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Ethnologie/Anthropologie

Mette Bovin
Nomads Who Cultivate Beauty.
Woɗaaɓe Dances and Visual Arts in Niger

Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. Uppsala, Sweden. 2001. 110 p.

             

List of illustrations

• Photo 2. Cave painting, reproduced from Fabrizio Mori, The Great Civilisations of the Ancient Sahara, “L'Erma” di Bretschneider, Rome 1998 (p. 225).
• Photo 8. Gorjo ɓii Rima
• Photo 12. Patrick Paris
• Photos 19-20. Preben Delholm/Rógvi Johansen, Moesgard Museume^©
• Photo 47. Marguerite Dupire
• Photo 48. Yacoubou Photoma
• Photo 69. Kristín Loftsdóttir
• Photo 70. Bango ɓii Sabbabbi
• Photo 71. Jakob Bovin

The other 64 photos are taken by the author (including the front and back cover photos).

Maps

• Map 1. The Fulɓe people live in eighteen countries in West and Central Africa.
• Map 2. The Woɗaaɓe subgroup distribution in West Africa.
• Map 3. Migrations of the Woɗaaɓe subclan Siiganko'en between 1968 and 2000.

Drawings

• Drawings 1-4 are from Maïné-Soroa and Garawa, Niger, of the moosi dance, the girl Amina Somey falling into a trance, by Mette Bovin 1968.
• Drawing 5. Woɗaaɓe in the big landscape with their animals, by Mette Bovin 1985. “Musa's dream”.