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December 01 2009
Yoruba Heritage as Project: Reauthenticating the Osun Grove in Osogbo, Nigeria
Peter Probst
Peter Probst
Associate Professor at the Department of Art History at Tufts University where he teaches African art and visual culture. His fieldwork in Cameroon, Malawi, and Nigeria has resulted in numerous publications on heritage, memory, modernity, and visual theory. In 2009 he completed the manuscript for his new book, provisionally titled Keeping the Goddess Alive: The Art of Heritage in Postcolonial Nigeria. [email protected]
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Peter Probst
Associate Professor at the Department of Art History at Tufts University where he teaches African art and visual culture. His fieldwork in Cameroon, Malawi, and Nigeria has resulted in numerous publications on heritage, memory, modernity, and visual theory. In 2009 he completed the manuscript for his new book, provisionally titled Keeping the Goddess Alive: The Art of Heritage in Postcolonial Nigeria. [email protected]
Online ISSN: 1937-2108
Print ISSN: 0001-9933
© 2009 by the Regents of the University of California.
2009
African Arts (2009) 42 (4): 24–37.
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Peter Probst; Yoruba Heritage as Project: Reauthenticating the Osun Grove in Osogbo, Nigeria. African Arts 2009; 42 (4): 24–37. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar.2009.42.4.24
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