A Collection African Studies Bibliographies and Archival Materials

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• Agathe, J. Wegzeichen: Kunst aux Ostafrika, 1974-1989/Signs: Art from East Africa, 1974-1989. Frankfurt am Main: Museum für Völkerkunde, 1990.
• Allen, James de Vere. "Swahili Architecture in the Later Middle Ages." African Arts (Los Angeles) 7, no. 2 (Winter 1974): pp. 42-47, 66-68, 83-84.
• Allen, James de Vere. "Swahili Culture and the Nature of East Coast Settlement." The International Journal of African Historical Studies 14, no. 2 (1981): pp. 306-334.
• Allen, James de Vere. "Swahili Ornament: A Study of the Decoration of the Eighteenth Century Plaster Work and Carved Doors of the Lamu Region." Art and Archaeology Research Papers 3 (1973): pp. 1-14; 4 (1973): pp. 87-92.
• Allen, James de Vere and Sidney L. Kasfir. Islamic Arts: An Exhibition of Traditional Islamic Decorative Arts and Furniture of East Africa from the Lamu Archipelago, Zanzibar, and the West Indian Ocean Littoral, Nommo Gallery, March 6-31, 1969. Kampala: Nommo Gallery, 1969.
• Beck, Rose Marie. "Texts on Textiles: Proverbiality as Characteristic of Equivocal Communication at the East African Coast (Swahili)." Journal of African Cultural Studies (London) 17, no. 2 (Dec. 2005): pp. 131-160.
• Chrétien, Jean-Pierre. "Colloque de Bujumbura sur «la civilisation ancienne des peuples des grands lacs»." Journal des africanistes 49, no. 2 (1979): pp. 152-153.
• Croucher, Sarah and Stephanie Wynne-Jones. "People, not Pots: Locally Produced Ceramics and Identity on the Nineteenth-Century East African Coast." International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston) 39, no. 1 (2006): pp. 107-124.
• Horton, Mark. “Primitive Islam and Architecture in East Africa,” Muqarnas 8 (1991): pp. 103-116.
• Horton, Mark. "Swahili Architecture: Space and Social Structure," in Architecture and Order: Approaches to Social Space edited by Michael Parker Pearson and Colin Richards, pp. 132-152. London: Routledge, 1994.
• Kirkman, James S. “The Early History of the Spread of Islam in the Western Indian Ocean.” Art and Archaeology Research Papers 9 (1976): pp. 5-12.
• Kirkman, James S. Men and Monuments on the East African Coast. London, 1964.
• Kirkman, James S. “A Note on the Ceramics of East Africa.” Post-Medieval Ceramic Research Group, Broadsheet No. 3, Sept. 1965, pp. 21-22.
• Lewcock, Ronald. "Zanj, The East African Coast," in Shelter in Africa edited by Paul Oliver, pp. 80-95. New York: Praeger, 1971.
• Meier, Sandy Prita. “Chinese Porcelain and Muslim Port Cities: Mercantile Materiality in Coastal East Africa.” Art History 38, no. 4 (Sept. 2015): pp. 702-717.
• Meier, Prita. Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere. African Expressive Cultures. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2016. [Reviewed by Emily Williamson in H-Net Reviews (Dec. 2017).]
• Nkunzimana, Obed. "Beyond colonial stereotypes: reflections on postcolonial cinema in the African Great Lakes region." Journal of African Cinemas 1, no. 1 (Oct. 2009): pp. 79-93.
• Obudho, R.A. "Planning from Below: The Role of Small Urban Centers in Spatial Development in East Africa," in Equity with Growth?: Planning Perspectives for Small Towns in Developing Countries edited by H.D. Kammeier and P.J. Swan, pp. 134-54. Bangkok: Asian Institute of Technology, 1984.
• Pales, Léon. "L'abbé Breuil (1877-1961): Séquences africaines du sud et de l'est." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 32, no. 1 (1962): pp. 7-52.
• Posnansky, Merrick. "Historical Archaeology in the East Midlands and East Africa: Personal Reflections." Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage 2, no. 2 (Nov. 2013): pp. 172-176.