OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC BOOK OF 1997. -- CHOICE MagazineBiebuyck, Kelliher, and McRae have rendered the African studies research communtiy a valuable service by compiling this work, which will immediately become a standard reference resource. Upper-division undergraduates and higher. -- CHOICE, June 1997This outstanding reference, intelligently conceived and carefully and laboriously constructed, will be an essential work for Africanist scholars of all disciplines. -- ARBA, 1997This easy-to-use reference provides scholars with the most current and comprehensive source for the names of specific African ethnic groups. African Ethnonyms is a comprehensive index of more than 2,500 names of ethnic groups taken from numerous sources, including linguistic and ethnographic surveys of Africa, as well as from more than one hundred major books and catalogs of African art. Its emphasis is on the art of sub-Saharan Africa, with the term art interpreted broadly to include ornamental design, architecture, textiles, and body adornment, in addition to the more traditional arts of masks and sculpture.Daniel Biebuyck, noted researcher in African cultures, introduces researchers to the wealth and variety of these groups and the proliferation of terms which have been applied to them over the centuries. In addition to compiling alternate names and orthographies for various countries, cultures, and political and ritual entities, the Index provides AAT and LCSH preferred terms, cites references and further sources of information for each main entry, and serves as a bibliography to current literature on African art.Names are arranged alphabetically in dictionary format. Modeled after the Union List of Artist Names, entries cluster alternate spellings and variant name forms under a single name. Entries also list the countries where groups are located and the language name. A secondary index lists ethnic groups by country and provides notes on historical colonial occupation, language notes, and an extensive bibliography. African Ethnonyms' thoroughness of coverage makes a unique resource for librarians, museum scholars, and researchers in the fields of art history, anthropology, linguistics, and African studies.G.K. Hall & Co.1996
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