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• Abega, Séverin Cécile. Les Choses de la forêt. Les masques des princes tikar de Nditam. Yaoundé: Presses de l'Université catholique d'Afrique centrale, 2000.
• Adams, Monni. The Aesthetics of Power: Gelede Festival of the Western Yoruba. Bunting Institute Working Paper. Cambridge, MA: Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, 1984.
• Adams, Monni. "Interpretations of Masking in Black African Ritual." Africa-Tervuren (Muséd Royal de l'Afrique Centrale) (Tervuren) 27, no. 2 (1981): pp. 46-51.
• Adams, Monni. "Problèmes d'identité: Fêtes masquées chez les Wè (Guéré) de l'ouest ivoirien." Arts d'Afrique noire 62 (Summer 1987): pp. 37-48.
• Adams, Monni. "To Deny Death: Succession Rites among the Wè/Guéré, Canton Boo, Western Côte d'Ivoire." Zeitschrift für Ethnologie (Braunschweig) 117 (1992): pp. 89-116.
• Ambrósio, António. "O Danço Congo de São Tomé e as suas origens," Leba: estudos de quarternário, pré-história e arqueologia (Lisbon) 7 (1992): pp. 341-72.
• Appia, Béatrice. "Masques de Guinée française et de Casamance d'après des dessins d'enfants noirs." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 13 (1943): pp. 153-182.
• Areia, Rodrigues de, Manuel Laranjeira, and Roland Kaehr. Masques d’Angola. Neuchâtel: Musée d’ethnographie, 2009. [Reviewed by Julien Bondaz in Cahiers d'études africaines 211, no. 3 (2013): pp. 761-764.
• Argenti, Nicolas. "African Aesthetics: Moving to See the Mask." JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 23, no. 3 (1992): pp. 197-215.
• Argenti, Nicolas. "Air Youth: Performance, Violence and the State in Cameroon." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 4, no. 4 (1998): p. 753-782.
• Argenti, Nicolas. The Intestines of the State: Youth, Violence, and Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.  [Reviewed online by Scott MacEachern on H-Net, available at http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=22978; by Ian Fowler in Reviews in Anthropology 40 (2011): pp. 292-311 and in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15, no. 2 (2009): pp. 429-430; by Edna G. Bay in African Arts 42, no. 4 (2009): pp. 94-95; by Krijn Peters in Journal of Modern African Studies 47, no. 4 (2009): pp. 630-631; by Tatah Mentan in African Affairs 108, no. 432 (2009): pp. 498-499; by Mattia Fumanti in Anthropological Notebooks 14, no. 3 (2008): pp. 93-95; by Daniel Jordan Smith in African Studies Review 52, no. 1 (2009): pp. 174-176.]
• Argenti, Nicolas. "Kesum-body and the places of the gods: the politics of children's masking and second-world realities in Oku (Cameroon)." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 7, no. 1 (2001): p. 67-94.
• Balogun, Ola. "Keys to the Spirit World: African Masks." UNESCO courier (Paris) (Dec. 1990): pp. 26-27.
• Bassing, Allen. "Masques ancestraux chez les Idoma." Arts d'Afrique noire 5 (Spring 1973): pp. 6-11.
• Bayakissa, Jean-Claude. "L'imaginaire du masque africain." Cahiers congolais de l'imaginaire (Brazzaville) 1 (Jan. 1988): pp. 4-11.
• Biebuyck, Daniel P. "The Kindi Aristocrats and Their Art among the Lega," in African Art and Leadership edited by Douglas Fraser and Herbert M. Cole, pp. 7-20. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1972.
• Biebuyck, Daniel P. Lega Culture: Art, Initiation, and Moral Philosophy Among a Central African People. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.
• Biebuyck, Daniel P. Lega: Ethics and Beauty in the Heart of Africa. Brussels: KBC Banking & Insurance; Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 2002.
• Binkley, David A. “Masks, Space and Gender in Southern Kuba Initiation Ritual,” Iowa Studies in African Art (Iowa City) 3 (1990): pp. 157-176.
• Birch de Aguilar, Laurel. Inscribing the Mask: Interpretations of Nyau Masks and Ritual Performance Among the Chewa of Central Malawi. Studia Insituti Anthropos 47. Fribourg, Switzerland: University Press, 1996.
• Biro, Yaëlle. "The Canon and Its Consequences: The Reception of Bamileke Tsesah Crests." Tribal Art Magazine 22, no. 2 (Spring 2018): pp. 118-131.
• Blackmun, Barbara Winston and J. M. Schoffeleers. "Masks of Malawi." African Arts (Los Angeles) 5, no. 4 (Summer 1972): pp. 36-41, 69, 88.
• Bourgeois, Arthur P. "Helmut-shaped Masks from the Kwango-Kwilu Region and Beyond.” Iowa Studies in African Art (Iowa City) 3 (1990): pp. 121-136.
• Bourgeois, Arthur P. "Initiation und Inthronisation bei den Yaka in Zaïre," in Männer Bande, Männer Bünde: zur Rolle des Mannes in Kulturvergleich, vol. 1, edited by Gisela Völger and Karin v. Welck, pp. 301-308. Cologne: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, 1990.
• Bourgeois, Arthur P. "Kakungu among the Yaka and Suku." African Arts (Los Angeles) 14, no. 1 (Nov. 1980): pp. 42-46, 88.
• Bourgeois, Arthur P. "Mbawa-Pakasa: L'image du buffle chez les Yaka et leurs voisins." Arts d'Afrique noire 77 (Spring 1991): pp. 19-32.
• Bravmann, René. "Masking Tradition and Figurative Art Among the Islamized Mande," in African Images: Essays in African Iconology edited by Daniel F. McCall and Edna G. Bay, pp. 144-169. Boston University Papers on Africa 6. New York: Africana Publishing Co., 1975.
• Campbell, Kenneth F. "L'agwe, Masque spécifiquement Widekum = Agwe, Unique Mask of of the Widekum." Arts d'Afrique noire (Arnouville) 67 (Autumn 1988): pp. 17-27.
• Capron, J. "Quelques notes sur la société du do chez les populations B^wa du cercle de San." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 27, no. 1 (1957): pp. 81-129.
• Crowley, Daniel J. "The Carnival of Guinea-Bissau." TDR: The Drama Review (Cambridge) 33, no. 2 (summer 1989): pp. 74-86.
• Deluz, Ariane. "Le meurtre de la mère dans le culte du Zamble." Journal des Africanistes (Paris) 62, no. 2 (1992): pp. 183-191.
• Drewal, Henry John. "Flaming Crowns, Cooling Waters: Masquerades of the Ijebu Yoruba." African Arts 20, no. 1 (1986): pp. 32-41.
• Drewal, Henry John and Margaret Thompson Drewal. Gelede: Art and Female Power among the Yoruba. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1983.
• Dupré, Marie-Claude. “Masques de danse ou cartes géopolitiques? L'invention de Kidumu chez les Téké tsayi au 19e siècle (République populaire du Congo)." Cahier des sciences humaines (Paris) 26, no. 3 (1990): pp. 447-471.
• Dupré, Marie-Claude. “Le retour du masque." Afrique et Anitlles francophones edited by Claude Bouygues. Special Edition of Contemporary French Civilization (Bozeman) 14, no. 2 (1990): pp. 166-180.
• Essomba, Joseph-Marie. L'Art traditionnel au Cameroun: statues et masques. Suresnes (France): Jean Dupuch, 1982.
• Famule, Olawole Francis. Art and Spirituality: The Ijumu Northeastern-Yoruba Egungun. Ph.D., U. of Arizona, 2005.
• Fardon, Richard. Fusions: Masquerades and Thought Style East of the Niger-Benue Confluence, West Africa. London: Saffron, 2007.
• Faulkner, Laurel Birch. "Basketry Masks of the Chewa." African Arts (Los Angeles) 21, no. 3 (May 1988): pp. 28-31, 86.
• Faulkner, Laurel Birch. Kasiyamaliro, Symbol and Sign: A Structural Analysis of Chewa Masked Dance. M.A. Thesis, Antioch University, 1991.
• Fischer, Eberhard and Hans Himmelheber. The Arts of the Dan in West Africa. Zürich: Museum Rietberg, 1984.
• Fischer, Eberhard, Hans Himmelheber, and Ulrike Himmelheber. Guro: masks, performances, and master carvers in Ivory Coast. Zurich: Museum Rietberg; Munich and New York: Prestel, 2008.
• Fischer, Eberhard and Lorenz Homberger. Masks in Guro Culture, Ivory Coast. Zürich: Museum Rietberg and New York: The Center for African Art, 1986.
• Forni, Silvia and Dominique Malaquais. "Village Matters, City Works: Ideas, Technologies, and Dialogues in the Work of Hervé Youmbi." Critical Interventions 12, no. 3 (2018): pp. 294-305.
• Förster, Till. "Leben und Arbeit: Über Kunst und Gesellschaft bei den Senufo II," in Die Fremde Form: l'Esthétique des autres edited by Wolfgang Marschall, Meinhard Schuster, and Theres Gähwiler-Walder, pp. 149-170. Ethnologica Helvetica 16. Berne: Schweizerische Ethnologische Gesellschaft, 1992.
• Geary, Christraud M. "Männerbünde im Kameruner Grasland," in Männer Bande, Männer Bünde: zur Rolle des Mannes in Kulturvergleich edited by Gisela Völger and Karin v. Welck, vol. 1, pp. 295-300. Cologne: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, 1990.
• Gessain, Monique. La femme et le masque ou l’éloge de l’équilibre chez les Bassari. Paris: SEPIA, 2006. [Reviewed by Marie-Noël Verger-Fèvre, review available online in Journal des africanistes 77, no. 1 (2007): pp. 162-166.]
• Ghent, Gregory. The African Mask as Sculpture: September 10-October 5, 1990, University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico. Chico, CA: University Art Gallery, 1990.
• Gottschalk, Burkhard. Bundu: Buschteufel im Land der Mende. Düsseldorf: U. Gottschalk, 1990.
• Gottschalk, Burkhard. Bundu: Bush-Devils in the Land of the Mende. Düsseldorf: U. Gottschalk, 1992. [Reviewed by Ruth B. Phillips in African Arts (Los Angeles) 27, no. 2 (April 1994) pp. 20, 22-24, 92; Response by Burkhard Gottschalk, “An Open Letter to Ruth Phillips on the Review of Bundu: Bush-Devils in the Land of the Mende (1992),” in African Art (Los Angeles) 29, no. 1 (Winter 1995): pp. 11-12, 14.]
• Griaule, Marcel. "Un masque du Mont Tabi." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 14 (1944): pp. 25-32.
• Griaule, Marcel. Masques dogons. Travaux et mémoires de l'institut d'ethnologie 32. Paris: Institut d'Ethnologie, 1938. [Reviewed by P. Lester, review available online in Journal de la Société des Africanistes 9, no. 2 (1939): p. 218-221.]
• Griaule, Marcel. "Notes complémentaires sur les masques Dogons." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 10 (1940): pp. 79-85.
• Griaule, Marcel. "Notes sur les masques des Kouroumba." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 11 (1941): pp. 224-225.
• Guye, Gilbert. "Avec les hommes-Calao du Tchad." Balafon (Abidjan) 85 (Nov.-Dec. 1988): pp. 10-18.
• Hart, W.A. "Aron Arabai: The Temne Mask of Chieftaincy." African Arts 19, no. 2 (1986): pp. 41-5.
• Harter, Pierre. "Four Bamileke Masks: An Attempt to Identify the Style of Individual Carvers or Their Workshops." Man 4, no. 3 (Sept. 1969): pp. 410-418.
• Harter, Pierre. "Les masques dite «Batcham»." Arts d'Afrique noire 3 (1972): pp. 18-45.
• Harter, Pierre. "Organisation des masques du Yahabeu, chez les Göh de Côte-d'Ivoire." Arts d'Afrique noire 61 (Spring 1987): pp. 21-34.
• Hata, Nobuyuki and Kenji Yoshida. Sekido Afurika no Kamen. Suita-shi: Kokuritsu Minzokugaku Hakubutsukan, Hesei 2, 1990.
• Herold, Erich. African Art. London: Hamlyn, 1990.
• Herold, Erich. Afrikanishe Skulptur: Stilformen und Tradition. Hanau: Verlaf Werner Dausien, 1989.
• Herold, Erich. Rites et coutumes dans l'art africain. Paris: Aurore éditions d'art, 1989.
• Hersak, Dunja. "Further Perspectives on Kifwebe Masquerades." African Arts 53, no. 1 (Spring 2020): pp. 6-23.
• Homberger, Lorenz, Christraud M. Geary, and Hans-Joachim Koloss. Cameroon: Art and Kings. Zürich: Museum Rietberg, 2008.
• Isichei, Elizabeth. "Change in Anaguta Traditional Religion." Canadian Journal of African Studies (Toronto) 25, no. 1 (1991): pp. 34-57.
• Jedrej, M.C. "A Comparison of Some Masks from North America, Africa, and Melanesia." Journal of Anthropological Research (Albuquerque) 36, no. 21 (Summer 1980): pp. 220-230.
• Jedrej, M.C. "Dan and Mende Masks: A Structural Comparison." Africa 56, no. 1 (1986): pp. 71-80.
• Kasfir, S.L. Art in History, History in Art: The Idoma Ancestral Masquerade as Historical Evidence. Working Papers 103. Boston, MA: African Studies Center, Boston University, 1985.
• Koloss, Hans-Joachim. Kamerun: Könige, Masken, Feste: Ethnologische Forschungen im Grasland der Nordwest-Provinz von Kamerun. Stuttgart: Auslandsbeziehungen Stuttgart; Linden-Museums Stuttgart, 1977.
• Kubik, Gerhard and Moya Aliya Malamusi. Nyau: Maskenbünde im südlichen Malawi. Sitzungsberichte: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse 485. Veröffentlichungen der ethnologischen Kommission 4. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1987.
• Lawal, Babatunde. The Gelede Spectacle: Art, Gender, and Social Harmony in an African Culture. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1996.
• Le Moal, G. Les Bobo: Essai sur la nature et la fonction des masques. Ph.D., Université René Descartes, 1977. [Review available online in Journal des africanistes 47, no. 2 (1977): pp. 241-242.]
• Lehuard, Raoul. "Batcham: Sculptures du Cameroun - à Marseille." Arts d'Afrique noire 89 (Spring 1994): pp. 29-31.
• Lehuard, Raoul. "La face des esprits: Les masques du bassin du Zäire." Arts d'Afrique noire 87 (Autumn 1993): pp. 15-18.
• Lehuard, Raoul. "Les Ijo, Oturkpo & Nkporo chex Maud & René Garcia." Arts d'Afrique noire 63 (Autumn 1987): pp. 34-37.
• Lehuard, Raoul. "Des masques-requins de l'Egbukele chez Maud & René Garcia." Arts d'Afrique noire 75 (Autumn 1990): pp. 16-18.
• Lehuard, Raoul. "De l'origine du masque 'tsaye'." Arts d'Afrique noire 4 (Winter 1972): pp. 12-37.
• Lehuard, Raoul. "De l'origine du masque 'tsaye': Suite de l'étude parue dans notre no 4, Hiver 1972." Arts d'Afrique noire 23 (Autumn 1977): pp. 10-15.
• Lehuard, Raoul. "Le Sande à la Galerie Balolu." Arts d'Afrique noire 77 (Spring 1991): pp. 13-15.
• Mark, Peter. The Wild Bull and the Sacred Forest: Form, Meaning, and Change in Senegambian Initiation Masks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. [Reviewed by Monni Adams in International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston) 26, no. 2 (1992): pp. 407-409; Thomas O. Beidelman in Anthropos (Fribourg) 88, no. 1-3 (1992): pp. 261-262; Lisa Aronson in African Studies Review (Atlanta) 36, no. 3 (Dec. 1993): pp. 148-151; Josette Rivallain in Journal des Africanistes (Paris) 63, no. 2 (1992): pp. 128-130; Michael C. Lambert in Museum Anthropology (Arlington) 18, no. 2 (June 1994): pp. 61-62.]
• Mateos Gonzalez, Carmen. "Los Dogones: mito y realidad." Cuadernos (Madrid) 6, no. 4 (Feb. 1992): pp. 1-18.
• McNaughton, Patrick R. A Bird Dance near Saturday City: Sidi Ballo and the Art of West African Masquerade. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. [Reviewed online by Mary Jo Arnoldi on CAA Reviews, available to members of CAA at http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/1338.]
• Meur, Charles. "Approche des masques sculptés du sud-ouest et du centre de Tanzanie." Arts d'Afrique noire 92 (Winter 1994): pp. 23-33.
• Muller, Jean-Claude. "Inside, Outside, and Inside Out: Masks, Rulers, and Gender among the Dìì and Their Neighbors." African Arts 34, no. 1 (Spring 2001): pp. 58-71, 95-96.
• Neyt, François. "Masque-éléphant et statuaire des Igbo." Arts d'Afrique noire 32 (Winter 1979): pp. 29-45.
• Nicklin, Keith. "Skin Covered Masks of Cameroon." African Arts 12, no. 2 (Feb. 1979): pp. 54-59, 91-92.
• Ottenberg, Simon and Linda Knudsen. "Leopard Society Masquerades: Symbolism and Diffusion." African Arts 18, no. 2 (Feb. 1985): pp. 37-44,93-95, 103-104.
• Pemunta, Ngambouk Vitalis, Tabi Chama-James Tabenyang, and Mathias Alubafi Fubah. “Communitarianism and the Obasinjom mask performance as ritual healing among the Bayang and Ejagham of Southwest Cameroon,” in Rituals Practices, Ethnic and Cultural Aspects and Role in Emotional Healing edited by Alley Parish. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2013.
• Picton, John. "Masks and Identities in Ebira Culture," in Concepts of the Body/Self in Africa edited by John Maw and John Picton, pp. 67-86. vienna: Afro-Pub, 1992.
• Pollock, A. "The Bamileke Mask." African Arts 1, no. 3 (1968): pp. 94-95.
• Ravenhill, Philip L. "An African Triptych: On the Interpretation of Three Parts and the Whole." Art Journal (New York) 47, no. 2 (1988): pp. 88-94.
• Ravenhill, Philip L. "Un triptique africain: De l'interprétation des trois parties et du tout." Arts d'Afrique noire (Arnouville) 83 (Autumn 1992): pp. 17-29.
• Reed, Daniel B. Dan Ge Performance: Masks and Music in Contemporary Côte d'Ivoire. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2003. [Reviewed by Philip M. Peek in African Arts (Los Angeles) 37, no. 4 (Winter 2004): pp. 90-91.]
• Rosen, Mary Sue and Paul Peter Rosen. Masks from West and Central Africa: A Celebration of Color and Form. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2013.
• Ross, Doran H. "Carnaval Masquerades in Guinea-Bissau (Photo Essay)." African Arts (Los Angeles) 26, no. 3 (July 1993): pp. 64-71, 88.
• Roy, Christopher D. Art of the Upper Volta Rivers. Meudon, France: Alain et Françoise Chaffin, 1987.
• Roy, Christopher D. "Forme et signification des masques mossi." Arts d'Afrique noire 48 (Winter 1983): pp. 9-23.
• Roy, Christopher D. "Forme et signification des masques mossi: Seconde partie." Arts d'Afrique noire 49 (Spring 1984): pp. 11-22.
• Schneider, Gilbert D. Norikam: Images and Field Notes. Portland, OR: Intercultural Education Service, 1992.
• Schweeger-Hefel, Annemarie. Masken und Mythen: Sozialstrukturen der Nyonyosi und Sikomse in Obervolta. Vienna: A. Schendl, 1980. [Review by Robert Pageard available online in Journal des africanistes 51, no. 1-2 (1981): pp. 335-339.]
• Simone, AbdouMaliq. "Some Reflections on Making Popular Culture in Urban Africa." African Studies Review 51, no. 3 (2008): pp. 75-89.
• Siroto, Leon. Masks and social organization among the Bakwele people of Western Equatorial Africa. Ph.D., Columbia University, 1969.
• Steiner, Christopher B. "The Invisible Face: Masks, Ethnicity, and the State in Côte d'Ivoire." Museum Anthropology (Washington, D.C.) 16, no. 3 (Oct. 1992): pp. 53-57.
• Stepan, Peter. Spirits Speak: A Celebration of African Masks. New York: Prestel Publishing, 2005.  [Reviewed online by Herbert Cole on H-Net, available at http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23023.]
• Timmermans, Paul. "Les Tikar." Africa-Tervuren 15, no. 3 (1969): pp. 69-80.
• Van Geertruyen, Godelieve. "Le style nimba." Arts d'Afrique noire 31 (Autumn 1979): pp. 20-37.
• Verger-Fevre, Marie-Noël. "Etude des masques faciaux de l'ouest de la Côte-d'Ivoire conservés dans les collections publiques françaises." Arts d'Afrique noire 53 (Spring 1985): pp. 17-29.
• Verger-Fevre, Marie-Noël. "Etude des masques faciaux de l'ouest de la Côte-d'Ivoire conservés dans les collections publiques françaises: Seconde partie." Arts d'Afrique noire 53 (Summer 1985): pp. 19-33.
• Volavkova, Zdenka. "Le Ndunga: Un masque, une danse, une institution sociale au Ngoyo." Arts d'Afrique noire 17 (Spring 1976): pp. 28-43.
• Warnier, Jean-Pierre. "Cameroun, Nigeria," in Chefs d'œuvre d'Afrique dans les collections du Musée Dapper, pp. 140-157. Paris: Editions Dapper, 2015.
• Wastiau, Boris. Chokwe. Visions of Africa 1. Milan: 5 Continents, 2006.
• 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. Antilopes du soleil: arts et rites agraires d’Afrique noire. Wien: Edition A. Schendl, 1980. [Review by Annie Dupuis available online in Journal des Africanistes (Paris) 52, no. 1 (1982): pp. 219-222.]
• Zahan, Dominique. "The Two Worlds of Ciwara." African Arts (Los Angeles) 33, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 34-45, 90-1.
• Zeitlyn, David. "Mambila Figurines and Masquerades: Problems of Interpretation." African Arts 27, no. 4 (Autumn 1994): pp. 38-47, 94.