Flickering images, floating signifiers: Optical innovation and visual piety in Senegal

Material Religion

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 4-31

  Roberts, Allen F ^a   Roberts, Mary Nooter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical technologies; Sufism in Senegal; The materiality of images; Visual epistemology; Visual hagiography; Visual piety

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249129621     PISSN: 17432200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2752/175183408X288113     Document Type: Article

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