Susan Vogel , Dogon sculpture (in AFRICAN ARTS) – this is available, along with other readings on: http://www.learn.columbia.edu/africa/html/library.html

Patrick McNaughton and Diane Peirine, Art, Art History and the Study of Africa: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199846733/obo-9780199846733-0017.xml

Allen C Roberts, Arts of C Africa http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199846733/obo-9780199846733-0126.xml

(both of these are online in OXFORD BIBLIOGRAPHIES)

Questions:

How can we use the ‘art’ of precolonial Africa to think about political, social and moral systems on the continent and changes within these? What are the problems associated with the conceptualisation of objects as ‘art’, as ‘artefact’, as ‘totem’?