Mali

Aherne, Tavy D. Nakunte Diarra: Bògòlanfini Artist of the Beledougou. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Art Museum, 1992.

Alexandre, P. "Djenne, sur le Nil-des-Noirs." L'histoire 92 (1986): pp. 59-68.

Aradeon, Susan B. "Al-Sahili: the historians' myth of architectural technology transfer from North Africa." Journal des africanistes 59, no. 1-2 (1989): pp. 99-131.

Arnoldi, Mary Jo. "Sòmonò Puppet Masquerades in Kirango, Mali." Photographs by Susan Vogel. African Arts 34, no. 1 (Spring 2001): pp. 72-77.

Arnoldi, Mary Jo and Kate Ezra. "Sama Ba: The Elephant in Bamana Art," in Elephant: The Animal and Its Ivory in African Culture edited by Doran H. Ross, pp. 99-111. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1992.

See Arts of Africa from the Hegarty Collection.

Bedaux, Rogier M. A. "Recherches archéologiques dans le Delta interieur du Niger (Mali)." Palaeohistoria 20 (1978): pp. 91-220. [Reviewed by Raymond Mauny, review available online in Journal des africanistes 50, no. 50/1 (1980): pp. 151-152.]

Bedaux, Rogier M. A. "Rediscovering the Tellem of Mali." Archaeology 35, no. 3 (1982): pp. 28-34.

Bedaux, Rogier M. A. "Tellem and Dogon material culture." African Arts 21, no. 4 (1988): pp. 38-45, 91.

Bedaux, Rogier M. A. "Tellem aux Dogon: recherches archéologiques dans la boucle du Niger (Mali)," in Dall'archeologia all'arte tradizionale africana/De l'archéologie à l'art traditionnel africain/From Archaeology to Traditonal African Art: A cura di Gigi Pezzoli, pp. 83-101. Milano: Centro Studi Archeologia Africana, 1992.

Bedaux, Rogier M. A. "Tellem: reconnaissance archéologique d'une culture de l'Ouest africain au moyen âge." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 42, no. 2 (1972): pp. 103-185.

Bedaux, Rogier M. A. and Rita Bolland. "Tellem, reconnaissance archéologique d'une culture de l'Ouest africain au Moyen-Age: les Textiles." Journal des africanistes 50, no. 50/1 (1980): pp. 9-23.

Bertagnin, Mauro. "Apprendre du chantier: le Bastion 23 et la Citadelle de la Casbah." Environmental Design: Journal of the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre (Rome) 12 (1992): pp. 80-87.

Bime, André. "Ségou vieille capitale." Angoulême (1952): pp. ????.

Bolland, Rita. "Clothing from Burial Caves in Mali, 11th-18th Century," in History, Design, and Craft in West African Strip-Woven Cloth: Papers Presented at a Symposium Organized by the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, February 18-19, 1988, pp. 53-81. Washington, DC: The National Museum of African Art, 1992.

Bouare, Ousman. "Pillage du patrimoine culturel: vol d'objets d'arts et fouilles clandestines." Kabako: Bimensuel malien de faits divers (Bamako) 12 (April 10, 1992): p. 5.

Bourgeois, Jean-Louis. "The History of the Great Mosque of Djenne." African Arts 20, no.3 (1987): pp. 54-63.

Bourgeois, Jean-Louis and Carollee Pelos. "West African Adobe: Mud at its Most Magnificent." American Visions (Washington, DC) 7, No. 1 (February/March 1992): pp. 16-20.

Bourgeois, Jean-Louis and Carollee Pelos. Spectacular Vernacular: The Adobe Tradition. New York: Aperture Foundation, 1989.

Brasseur, Gérard. "Djenne, centre urbain traditionnel." Compte Rendu CIAO Ve réunion, Abidjan, 1953, pp. ????. Abidjan: Institut Français d’Afrique Noire, 1953.

Brasseur, Gérard. Les Etablissements Humains au Mali. Mémoires IFAN 83. Dakar: IFAN, 1968.

Brasseur, Gérard. "Étude de géographie régionale: le village de Ténetou." Bulletin IFAN (1961): pp. ????.

Brasseur, Gérard. "Une maison Dogon de la région de Bandiagara." Notes africaines 86 (1960): pp. ????.

Camara, Seydou. "Les Numun et la métallurgie ancienne du fer au Manden.” Etudes maliennes (Bamako) 46 (1992): pp. 5-33.

Chesi, Gert. "Architettura e arte dei Dogon del Mali: il cielo in terra." Nigrizia: fatti e problemi del mondo nero (Rome) 110, no. 7-8 (luglio-agosto 1992): pp. 29-44.

Cissé, Diango. Structures des Malinké de Kita. Bamako: Éditions Populaires, 1970.

Cressier, Patrice. “Archéologie de la dévotion soufi.” Journal des Africanistes (Paris) 61, no. 2 (1992): pp. 69-90.

Delmond, P. "Dans la boucle du Niger, Dori ville peule." Mélanges ethnologique, pp. ????. Mem. IFAN 23. Dakar: IFAN, 1953.

See Domian. Architecture soudanaise.

Duponchel, Pauline. Formes, fonctiones et significations des textiles traditionnels de coton tissés et teints du Mali. Mémoire de DEA, Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1990.

Duponchel, Pauline. Textiles Bògòlan du Mali. Neuchâtel: Musée d'Ethnographie, 2004. [Reviewed by Pascal James Imperato in African Studies Review (New Brunswick) 48, no. 2 (Sept. 2005): pp. 174-177.]

Engestrom, Tor. "Wall decorations of the Oualata type at Bamako." Ethnos 21: pp. 216-219.

Ezra, Kate. Art of the Dogon: Selections from the Lester Wunderman Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 1988.

Froelich, J. C. "Niani, ancienne capitale de l’empire du Mali." Recherches africaines 1 (1969).

Gallay, Alain. “Traditions céramiques et ethnies dans le Delta intérieur du Niger (Mali).” Bulletin Genevoise d’Antrhopologie (Geneva) 3 (1991-1992): pp. 23-46.

Gardi, Bernard. "Djenne at the turn of the century: postcards from the Museum fur Volkerkunde Basel." African Arts 27, no. 2 (1994): pp. 70-75.

Gardi, Bernard, et. al. Djenné, il y a Cent Ans. Amsterdam: Institut Royal des Tropiques, Bale: Museum für Völkerkunde, Bamako: Musée National du Mali, 1995.

Gardi, Bernard, ed. Textiles du Mali d'aprés les collections du Musée National du Mali. Bamako: Musée National du Mali, 2003. [Reviewed by Pascal James Imperato in African Studies Review (New Brunswick) 48, no. 2 (Sept. 2005): pp. 174-177.]

Gijn, Annelou van. Huisgebruik in Djenné, Mali. Mémoire de fin d’étude (ethnologie). Groningen: Université de Groningen, 1983.

Gijn, Annelou van. "Habitation in Djenné, Mali: Use of Space in a West-African Town." In Op Zoek naar Mens en Materiële Gultuur, edited by H. Fokkens, et. al. Groningen: Universiteitsdrukkerij RUG, 1986.

Griaule, Marcel. "Blasons totémiques des Dogon." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 7, no. 1 (1937): pp. 69-78.

Griaule, Marcel. "Les constructions Dogon." Sciences et voyage (Jan. 1942): pp. ????.

Gruner, Dorothee. "Islamische Tradition oder autochthones Erbe?: Anmerkungen zum Moscheeturm in Westafrika." Paideuma 35 (1989): 93-113.

Gruner, Dorothee. Die Lehm-Moschee am Niger: Dokumentation eines traditionellen Bautyps. Studien zur Kulturkunde 95. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1990.

Gruner, Dorothee. "Der traditionelle Lehmbau und seine Problematik, Entwicklungtendenzen am mitlleren Niger (Mali)." Paideuma 27 (1981): pp. 47-62.

Gruner, Dorothee. "Der traditionelle Moscheebau am Mittleren Niger, Bemerkungen zum historischen und aktuellen Entwicklung." Paideuma 23 (1977): pp. 101-40.

Grunne, Bernard de. "An Art Historical Approach to the Terracotta Figures of the Inland Niger Delta." African Arts (Los Angeles) 28, no. 4 (Autumn 1995): pp. 70-9, 112.

Haselberger-Blahe, Herta. "Architekturskizzen aus der Republik Mali-Ergebnisse der Diafe 1907-199 des Frobenius Institutes." Internationales Archiv fur Ethnographie 50, no. 2: pp. 244-280.

Hilu, Sam and Irwin Hersey. Bogolanfini Mud Cloth. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2005. [Reviewed by Pascal James Imperato in African Studies Review (New Brunswick) 49, no. 2 (Sept. 2006): pp. 214-215.]

Hoffman, Barbara G. Griots at War: Conflict, Conciliation, and Caste in Mande. Bloomington, IN: Bloomington University Press, 2000. [Reviewed by Mary Jo Arnoldi in African Arts 37, no. 3 (Autumn 2004): pp. 86-87.]

Huet, Jean-Christophe. Villages persches des Dogon du Mali: habitat, espace et société. Paris: L’harmattan, 1994.

Hunwick, John O. "An Andalusian in Mali: A Contribution to the Biography of Abu Ishaq al-Sahili, c. 1290-1346." Unpublished paper, 1972.

Imperato, Pascal J. African Mud Cloth: The Bogolanfini Art Tradition of Gneli Traoré of Mali. Manhasset, N: Kilima House Publishers; Tenafly, NJ: The African Art Museum of the SMA Fathers, 2006. [Reviewed by Wayne D. Barton in African Studies Review (New Brunswick) 50, No. 1 (April 2007): pp. 210-211.]

Imperato, Pascal J. "Kereka Blankets of the Peul." African Arts (Los Angeles) 9, no. 3 (1976): pp. 56-59.

Imperato, Pascal J. "Wool Blankets of the Peul of Mali." African Arts (Los Angeles) 9, no. 3 (1973): pp. 40-47.

Inskeep, Roy R. "Making an Honest Manin Oxford: Good News for Mali." Antiquity (Oxford) 66, no. 250 (1992): p. 114.

Insoll, Timothy. "Iron Age Gao: An Archaeological Contribution." Journal of African History 38 (1997): pp. 1-30.

Insoll, Timothy. Islam, Archaeology and History: Gao Region (Mali) ca. AD 900-1250. BAR International Series 647. Oxford: BAR, 1996.

Joleaud, Léonce. "La Mission Monod en Mauritanie et au Soudan." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 5, no. 2 (1935): p. 262-272.

Lauber, Wolfgang, et. al. "L’Architecture Dogon." Arts d’Afrique Noire 106 (Summer 1998): pp. 22-32.

Lauber, Wolfgang, et. al. "L’Architecture Dogon (suite)." Arts d’Afrique Noire 107 (Autumn 1998): pp. 11-19.

Lauber, Wolfgang, et. al. L’Architecture Dogon: constructions en terre au Mali. Paris: Adam Biro, 1998.

Leiris, Michel. "Faîtes des cases des rives du Bani." Minotaure 2 (1933): pp. ????.

Lester, P. "Découvertes préhistoriques de M. Waterlot au Soudan français." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 3, no. 2 (1933): pp. 349-350.

Lifszyc, Deborah and Denise Paulme. "Les fêtes des semailles en 1935 chez les Dogou de Sanga." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 6, no. 1 (1936): pp. 95-110.

Maas, Pierre. "Djenné: Living Tradition." Aramco World 41, no.6 (1990): pp. 18-29.

Maas, Pierre and Geert Mommersteeg. Djenné: Chef-d’Œuvre Architectural. Amsterdam: Institut Royal des Tropiques and Paris: Karthala, 1992.

Maas, Pierre and Geert Mommersteeg. "Fishing in the Pondo." Aramco World 41, no.4 (1990): pp. 22-31.

MacDonald, K. C. "Djenne: A Thousand Year-Old City in Mali." African Archaeological Review 13, no.1-2 (1996): pp. 147-152.

Mateos Gonzalez, Carmen. "Los Dogones: mito y realidad." Cuadernos (Madrid) 6, no. 4 (Feb. 1992): pp. 1-18.

Mauny, Raymond A. "Ancient capital of the land of gold." Practical anthropology 8, no. 3 (1961): pp. 135-138.

Mauny, Raymond. Gravures, peintures et inscriptions rupestres de l'Ouest africain. Dakar: IFAN, 1954.

Mauny, Raymond A. "Niani, Ex-Capitale de l’Empire Manding." Bulletin de l’IFAN 82 (1959): pp. 51-56.

Mauny, Raymond. "Notes d'archéologie au sujet de Gao." Bulletin IFAN (Dakar) 13 (1951): pp. 837-852.

Mauny, Raymond. "Notes d'archéologie sur Tombouctou." Bulletin IFAN (Dakar) 14 (1952): pp. 899-918.

Mauny, Raymond. "La Tour et la mosquée de l'Askia Mohammed à Gao." Notes Africaines (Paris) 47 (1950): pp. 66-67.

Mauny, Raymond A. "Une ville ancienne du Soudan: Tombouctou." Brousse 7, nouv.ser. (1955): pp. 24-31.

McIntosh, Roderick J. Ancient Middle Niger: Urbanism and the Self-Organizing Landscape. Case Studies in Early Societies 7. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

McIntosh, Roderick J. “From Traditional African Art to the Archaeology of Form in the Middle Niger,” in Dall'archeologia all'arte tradizionale africana/De l'archéologie à l'art traditionnel africain/From Archaeology to Traditonal African Art: A cura di Gigi Pezzoli, pp. 145-151. Milano: Centro Studi Archeologia Africana, 1992.

McIntosh, Roderick J. and Susan Keech McIntosh. "Cities Without Citadels: Understanding Urban Origins Along the Middle Niger." Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns edited by Thurston Shaw, pp. 622-641. London: Routledge, 1993.

McIntosh, Roderick J. and Susan Keech McIntosh. "Dilettantism and Plunder: Illicit Traffic in Ancient Malian Art." Museum 38, no. 1 (1986): pp. 49-57.

McIntosh, Roderick J. and Susan Keech McIntosh. "Early city in West Africa: towards an understanding." African archaeological review 2 (1984): pp. 73-98. 1984.

McIntosh, Roderick J. and Susan Keech McIntosh. "Excavation and survey at Djenne-Djeno, Mali: preliminary results of the 1977 field season." Proceedings of the 8th Panafrican Congress of Prehistory and Quaternary Studies, pp. 369-372. Nairobi: International Louis Leakey Memorial Institute for African Prehistory, 1980.

McIntosh, Roderick J. and Susan Keech McIntosh. "Finding West Africa’s Oldest City." National Geographic (Sept. 1982): pp. 396-418.

McIntosh, Roderick J. and Susan Keech McIntosh. "Forgotten tells of Mali: new evidence of urban beginnings in West Africa." Expedition 25, no. 2 (1983): pp. 35-46.

McIntosh, Roderick J. and Susan Keech McIntosh. "The inland Niger delta before the empire of Mali: evidence from Jenne-Jeno." Journal of African History 22, no. 1 (1981): pp. 1-22.

McIntosh, Roderick J. and Susan Keech McIntosh. Prehistoric Investigations in the Region of Jenne, Mali: A Study in the Development of Urbanism in the Sahel. Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 2. BAR International Series 89. Oxford: BAR, 1980.

McIntosh, Roderick J. and Susan Keech McIntosh. "West African Prehistory." American Scientist 69 (1981): pp. 602-13.

McIntosh, Roderick J. and Susan Keech McIntosh. "The 1981 Field Season at Jenne-Jenno: Preliminary Results." Nyame Akuma 20 (1982): pp. 28-32.

McIntosh, Roderick J. and Susan Keech McIntosh. "La Médersa de Djenné." Bulletin du Comité de l’Afrique Français (Sept. 9, 1907): p. 326.

McNaughton, Patrick R. The Mande Blacksmiths: Knowledge, Power and Art in West Africa. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988.

Meillassoux, Claude. "Plans d’anciennes fortifications (tata) en pays Malinké." Journal de la société des africanistes 26, no. 1 (1966): pp. ????.

Monteil, Charles Victor. "Une cité Soudanaise, Djenné métropole du delta central du Niger." Anthropos (1971): pp, ????.

N’Diaye, Francine. "Contribution à l’étude de l’architecture Dogon." Objets et mondes 12, no. 3 (1972): ????.

Nicholas, Guy. "Un village Bouzou du Niger." Cahiers d’outre-mer 15, no. 58 (1962): pp. ????.

Paques, Viviana. "Quelques notes dur l’habitation dans le cercle de Bougouni." Notes africaines 71 (1956): pp. ????.

Paulme, Denis, André Schaeffner, and Deborah Lifchitz. Lettres de Sanga à André Schaeffner, suivi des Lettres de Sanga de Deborah Lifchitz et Denise Paulme à MIchel Leiris. Paris: Fourbis, 1992.

Prussin, Labelle. The Architecture of Djenné: African Synthesis and Transformation. Ph.D. thesis, Yale University, 1973.

Prussin, Labelle. "The Image of African Architecture in France," in Double Impact: France and Africa in the Age of Imperialism edited by G. Wesley Johnson, pp. 209-????. Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies 16. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1985.

Sauvaget, J. "Les Epitaphes royales de Gao." Bulletin IFAN 12 (1950): pp 418-440.

Snelder, Raoul. "The Great Mosque of Djenné: Its Impact Today as a Model." Mimar 12 (1984): 66-74.

Templeman, G.J. and E. Hackenitz. "Habitat et Habitations." In Investigations socio-économique de la ville de Djenné et ses environs, rapport 6: Etudes approfondies du milieu urbain edited by O. Verkoren. Utrecht: Institut de Géographie, Université d’Utrecht, 1984.

Traore, S. O., ed. "Tombouctou (histoire)." Sankore 1: pp. 2-43.

Unen, Wim van. Een Onderzoek naar de Architectuur van het Dorp Sirimou nabij de stad Djenné. Mémoire (architecture), Université de Technologie, Eindhoven, 1987.

Urvoy, Y. and Théodore Monod. "Peintures rupestres de Takoulala (Soudan français)." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 8, no. 2 (1938): pp. 97-102.

Van Beek, Walter E. A. and Pieteke M. Banga. “The Dogon and their Trees,” in Bush Base, Forest Farm: Culture, Environment and Development edited by Elisabeth Croll and David Parkin, pp. 57-75. London: Routledge, 1992.

Van Dyke, Kristina Marie. The Oral-Visual Nexus: Rethinking Visuality in Mali. Ph.D., Harvard University, 2005.

Velden, Rik van der. Moskeeën en Metselaars in de Regio van Djenné. Mémoire (architecture), Université de Technologie, Eindhoven, 1989.

Villien Rossi, M.L. "Bamako, Capitale du Mali." Cahiers d’outre-mer 16, no. 64 (1963): pp. ????.

Vogel, Susan Mullin. Living Memory: Six Sketches of Mali Today. Brooklyn, NY: First Run/Icarus Films, 2003. [Reviewed by Paul Stoller in African Arts (Los Angeles) 37, no. 4 (Winter 2004): p. 85.]

Winters, Christopher. Cities of the Pondo: The Geography of Urbanism in the Interior Niger Delta of Mali. Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1973.

Wooten, Stephen R. "Antelope Headdresses and Champion Farmers: Negotiating Meaning and Identity Through the Bamana Ciwara Complex." African Arts (Los Angeles) 33, no. 2 (Summer 2000): pp. 18-33, 89-90.

Zahan, Dominique. "The Two Worlds of Ciwara." African Arts (Los Angeles) 33, no. 2 (Summer 2000): pp. 34-45, 90-1.

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