African Art and Agency in the Workshop

Acknowledgments

ACknowledgments The essays presented herein began as a double panel on workshops convened at the Triennial Symposium in African Art, held at the University of Florida in April 2007. Several panelists were our own graduate students and former students—including Christine Scherer, Elizabeth Morton, Chika okeke-Agulu, and Jessica Gerschultz, a young group of scholars working in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya who have, in the intervening five years, moved forward in their own careers and conducted more research while acquiring jobs and promotions. To augment their essays we have added our own—based on fieldwork conducted from Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroon to Nigeria, Kenya, and Tanzania— and those of our colleagues Nicolas Argenti and Silvia Forni, both working in Cameroon; Namubira Rose Kirumira, working in Uganda, Zambia, and South Africa; Alexander Bortolot, working in Mozambique, and Karen Milbourne, working in Zambia. As the manuscript developed, essays by two other senior scholars were added along the way: Norma Wolff’s study in Nigeria, and Brenda Schmahmann’s study in Zimbabwe and South Africa. We are grateful to the University of Basel and Emory University for providing the funds necessary for color plates—and, more generally, for their support of our own scholarly research in several countries over the years. Most of all we thank our contributors, who have patiently stayed with us through the involved process of putting the book together. This page intentionally left blank A -fricA -n A -rt A -nd A -gency in the Workshop This page intentionally left blank ...