... Ceramics from Calabar, Nigeria: Towards a History of Nsibidi Christopher Slogar Christopher Slogar Christopher Slogar is an ... Ceramics from Calabar, Nigeria: Towards a History of Nsibidi. African Arts 2007; 40 (1): 18–29. doi: ...
Tópico(s): Architecture and Cultural Influences
2007 - UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center | African Arts
... on the ideographic form of writing known as nsibidi. She also researches and writes about a broad ... on the ideographic form of writing known as nsibidi. She also researches and writes about a broad ...
Tópico(s): Caribbean history, culture, and politics
2010 - UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center | African Arts
Onyile Bassey Onyile, Christopher Slogar,
... incurred. In times of peace, certain members—the Nsibidi Nnabo—carried out the executions of condemned persons ordered by the Obong. The Efik phrase nedseo nsibidi refers to the act of execution.The origin ... precise meaning was not proffered because it's “nsibidi”—that is, a secret. Apart from its general ... Ibom State also had a related group called “Nsibidi,” which, like Ekpe, “had secret signs known only ... distinctive indigo-dyed cotton wrapper (ukara) covered with nsibidi signs,4 a cloth that is the sole ...
Tópico(s): Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
2016 - UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center | African Arts
Babson Ajibade, Esther Ekpe, T.I. Bassey,
... Nigeria’s Cross River Sate, the ukaracloth and nsibidi visual signs are very critical aspects of history, ... of the Ejagham’s many Leopard Societies, the nsibidi is a visual language, unspoken but forming themain ... Ejagham peoples,Carlson (2003: 225) has suggested that nsibidi can “adapt to new historical circumstances and culture” ... to find out if the meanings of key nsibidi signs have changed or adapted when transmitted intoa ... on adaptations and changes in the meaning of nsibidi. And, that through its use in the design ...
Tópico(s): Public Spaces through Art
2012 - Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research | Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences
The study of nsibidi, one of Africa's native writing systems, has mainly taken two routes — the taxonomic, which is concerned with the classification of nsibidi signs, and the genealogical, which attempts to resolve the question of where and how nsibidi originated. This essay undertakes a semiotic and literary analysis of nsibidi as an influential language of the crossroads. In modern Nigerian literature, for instance, the poetics of “nsibidi” may be said to include a weighty concern ...
Tópico(s): Multilingual Education and Policy
2010 - De Gruyter | Semiotica
Tópico(s): Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
1910 - Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland | Man
Tópico(s): Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
1910 - Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland | Man
Tópico(s): Social and Economic Development in India
1909 - | The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Tópico(s): Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
1911 - | The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
... and possesses an ideographic system of writing named nsibidi . From 1979 to 1983, teaching structuralist-synchronic linguistics ...
Tópico(s): Italian Literature and Culture
1991 - Cambridge University Press | African Studies Review
... ways cultural forms and practices, such as àrokò, nsibidi, tusona or sona (ideographic writing systems), and mmomomme ...
Tópico(s): African history and culture studies
2005 - SAGE Publishing | Journal of Black Studies
... society; its graphic motifs constitute one form of nsibidi, the region's well-known semiotic language system ( ...
Tópico(s): Anthropological Studies and Insights
2016 - UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center | African Arts
... the Big Head masquerade was used in the Nsibidi execution society, and when it became obsolete, it ...
Tópico(s): Anthropological Studies and Insights
2019 - UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center | African Arts
... those on the ceramics as well as the nsibidi/nsibiri, a pictogram (Fig. 19) used, from time ... monoliths of decorative motifs comparable to present-day nsibidi/nsibiri pictograms almost certainly confirms the antiquity of ... a sizeable part of the population, both the nsibidi and a secret Leopard Society (called Abakua) have ...
Tópico(s): African history and culture studies
2017 - UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center | African Arts
... the herbalist and former execution society known as Nsibidi. I further explain how Ekpe/Mgbe elders and members apprenticed me into nsibidi, the visual and performed esoteric body of knowledge ... quite a bit of time—sometimes during my nsibidi lessons with him or at other times when ...
Tópico(s): Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
2023 - UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center | African Arts
... as a teacher of Ekpe masking choreography and nsibidi knowledge, as well as other creative talents (Figs. ... completion, whether mask, funeral shrine, or masking and nsibidi lesson, his father is consulted and honored with ...
Tópico(s): Architecture, Art, Education
2017 - UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center | African Arts
... cultural motifs inspired by the monolith and nsibiri/nsibidi symbols (Fig. 6).As a designer, I draw ... and recording their history and judgments with nsibiri/nsibidi scripts, pictorial ideographs used by initiates. In this ...
Tópico(s): Cultural Industries and Urban Development
2022 - UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center | African Arts
Chinyere Ndubuisi, Irokanulo Emmanuel,
... its impact on Nigerian modern art, Uli Ona, Nsibidi, Ara, and the Society of Nigerian Artist were ...
Tópico(s): Art History and Market Analysis
2015 - African Journals OnLine | Journal of Research in National Development
... developed parallel graphic writing systems, such as the Nsibidi codes of the Cross River region of Nigeria ...
Tópico(s): Digital Storytelling and Education
2016 - Duke University Press | Hispanic American Historical Review
... each small tile is inscribed figures recognizable as nsibidi, the ideographic (and secret) script of southeastern Nigeria. ...
Tópico(s): Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
2020 - UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center | African Arts