Cerimônia de mascarada

Uma cerimônia masquerade (ou mascarado, mascarada rito, festival, procissão ou dança) é um evento cultural ou religioso envolvendo o uso de máscaras.

Exemplos incluem a África Ocidental e Diáspora africana mascaradas, tal como os egunguns, Edo Masquerades do Norte, Nsukka (festival omabe), Carnaval do Caribe (que é chamado Mas) e Jonkonnu.

Bibliografia

• Masks and headdresses in the collection of so-called "primitive" art from Sub-Saharan black Africa at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• The Art of the African Mask, University of Virginia
  • Faces of the Spirit, University of Virginia
  • Icons of Power, University of Virginia
  • Images of Ancestors, University of Virginia
  • Portraits of Rulers, University of Virginia
• Physical characteristics of African Tribal Masks, Rebirth African Art Gallery
• Bortolot, Alexander Ives, Idia: The First Queen Mother of Benin. In Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2003. Retrieved 25 March 2007.
• Lommel, Andreas Masks, Their Meaning and Function, Ferndale Editions, London, orig. Atlantis Verlag Zurich 1970 — introduction, after Himmelheber Afrikanische Masken ISBN 0-905746-11-2
• Martens-Czarnecka, Malgorzata (2008). «A Scene of a Ritual Dance (Old Dongola-Sudan)». Etudes et Travaux (PDF). XXII. [S.l.: s.n.] 

Ligações externas

• Maske: World's Haunting Masquerades – slideshow by Life magazine
• Baba Alawoye.com Baba'Awo Awoyinfa Ifaloju, showcasing Ifa using web media 2.0 (blogs, podcasting, video & photocasting)
• Máscaras africanas tradicionais