Peter Mark (Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut)

Submitted: Thurs, 19 February 1998


Peter Mark
Chairman, Art History Program
Professor
Department of Art History
Wesleyan University

Mail addresses:
4 Huber Manor
Middletown, Connecticut  06457  USA

10 rue Charles Gerhardt
67000
Strasbourg
France

phone:   860-685-3182
e-mail:  pmark@wesleyan.edu

Histoire culturelle et intellectuelle de l'Afrique de l'Ouest; les basses
cotes de Guinee de 1400 a 1920; histoire de l'architecture; histoire des
Luso-Africaine.

West African cultural and intellectual history ; West African art history ; 
West African precolonial architecture ; Francophone, Anglophone, Lusophone
West Africa (Upper Guinea Coast) 

Fieldwork: Senegal (Casamance), Guinea-Bissau, Gambia

Languages: Diola-Fogny (Joola), French, German, English

Books:

The wild bull and the sacred forest: form, meaning and change in
Senegambian initiation masks.

A cultural, religious and economic history of the Basse Casamance since
1500.

Blacks in European eyes: the portrayal of Black Africans in 14th and 15th
century Europe.