What can be found about African arts inside the free online digitized archives, old books and old newspapers? Many things!
To read all the posts of the “Mining the archives” category, click here:
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Updated 2024, September 25: Old maps of Angola, Congo, and Zambia, from European repositories
Published 2024, September 21: Oral Literature in Africa: digitised texts in French, 1828-1930
Updated 2024, July 21: African arts in museums: the major IIIF image collections
Updated 2024, May 9: Some IIIF images about the 1966 first World Festival of Black Arts in Dakar
Published 2024, January 21: Outtakes from “First World Festival of Negro Arts, 1966”, a film by William Greaves
Published 2023, October 31: Images and sounds of African weddings from digitized archives
Published 2023, October 29: Digitized African music from ethnographic phonotheques
Published 2023, October 15: The patrimonialization of francophone African arts: the beginnings
This blog is experimenting with IIIF (pronounced triple-eye-eff) image reuse: IIIF allows any blogger/webmaster to display a part of a digitized image or text on his/her own blog/website, simply via a link, without having to download the image file, crop it and upload it again.
RÉGNAULT, Félix. “L’art nègre”. La Nature : revue des sciences et de leurs applications aux arts et à l’industrie : journal hebdomadaire illustré.
Paris, 24e année, 2e semestre, n° 1219 (10 octobre 1896), p. 297. ISSN 0369-3392.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Philosophie, histoire, sciences de l’homme, 4-R-45, Gallica.
Certain words applied to ethnographic objects, and certain information associated with them, are problematic in terms of their meaning and accuracy. The information documenting these objects is inherently colonial in nature and contains terminology that stigmatises their communities of origin or the diasporas concerned. However, we would like to make it clear that this information does not represent the opinion of the authors of this website. In fact, the project takes an anti-colonial and anti-discriminatory stance and affirms its support for historically marginalised and disenfranchised communities. We are therefore aware that this section “Mining the Archives” may cause psychological and physical tension. For this reason, we invite readers to consider the context in which these documents were produced.
