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Article: Ways of the Rivers: Arts and Environment of the Niger Delta.
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- African Arts
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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Edited by Martha G. Anderson and Philip M. Peek
UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, 2002. Distributed by the University of Washington Press, Seattle. 364 pp., 50 b/w & 430 color illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography. $50 softcover.
One of the unfortunate circumstances of Niger Delta art history is that it is a sidebar to conversations elsewhere--a dumping ground, say, for the "Lower Niger Bronze Industry"--overshadowed by research on the Yoruba, the Benin kingdom, and the Igbo. To be sure, the Niger Delta has its champions. The historian E. J. Alagoa, the anthropologists Robin Horton, Philip Lets, and Marida Hollos, and the ...