Websites for African Ceremonies Project

Internet Resources:
BEGIN HERE: AFRICAN CEREMONIES: http://www.africanceremonies.com/index.html ( These books are on Reserve shelf in the LRC)
Large data bases are listed last in this list.
Country Map: http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/countries.html
Maps: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps
Art and Life in Africa Online: http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/index.html
Clickable map of African art: http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people.html
Africa and country overviews: http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu
U Penn's African Studies Center Website http://www.africa.upenn.edu/
Britannica Online (encyclopedia): http://www.eb.com/
Africa guide: http://www.africaguide.com/
History of Africa: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/
Clickable timeline of African history; http://www.inmotionaame.org/timeline.cfm
Tribes: http://users.telenet.be/african-shop/tribe_info.htm
Ceremonies: http://www.culturesontheedge.com/gallery/archives/ceremonies/photos/
African Dance data base: http://www.artslynx.org/dance/afro.htm\
Festivals: http://http://www.africaguide.com/ (Scroll down to "People and Culture" on the left)
Tribal groups: http://www.africaguide.com/culture/tribes/index.htm
African people: http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people.html
Another: http://www.nsu.edu/resources/woods/collect.htm
African Traditional Religion rituals: http://www.nalane.net/xhosa/passage-rites.htm
Niger: http://us-africa.tripod.com/niger.html
Wodaabe People: http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Wodaabe.html
Igbo age-grade masquerade: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0438/is_4_36/ai_n6158015/pg_2
Yoruba: http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/afrilink.htm#Social Click on-- Art Museums and Gallery Links and open the link to “Yoruba Arts and Culture”
Dogon: http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Dogon.html
Maasai History: http://www.bluegecko.org/kenya/tribes/maasai/history.htm
African Studies Quarterly: http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq/index.htm
Yoruba legends: http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/yl/index.htm and here http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/yor/index.htm
Yoruba and Akan art: http://www.fa.indiana.edu/~conner/africart/home.html
African Arts Aesthetics and Meaning: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/exhib/93.ray.aa/African.html
Kinship & social organization: http://www.umanitoba.ca/anthropology/tutor/kinmenu.html
Art of Burkina Faso: http://www.africanart.org/html/museum_links.htm
Pictures / photos / images of some MASKS and headdresses in the African tribal, antique, ritual, ethnographic, classical, "primitive" art collection: http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/nieuwenhuysen/african-art/african-art-collection-masks.htm
African art and explanations: http://africa.si.edu/collections/index.htm
African art on the web: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/nmafa/subject_guide_nmafa.cfm
African art museums: http://www.africanart.org/html/museum_links.htm
Great Art Resources: http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/index.htm
African Art articles database: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/exhib/93.ray.aa/African.html
Masks: http://users.telenet.be/african-shop/mask-information.htm
Wodaabe Life: http://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/DOCREP/006/Y5115E/y5115e04.htm
Masaai culture. Click on “expanded menu": http://www.maasaieducation.org/maasai-culture/maasai-history.htm
Also: http://www.maasaieducation.org/maasai-culture/maasai-history.htm
Huge Africa Database: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Africana_Studies/resources.html
East Africa Living Encyclopedia: http://www.africa.upenn.edu/NEH/tfolklore.htm
More databases: http://ias.berkeley.edu/africa/Resources.html
Library of Congress Country Studies: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html#toc
A great database—very extensive: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html