African Twilight: Vanishing Ceremonies of the African Continent

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Thursday, December 5, 2019, 4:00pm - 6:00pm

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Center for African Studies Lounge, 3rd Floor, 1280 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge

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https://africa.harvard.edu/event/african-twilight-vanishing-ceremonies-african-continent

Event Description:

For the last forty years American born Carol Beckwith and Australian
Angela Fisher have journeyed over 300,000 miles travelling through 44
countries and recording over 150 cultures on the African continent.
Their recently published double volume book, African Twilight, the
subject of this lecture, is the magnum opus of these two pioneering
documentary photographers of African tribal cultures and ceremonies.
Their lecture will feature highlights from African Twilight, a
fifteen-year study and visual homage to the vanishing traditions of
the continent. Fisher and Beckwith seek out remote communities to
record sacred ceremonies, celebrating Africa's powerful art forms and
boundless creativity. Their presentation will range from Maasai
warrior initiations in Tanzania to the courtship rituals of the Ariaal
of Kenya, from the masquerades of the spirit world in Burkina Faso to
the royal rituals of the Kuba Kingdom in DR Congo.

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Thursday, December 5, 2019 - 16:00 to 18:00

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