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  • Elephant: The Animal and Its Ivory in African Culture
  • Written by author Doran H. Ross, Jesheskel Shoshani, Mary Jo Arnoldi, Donald J. Cosentino
  • Published by University of California Press, 1995/04/26
  • The elephant is abundantly represented in African culture. In this lavishly illustrated anthology, eighteen scholars pay homage to both the African elephant and African creativity. The elephant's natural history is the starting point for this collection.
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Preface
Maps of Africa
1 Imagining Elephants: An Overview 1
2 The African Elephant in Its Environment 43
3 Proboscideans, Hominids, and Prehistory 63
4 Talking (Gray) Heads: Elephant as Metaphor in African Myth and Folklore 81
5 Sama Ba: The Elephant in Bamana Art 99
6 Of Pachyderms and Power: Ivory and the Elephant in the Art of Central Cote d'Ivoire 115
7 More than Meets the Eye: Elephant Memories Among the Akan 137
8 The Elephant and Its Ivory in Benin 163
9 Image and Indeterminacy: Elephants and Ivory Among the Yoruba 187
10 The Igbo: Prestige Ivory and Elephant Spirit Power 211
11 Elephants, Ivory, and Chiefs: The Elephant and the Arts of the Cameroon Grassfields 229
12 Elephants, Ivory, and Art: Duala Objects of Persuasion 261
13 The Teeth of Nyim: The Elephant and Ivory in Kuba Art 277
14 The Stampeding of Elephants: Elephant Imprints on Lega Thought 295
15 Ivory from Zariba Country to the Land of Zinj 309
16 Under the Gun: Elephants in Ethiopian Painting 331
17 The Ivory Trade in Africa: An Historical Overview 349
18 The Material Culture of Ivory Outside Africa 367
19 Epilogue: The Future of Elephants, Real and Imagined 385
References Cited 397


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