#  African & African American Studies 199z 

 





 Semester:   Fall 

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 Year offered:  2018 

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 Link: [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 

 

 

 

*Majesty and Mythology in African Art*  
Suzanne Blier  
Monday 12-2:45pm  
This course serves as an introduction to key themes in Africa art framed around both questions of rulership and the array of mythological forms that define these and other arts. The course also examines what these arts reveal about the nature of power, society, and religion in Africa more generally. The diverse ways that Africans have employed art and architecture to define individual and group identity will also be examined. Among the topics that will be discussed are palace and community architecture, regalia, women, divine kingship, cosmology, enthronement ceremonies, history, and the importance of art in diplomacy and war. The importance of broader art and architectural connections between Africa and other world areas will be engaged as well, bringing into play issues of colonialism, the global economy, questions of display, and current concerns with art appropriation and return.



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Fall 2018 ](/classterm/fall-2018)