This book explores the roles of contemporary urban shrines and their visual traditions in Benin City. It focuses on the charismatic priests and priestesses who are possessed by a pantheon of deities, the communities of devotees, and the artists who make artifacts for their shrines. The visual arts are part of a wider configuration of practices that include song, dance, possession and healing. These practices provide the means for exploring the relationships of the visual to both the verbal and performance arts that feature at these shrines. The analysis in this book raises fundamental questions about how the art of Benin, and non-Western art histories more generally, are understood. The book throws critical light on the taken-for-granted assumptions which underpin current interpretations and presents an original and revisionist account of Benin art history.
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This seminal book on the urban shrines of Benin City, Nigeria, is a densely composed work of anthropology. Gore adds an important study of Benin shrine arts to the corpus of available research. -- Christian Lund Africa Gore's book is important for its detailed study of numerous contemporary shrines, ohens and artists, as well as its historiography of the field of Benin studies. -- Courtnay Micots Journal of African History This seminal book on the urban shrines of Benin City, Nigeria, is a densely composed work of anthropology. Gore adds an important study of Benin shrine arts to the corpus of available research. Gore's book is important for its detailed study of numerous contemporary shrines, ohens and artists, as well as its historiography of the field of Benin studies.
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Charles Gore is an artist and lecturer in the History of African Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
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This study shifts the focus of attention from the world-famous royal art associated with the Edo kingdom, most notably 'the Benin bronzes', to the art traditions produced by the local Edo religion which underpins the legitmacy and power of kingship. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ugie avan, other ohens, female ohens, urban contemporary shrines, visiting ohens, communal village shrines, performing ohen, officiating ohens, different ohens, fish eagle feather, shrine configurations, hereditary titleholder, word ebo, dynastic oral traditions, palace organisation, occurring chalk, water spirit world, native chalk, red parrot feather, palace institutions, communal deity, leaded gunmetal, communal shrine, specialist wards, local chalk Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Benin City, Oba of Benin, Madam Odigie, Girshick Ben-Amos, African Arts, West Africa, New York, Oba Esigie, Oba Ewuare, Mami Wata, Madam Aimienho, Obas of Benin, Oba Eweka, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Igun Street, Oba Ovonramwen, Indiana University Press, Oba Adolo, Madam Osughe, Los Angeles, Hakluyt Society, Madam Iyamu, Madam Ehidiaduwa, African Gender Browse Sample Pages:
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This study shifts the focus of attention from the world-famous royal art associated with the Edo kingdom, most notably 'the Benin bronzes', to the art traditions produced by the local Edo religion which underpins the legitmacy and power of kingship. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ugie avan, other ohens, female ohens, urban contemporary shrines, visiting ohens, communal village shrines, performing ohen, officiating ohens, different ohens, fish eagle feather, shrine configurations, hereditary titleholder, word ebo, dynastic oral traditions, palace organisation, occurring chalk, water spirit world, native chalk, red parrot feather, palace institutions, communal deity, leaded gunmetal, communal shrine, specialist wards, local chalk Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Benin City, Oba of Benin, Madam Odigie, Girshick Ben-Amos, African Arts, West Africa, New York, Oba Esigie, Oba Ewuare, Mami Wata, Madam Aimienho, Obas of Benin, Oba Eweka, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Igun Street, Oba Ovonramwen, Indiana University Press, Oba Adolo, Madam Osughe, Los Angeles, Hakluyt Society, Madam Iyamu, Madam Ehidiaduwa, African Gender Browse Sample Pages:
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