商品簡介
Imeh (art and art history, Westfield State U.) explores mbopo, a women's ritual among the Ibibio people of southeast Nigeria that involves ceremonial seclusion, corpulence, and ornamental extravagance as principal components in female identity construction. He first considers uyai mbopo revealed through time, transformation, and transition; then mbopo theater, corporeal dialogues, and the revelation of the bride. A number of black and white photographs, many from private collections, support the text and a glossary and lengthy bibliography are provided. Imeh has a family connection to mbopo, as his grandmother participated in the ritual. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Imo Nse Imeh is Assistant Professor of Art and Art History at Westfield State University. He received his doctorate in Art History from Yale University, where he studied the art and aesthetics of the African Diaspora. He is a practicing artist as well as a researcher, and although he is American-born, Imeh’s Ibibio heritage – his parents hail from Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria – has become a central point of reference and contemplation in both his art and scholarship. Presently, he is developing a series of paintings that are the visual embodiment of his research.
