Raymond A. Silverman (Michigan State University, East Lansing)

Submitted: Fri, 22 August 2003


Raymond A. Silverman
Professor, History of Art and Afroamerican & African Studies
Director, Museum Studies Program
Department of the History of Art
519 S. State Street
Tappan Hall
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan  48109-1357  USA

phone:      734-615-9847
(messages): 734-764-5400
fax:        734-647-4121
E-mail:     silveray@umich.edu



Primary disciplinary foci are art history and ethnoarchaeology. I have
published on various subjects dealing with technology and material culture
history based on field research conducted in Ghana (1979-80), Cote
d'Ivoire (1987-88), and Ethiopia (1992-present).

Specific interests are concentrated on the interaction of Muslim and
non-Muslim peoples in West Africa, and the evolution of metalworking
technologies (and associated aesthetic systems) among the Akan of
Ghana/Cote d'Ivoire and in the Aksum region of Northern Ethiopia.