A Collection African Studies Bibliographies and Archival Materials

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• Armes, Roy. Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005.
• Atil, Esin. Art of the Arab World. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1975.
• Aumassip, Ginette. "Note sur la poterie du Djebel Ouenat." Dossiers et recherches sur l'Afrique (Meudon) 1 (1992): pp. 5-34.
• Balfet, H.  “Ethnographical Observations in North Africa and Archaeological Interpretation: The Pottery of the Maghrib,” in Ceramics and Man edited by Frederick R. Matson, pp. 161-177.  Viking Fund Publications in Antrhopology 41.  New York: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 1965.
• Barbar, Aghil M. The Architecture of the Mosques in Muslim North Africa: A Bibliography. Architecture Series: Bibliography A-86. Monticello, IL: Vance Bibliographies, Sept. 1979.
• Barich, Barbara E. Hunters Vs. Pastoralists in the Sahara: Material Culture and Symbolic Aspects. BAR International Series 1338. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2005.
• Benfoughal, Tatiana. "Production et commercialisation des vanneries dans les oasis du Sahara1." Journal des africanistes 77, no. 1 (2007): pp. 112-140.
• Bernasek, Lisa. Artistry of the Everyday: Beauty and Craftsmanship in Berber Art. Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University, 2008. [Review by Amanda Rogers available online on H-Net.org, Feb. 2010.]
• Boisseau, Pierre, and François Soleilhavoup. "Pierres à rainures du Sahara paléotechnologies des cordes, des peaux et des cuirs." L'anthropologie (Paris) 96, no. 4 (1992): pp. 797-806.
• Camps, Gabriel. Les civilisations préhistoriques de l'Afrique du Nord et du Sahara. Paris: Doin, 1974. [Review by Guy de Beauchêne available online in Journal de la Société des Africanistes 44, no. 2 (1974): pp. 202-203.]
• Camps, Gabriel. "Funerary Monuments with Attached Chapels from the Northern Sahara." The African Archaeological Review (Cambridge) 4 (1986): pp. 151-164.
• Camps, Gabriel. Monuments et rites funéraires protohistoriques: Aux origines de la Berbérie. Paris: Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1961.
• Camps-Fabrer, Henriette and B. Dudot. "Bracelets de pierre," in Encyclopédie berbère, volume 11. Bracelets-Caprarienses, pp. 1603-1607. Aix-en-Provence, France: EDISUD, 1992.
• Cresswell, K. A. C. A Bibliography of the Architecture, Arts and Crafts of Islam. Cairo: A.U.C. Press, 1961.
• Cresswell, K. A. C. A Bibliography of the Architecture, Arts and Crafts of Islam. Supplement. Cairo: A.U.C. Press, 1973.
• Cresswell, K. A. C. A Bibliography of the Architecture, Arts and Crafts of Islam. Second Supplement, edited by J. D. Pearson. Cairo: A.U.C. Press, 1984.
• Creswell, K. A. C. Early Muslim Architecture. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932-1940.
• Creswell, K. A. C. A Short Account of Early Muslim Architecture. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1958.
• Creswell, K. A. C. A Short Account of Early Muslim Architecture. Revised and Supplemented by James W. Allen. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1989.
• Davies, Kristian. The Orientalists: Western Artists in Arabia, the Sahara, Persia & India. New York: Laynfaroh, 2005.
• Deroche, François. "O. Houdas et les écritures maghrebines," in Le manuscrit arabe et la codicologie edited by Ahmed-Chouqui Binebine, pp. 75-81. Rabat: Faculté des lettres, et des sciences humaines, 1994.
• Effros, Bonnie. Incidental Archaeologists: French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018. [Review by Kimberly Cassibry, review available online in H-France Review 20 (2020): p. 1]
• Ettinghausen, Richard and Oleg Grabar. The Art and Architecture of Islam, 650-1250. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.
• Foulon, F. "Une nouvelle philosophie de la planification urbaine au Maghreb." L'Afrique et l'Asie Modernes 147 (1985-1986): pp. 78-91.
• Gast, Marceau. "Cadenas," in Encyclopédie berbère, volume 11. Bracelets-Caprarienses, pp. 1692-1696. Aix-en-Provence, France: EDISUD, 1992.
• Gast, Marceau. "Calebasse ou gourde," in Encyclopédie berbère, volume 11. Bracelets-Caprarienses, pp. 1710-1713. Aix-en-Provence, France: EDISUD, 1992.
• Gaussen, J. "Quelques objets en pierre polie du Néolithique saharien." Bulletin trimestriel. Société d'Anthropologie du Sud-Ouest (Bordeaux) 27 (1992): pp. 157-166.
• Golvin, L. "Le legs des Ottomans dans le domaine artistique en Afrique du Nord." Revue de l'Occident Musulman et de la Méditerranée 39 (1985): pp. 201-26.
• Guilhembet, Jean-Pierre. "Architecture et vie privée des élites de l'Afrique romaine: l'apport des travaux d'Yvon Thébert et l'historiographie récente (1985-2003)." Afrique & Histoire (Paris) 3 (March 2003): pp. ????.
• Hanoune, Roger. "En relisant l'architecture domestique en l'Afrique romaine." Afrique & Histoire (Paris) 3 (March 2003): pp. ????.
• Holl, Augustin F. C. Holocene Saharans: An Anthropological Perspective. New Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology. London: Continuum, 2004.
• Hugot, Henri J. Le Sahara avant le désert. Collection Archéologie, horizons neufs. n.p.: Éditions des Hespérides, 1974. [Review by Guy de Beauchêne available online in Journal de la Société des Africanistes 44, no. 2 (1974): p. 210.]
• Hyland, A. D. C. and Ahmed al-Shahi, eds. The Arab House: Proceedings of the Colloquium Held in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 15-16 March 1984. Newcastle upon Tyne: Centre for Architetural Research and Development Overseas, 1986. [Reviewed by Paul Oliver, review available online in JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 18, no. 1 (1987): pp. 92-94.]
• Jelinek, Jan. "Some Ideas on the Possibilities and Traps of the Saharan Rock Art Chronology," in L'arte e l'ambiente del Sahara preistorico: dati e interpretazioni edited by Giulio Calegari, pp. 269-282. Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 26, Fasc. 2. Milan: Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, 1993.
• Joleaud, Léonce. "Gravures rupestres et rites de l'eau en Afrique du Nord, II. Rôle de l'éléphant dans la magie préhistorique et dans les légéndes populaire historique de la Berbèrie." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 4, no. 2 (1934): pp. 285-302.
• Joleaud, Léonce. "Gravures rupestres et rites de l'eau en Afrique du Nord: Role des bovins, des ovins et des caprins dans la magie Berbères préhistorique et actuelle." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 3, no. 1 (1933): pp. 197-282.
• Kealhofer, Leslie. Muslim women in French cinema: voices of Maghrebi migrants in France. Contemporary French and francophone cultures 41. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015.
• Le Quellec, Jean-Loïc. "Rock Art, Scripts and Proto-Scripts in Africa: The Lybico-Berber Example," in Written Culture in a Colonial Context: Africa and the Americas 1500-1900 edited by Adrien Delmas and Nigel Penn, pp. 3-29. Leiden: Brill, 2012.
• Lefranc, Jean-Phillippe. "La christianisation des Berbères Haouara: Ses traces dans le culte des saints et l'usage des sonnailles chez les Touareg actuels," in Histoire et archéologie de l'Afrique du Nord: Spectacles, vie portuaire, religions: Actes du Vème Colloque international réuni dans le cadre du 115e Congrès national des Sociétés savantes (Avignon, 9-13 avril 1990), pp. 255-264. Paris: Editions du CTHS, 1992.
• Lhote, Henri. "L'abbé Breuil et le Sahara." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 32, no. 1 (1962): pp. 63-74.
• Lhote, Henri. "Le campement touareg," in Encyclopédie berbère, volume 11. Bracelets-Caprarienses, pp. 1729-1731. Aix-en-Provence, France: EDISUD, 1992.
• Lhote, Henri. "Le peuplement du Sahara néolithique, d'après l'interprétation des gravures et des peintures rupestres." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 40, no. 2 (1970): pp. 91-102.
• Makhloufi, Lilia, ed. Housing, Heritage and Urbanisation in the Middle East and North Africa. Open Book Publishers, 2025.
• Maraini, Toni. "L'inquiétante séduction ou la situation de la figuration dans l'art contemporain des pays du monde islamique," in Le monde islamique et l’image, special issue of Horizons Maghrébins - Le droit à la mémoire 44 (2001): pp. 28-37.
• Maraini, Toni. "Quand artistes et poètes créaient leurs moyens de communication," in Médias au Maghreb et en milieu migratoire, special issue of Horizons Maghrébins - Le droit à la mémoire 62 (2010): pp. 163-175.
• Mattingly, David J. and R. Bruce Hitchner. "Roman Africa: An Archaeological Review." The Journal of Roman Studies 85 (1995): pp. 165-213.
• Muzzolini, Alfred. "Chronologie raisonnée des diverses écoles d'art rupestre du Sahara centrale," in L'arte e l'ambiente del Sahara preistorico: dati e interpretazioni edited by Giulio Calegari, pp. 387-397. Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 26, Fasc. 2. Milan: Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, 1993.
• Opper, Marie-José. “Amulets from the Sahara.” Bead Society of Greater Washington Newsletter (Washington, DC) 9, no. 3 (July-Sept. 1992): p. 5.
• Perret, Robert. "Une carte des gravures rupestres et des peintures à l'ocre de l'Afrique du Nord." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 7, no. 1 (1937): pp. 107-123 and 7, no. 1 Suppl. (1937) for Map.
• Rosen-Ayalon, M. "Some Comments on a Maghribi Qur’an." Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 19 (1995): pp. 73-80.
• Rostaing Casini, Mireille. I segreti degli uomini blu: Alla scoperta del misterioso mondo dei Tuareg. Milan: A Mondadori, 1992.
• Slyomovics, Susan, ed. The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History: The Living Medina in the Maghrib. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2001.
• Smith, Andrew B. "New Approaches to Saharan Rock Art," in L'arte e l'ambiente del Sahara preistorico: dati e interpretazioni edited by Giulio Calegari, pp. 467-477. Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 26, Fasc. 2. Milan: Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, 1993.
• Spring, Christopher and Julie Hudson. North African Textiles. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
• Tolan-Szkilnik, Paraska. Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future. Worlding the Middle East Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023. [Reviewed online by Diana Wylie on H-Net; by Ayanda Nombila on Research Africa.]
• Van Sickle, C. E. "The Public Works of Africa in the Reign of Diocletian." Classical Philology 25, no. 2 (April 1930): pp. 173-179.
• Von Folsach, K. and J. Baek Simonsen. "North Africa and Spain," in Sultan, Shah, and Great Mughal: The History and Culture of the Islamic World, pp. 221-7. Copenhagen: National Museum, 1996.
• Vonderheyden, M. "Le henné chez les musulmans de l'Afrique du Nord." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 4, no. 1 (1934): pp. 35-61.
• Vonderheyden, M. "Le henné cher les musulmans de l'Afrique du Nord (Suite et fin)." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 4, no. 2 (1934): pp. 179-202.
• Yasin, Ann Marie. "Funerary Monuments and Collective Identity: From Roman Family to Christian Community." The Art Bulletin 87, no. 3 (Sept. 2005): pp. 433-457.