Africanist
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- adjective
- /ˈæfrɪkənɪst/
- In Digging the Africanist Presence, I carefully examine selected examples of Africanist influences that are key to the development of both modern and postmodern performance.
- Africanist scholars
- Africanist historians
- Africanist art
Examples
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Similarly, African and Africanist art historians have become less concerned with categorization based on formal attributes.
Academic text (2001) -
Attending the Africanist conference allowed scholars to discuss the complexities of African art and history.
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The next Africanist exhibition at the MEG is scheduled for autumn 2008.
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By the 1990s, little had changed in the structures of Africanist knowledge production, dissemination, and authority.
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Similarly, one would hope that Africanist researchers and other visitors have desisted from taking pictures when asked not to do so.
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Research I conducted on five leading Africanist social science and humanities journals published in Britain.
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Reconnections are also accomplished through the valuable regional Africanist meetings, which have become more formalized.
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Although it is not an exact science, tracing the cultural legacy of New World Africans has considerable appeal for Africanist and Diasporan scholars.
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The attention to recyclia also harmonizes with recent movements within Africanist art circles toward recognizing and including contemporary and popular African arts within their purview.
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Furthermore, contrary to the clear-cut identifications offered at the Louvre, it is generally known among Africanist art historians that many styles cannot be neatly equated with ethnic groups.
Academic text (2001)
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Etymology
Africanist comes from the name Africa plus the ending -ist, a bit like artist, and is used as an adjective to mean 'about Africa' or its peoples and cultures. So an Africanist program is one that relates directly to Africa.