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43rd Annual ASA Meeting
Nashville, TN
November 15-19, 2000
Photos from the Presidential Banquet for the three receipients of the 2000 ASA Distinguished Africanist Award co-hosted by the IU African Studies Program, the University of Michigan, and the Arts Council of the ASA (ACASA).
Roy Sieber
Kwabena Nketia
Bernth Lindfors
Saturday, November 18
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| The ASA Distinguished Africanist Award was established in the 1980s to recognize and honor scholars who have contributed a lifetime record of outstanding scholarship in their respective field of African studies and service to the Africanist community. This year, the award was given to three distinguished scholars, including Roy Sieber, IU Rudy Professor Emeritus of Art History. The other awardees were Bernth Lindfors (Literature, University of Texas) and J.H. Kwabena Nketia (International Center for African Music and Dance, University of Ghana). |
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| The awardees were praised in Yoruba tradition, accompanied by drumming and audience participation. At the conclusion, they were given gifts of cloth which are used by African women to tie their children on their backs, symbolic of how the awardees carried their many students until those students matured into their own successful careers. It was a very special time, and many of Roy Sieber's former students were present. |
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Photographs by Michael Conner.
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