advanced Study and Research in the African Humanities. Northwestern University, Evanston, Il. 1993. November 5.
“Why Zimbabweans Love Dolly Parton and Do Not Buy Shona Sculpture.” 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington D.C. 1993. November 15.
“The Distribution, Archaeological Context and Iconographic Symbolism of the Diquis Petroglyphs.” In “The Third Conference on the Ceramics of Gran Nicoya and the Archaeological Panorama of Costa Rica at the National Museum of Costa Rica. San Jose, Costa Rica. 1984.