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Author(s) -
Gott Suzanne
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
museum anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.197
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1548-1379
pISSN - 0892-8339
DOI - 10.1525/mua.2007.30.1.66
Subject(s) - folklore , ethnography , performative utterance , civilization , anthropology , history , the arts , art history , art , sociology , archaeology , visual arts , aesthetics
Beads of Life: Eastern and Southern African Beadwork from Canadian Collections by Marie‐Louise Labelle. Canadian Museum of Civilization Mercury Series, Cultural Studies Paper 78. Gatineau, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2005. 208 pp. Suzanne Gott is Assistant Professor of Aboriginal and Visual Arts at Brandon University in Manitoba, Canada. Trained in art history, folklore, and African studies, her ethnographic research focuses on women's visual culture in Ghana's Ashanti region, particularly on the significance of dress, fashion, and urban performative display.