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The “Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic” online exhibition demonstrates the ontological ideas, the cultural history, the material conditions, and the aesthetic genius of Africa and its diaspora through photographs of the Afro-Atlantic Sacred Art Collection at Duke University, footage of ritual, videotaped interviews with priests, scholars, art dealers, and collectors, and “virtual online tours,” which tell stories about the deepest realities through the physical embodiments of black divinity.
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The exquisite bronze and terra cotta portraiture of Ifę precedes by eight centuries the earliest written explanation we have
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West-Central Africa is populated largely by speakers of the Bantu languages. These languages originated in a small population of
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“Winti” is the name for both a religion and some of the spiritual entities worshipped in that religion. Winti
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This tour explores how the phallus is represented in the context of Afro-Atlantic religions and the Western world. Through the analysis of some of the gods present in Afro-Atlantic religions it becomes apparent that some artifacts are closely related to the phallus physically, symbolically, and metaphorically.