In Mubende Hill, Uganda, African art history lives through its spiritual traditions. Centering the agency of ritual objects and the ancestral Omweyimirize tree, this book reveals how clay pots, calabashes, Bachwezi cups and other artefacts mediate healing, identity, and continuity among the Balyammere. Drawing on oral histories, participatory fieldwork and decolonial critique, the author challenges museum practices that silence sacred objects by stripping them from context. It foregrounds indigenous interpretive authority while highlighting contemporary artistic re-engagements that sustain cultural knowledge, spiritual vitality and African epistemic sovereignty.
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Decolonizing African Art History and Heritage
Unveiling Ritual Objects' Power as Spiritual Resilience
- 223 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Decolonizing African Art History and Heritage
Unveiling Ritual Objects' Power as Spiritual Resilience
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. From Scared to Secular: Reframing Mubende Hill in Ugandan Visual Art Practice
- Chapter 2. Framing Ritual Objects and Healing
- Chapter 3. Contextualizing the Spiritual Space of Mubende Hill, Uganda: Awaka w’Ensi w’Omweyimirize Maama Nakayima
- Chapter 4. Object Stories in Relation to Ritual and Spiritual Performance at the Spiritual Space of Mubende Hill
- Conclusion: Insights from the Spiritual Space of Mubende Hill and Implications for the Future
- Glossary
- References
- Index
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