A saint in the city : Sufi arts of urban Senegal /
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Los Angeles, Calif. :
UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History,
©2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / Mamadou Diouf
- Introduction: Aura and Icon in Contemporary Senegal
- Ch. 1. Mystical Reproductions: Photography and the Authentic Simulacrum
- Ch. 2. Portraits of the Hidden Side: Sanctifying Domestic Space
- Ch. 3. Stations in a Life: Glass Paintings as Visual Hagiography
- Ch. 4. Apostles of Hard Work: Sheikh Ibra Fall and the Baye Fall Movement
- Ch. 5. "Walls That Speak": Public Art and Postcolonial Memory
- Ch. 6. Mouride Women: In the Mirror of the Mother
- Ch. 7. Healing Words: Mouride Arts of Writing and Inscription
- Ch. 8. Contemporary Art and a "Mouride Way of Reasoning"
- Ch. 9. An Architecture of the Word
- Ch. 10. Pilgrimage and Exile, Transcendence and Prosperity.