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West Africa

Ago, Fabrizio. Moschee in Adobe: Storia e Tipologia Nell-Africa Occidentale. Rome: Kappa, 1982.

Aronson, Lisa. "The Language of West African Textiles." African Arts (Los Angeles) 25, no. 3 (July 1992): pp. 36-40, 100.

Hair, P. E. H., Adam Jones, and Robin Law, eds. Barbot on Guinea: the Writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa. 2 vols. Works Issues by the Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, no. 176. Longon: Hakluyt Society, 1992.

Betts, R.F. "Imperial Designs: French Colonial Architecture and Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa," in Double Impact: France and Africa in the Age of Imperialism edited by G.W. Johnson, pp. 191-207. Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies 16. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.

Craddock, P.T. and J. Picton "Medieval Copper Production and West African Bronze Analyses." Archaeometry 28, no. 1 (1986): pp. 3-32.

Delange, Jacqueline. "L'art peul." Cahiers d'études africaines (Paris) 4, no. 13, c. 1 (1963): pp. 5-13.

Delange, Jacqueline. "Les Peul," in Arts et peuples de l'Afrique noire: introduction à une analyse des créations plastiques, pp. 101-15. Bibliothèques des sciences humaines. Paris: Libraire Gallimard, 1967.

Frank, Barbara E. "Caste Versus Craft: Transformations in Identity and Artistry among the Mande-speaking Peoples of West Africa," in Redefining the 'Artisan': Traditional Technicians in Changing Societies: Papers from the First Conference on Artists, Artisans and Traditional Technologies in Development, April 14-16, 1989 edited by Paul Greenough with Jackie Hogan, pp. 169-188. Iowa City: Center for International and Comparative Studies, University of Iowa, 1992.

Gupta, D. Urbanization in Pre-Colonial West Africa. Africa Quarterly 22, no. 3 (n.d.): pp. 27-40.

History, Design, and Craft in West African Strip-Woven Cloth. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of African Art, 1992. [Reviewed by Elisha P. Renne, African Arts (Los Angeles) 26, no. 3 (July 1993): pp. 30-1, 83, 88.

Imoagene, S.O. "Urbanism, Urbanization and Underdevelopment: The West African Experience," in Town Talk: The Dynamics of Urban Anthropology edited by G. Ansari and P.J.M. Nas, pp. 65-83. Leiden: Brill, 1983.

Joleaud, Léonce. "La Mission Waterlot en Afrique Occidentale Française." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 5, no. 2 (1935): p. 261-262.

Kennedy, Jean. "New Dynamics: The West African Coast," in New Currents, Ancient Rivers: Contemporary African Artists in a Generation of Change, pp. 87-94. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.

Kriger, Colleen E. Cloth in West African History. African Archaeology Series. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2006.

Lamp, Frederick. African Art of the West Atlantic Coast: Transition in Form and Content. New York: L. Kahan Gallery, 1979. [Reviewed by Warren L. d'Azevedo in African Arts (Los Angeles) 14, no. 1 (Nov. 1980): pp. 81-6.]

Leiris, Michel. "Mission de G. Walerlot en A.O.F.." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 8, no. 2 (1938): p. 208-209.

Liscombe, Rhodri Windsor. "Modernism in Late Imperial British West Africa: The Work of Maxwell Frdy and Jane Drew, 1946-1956." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (Chicago) 65, no. 2 (June 2006): pp. 188-215.

Martinelli, Bruno. "Agriculteurs métallurgistes et forgerons en Afrique Soudano-Sahélienne." Etudes Rurales (Paris) 125-126 (Jan-June 1992): pp. 25-41, 197, 199-200.

Miège, Jacques. "Couleurs, teintures et plantes tinctoriales en Afrique occidentale." Bulletin du Centre Genevoise d'Antropologie (Geneva) 3 (1991-1992): pp. 115-131.

Nomades. Quebec: Musée de la Civilisation, 1992.

Okpoko, A. Ikechukwu. "Problems of Archaeological Heritage Management in West Africa." Ikoro: Bulletin of the Institute of African Studies (Nsukka) 7, no. 1-2 (June 1992): pp. 68-76.

Pfaff, F. "Cinema in Francophone West Africa." Africa Quarterly 22, no. 3 (n.d.): pp. 41-8.

Prasse, Karl G. The Tuareg: The Blue People. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1995. [Reviewed online by Kristyne Loughran on H-Net, available at http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=5673875290498.]

Renne, E.P. "The Thierry Collection of Hausa Artifacts at the Field Museum." African Arts 19, no. 4 (1986): pp. 54-8, 88.

Savary, Claude. "Rites des prémices d'igname en Afrique de l'Ouest." Bulletin du Centre Genevoise d'Anthropologie (Geneva) 3 (1991-1992): pp. 133-145.

Schacht, Joseph. "Sur la diffusion des formes d'architecture religieuse musulmane à travers le Sahara." Travaux de l'Institut de Recherche Sahariennes 11, no. 1 (1954): pp. 11-27.

Stevens, Phyllis Ferguson. Aspects of Muslim Architecture in the Dyula Region of the Western Sudan. Legon: University of Ghana, 1968.

Tastevin, R. P. "Mission Waterlot en A. O. F." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 6, no. 2 (1936): pp. 233-234.

Thomas, Benjamin E. "The Location and Nature of West African Cities," in Urbanization and Migration in West Africa edited by Hilda Kuper, pp. ????. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965.

Tuma be: Alltagskultur der westafrikanischen Savanne. Tubingen: E. Wasmuth, 1992.

Zeltner, Fr. de. "La bijouterie indigène en Afrique occidentale." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 1, no. 1 (1931): pp. 43-48.

Zeltner, Fr. de. "Les boîtes en cuir moulé du Soudan." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 2, no. 1 (1932): pp. 23-34.

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