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December 01 2007
Decorated Hu Ronko Shirts from Northern Sierra Leone: Birth, Life, and Decline
Simon Ottenberg
Simon Ottenberg
Simon Ottenberg carried out field research at Wara Wara Bafodea Chiefdom in 1978–80 and is the author of numerous articles and a book growing out of that work: Seeing with Music: The Lives of Three Blind African Musicians (University of Washington Press, 1996). He has also published extensively on the traditional and contemporary arts of the Igbo of southeastern Nigeria. He is an emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Washington, where he taught for thirty-six years.
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Simon Ottenberg
Simon Ottenberg carried out field research at Wara Wara Bafodea Chiefdom in 1978–80 and is the author of numerous articles and a book growing out of that work: Seeing with Music: The Lives of Three Blind African Musicians (University of Washington Press, 1996). He has also published extensively on the traditional and contemporary arts of the Igbo of southeastern Nigeria. He is an emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Washington, where he taught for thirty-six years.
Online ISSN: 1937-2108
Print ISSN: 0001-9933
© 2007 by the Regents of the University of California.
2007
African Arts (2007) 40 (4): 14–31.
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Simon Ottenberg; Decorated Hu Ronko Shirts from Northern Sierra Leone: Birth, Life, and Decline. African Arts 2007; 40 (4): 14–31. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar.2007.40.4.14
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