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Harvard University.

The oral-visual nexus: Rethinking visuality in Mali.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The oral-visual nexus: Rethinking visuality in Mali.
Author:	Van Dyke, Kristina Marie.
Description:	200 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Suzanne Preston Blier.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-05, Section: A, page: 1533.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-05A.
Subject:	Art History.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3174059
ISBN:	9780542119781

The oral-visual nexus: Rethinking visuality in Mali.
Van Dyke, Kristina Marie.

The oral-visual nexus: Rethinking visuality in Mali. - 200 p.

Adviser: Suzanne Preston Blier.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2005.

My dissertation explores the changing status of objects and architecture in Mali through an examination of three case studies: the traditional sculpture of the Bamana Jo society, the Musee National du Mali, and the historic site of Hamdallaye, the 19th century capital of the Islamic theocracy called the Dina. I suggest that material form has been over-privileged by art historians working in Africa as the result of a reliance on representational paradigms. I argue that a consideration of the role of vision in Malian epistemology forces a rethinking of visuality there in terms of orality. The oral-visual nexus produces definitions of objects and architecture that are considerably more performative, dynamic, and ephemeral and requires a reconsideration of notions of time and history. Whereas Western concepts of objects and architecture suggest that history can be embedded in material form, in the Malian context, I show that history is made present through engagement with nodes in a larger network of spiritual and temporal flows and intensities. The material form of objects and architecture serves as a site of projection or framing device for enacted history, but is not intrinsic to it.

ISBN: 9780542119781Subjects--Topical Terms:

212490
Art History.

The oral-visual nexus: Rethinking visuality in Mali.
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