Dr Charles Gore
MA, PHD (London), PGCE
Overview
Department of Art and Archaeology
(Senior Lecturer in the History of African Art)
Visual culture of West Africa and the CaribbeanContact Details
- Name:
- Dr Charles Gore
- Email address:
- cg2@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4443
- Fax:
- 020 7898 4479
- Address:
- School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Brunei Gallery
- Office No:
- B302
- Personal Website:
- http://www.cgore.dircon.co.uk
Teaching
Students supervised
Programmes Convened
Courses Taught
Research
Benin studies and West Africa; African art; African visual cultures, including the mass media such as African photography, film, video and the internet; performance, religion and ritual in contemporary African societies; approaches to "popular culture" and its relations to regional/global knowledges; linkages between Africa and its diasporic arts; indigenous approaches to health and healing.
Biography
Dr Charles Gore received advanced degrees from SOAS under the supervision of Professor John Picton. He has carried out extensive research in southern Nigeria for 20 years at Benin City in Edo state working with practitioners of the local indigenous religion and with brasscasters; and also carried out research in Anambra and Ondo states; and in the Niger delta. He was the consultant for Artist Unknown (1995) a BBC film made about the arts of Benin City. Along with doing research as an art historian and anthropologist, he works as an artist (figurative, expressionist) in various media (oil, watercolour, pastel, mixed media, etching, monotypes, photography).
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Available for
Regional Expertise
- Africa
- North America
Country Expertise
- Cameroon
- Cuba
- Ghana
- Haiti
- Mali
- Nigeria
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
Languages
Publications
Authored Books
Gore , Charles (2007) Art, Performance and Ritual in Benin City. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Chapters in Books
Gore, Charles (2008) 'Mami Wata, an Urban Presence: The Making of a Tradition in Benin City, Nigeria.' In: Drewal, H., (ed.), Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora. Bloomington; Indianopolis: Indiana University Press, pp. 361-382.
Gore , Charles (2007) 'Conceptualising Royal, Community and Personal Shrines in the Edo Kingdom.' In: Plankensteiner, B., (ed.), Benin Kings and Rituals. Court Arts from Nigeria. Snoeck, pp. 130-139.
Gore , Charles (2007) 'Inscribing History: Leo Asemota and the Circle of (W)hole.' In: Asemota, L., (ed.), Circle of the (W)hole Catalogue. London.
Gore , Charles (2007) 'Modernisms in Africa.' In: Contadini, A., (ed.), Objects of Instruction: Treasures of the School of Oriental an African Studies. London: SOAS, University of London, 111, 117-123.
Drewal, H. and Gore , Charles and Kisliuk, M. (2006) 'Siren Serenades: music for MamiWata and Other Water Spirits in Africa.' In: Austern, L. P. and Naroditskaya, I., (eds.), Music of the sirens. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Gore, Charles (2005) 'Nigerian Museums: A Question of Value.' In: Finneran, N., (ed.), Safeguarding Africa's Archaeological Past: selected papers from a workshop held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2001. Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 65. Oxford: Archaeopress.
Gore, Charles (2002) 'Traditions and Transformations in African Religions.' In: Fletcher, P. and Kawanami, H. and Smith, D. and Woodhead, L., (eds.), Religion in the Modern World. Routledge, pp. 204-230.
Gore , Charles (1998) 'Ritual, performance and media in urban contemporary shrine configurations in Benin City, Nigeria.' In: Hughes-Freeland, F., (ed.), Ritual, performance, media. London: Rouledge, pp. 66-84.
Articles
Gore, Charles (2008) 'Masks and Modernities.' African Arts, 41 (4). 1, 4-7.
Gore, Charles (2008) '“Burn the Mmonwu” Contradictions and Contestations in Masquerade Performance in Uga, Anambra State in Southeastern Nigeria.' African Arts, 41 (4). pp. 60-73.
Gore , Charles and Pratten, David (2003) 'The Politics of Plunder: The Rhetorics of Order and Disorder in Southern Nigeria.' African Affairs, 102 (407). pp. 211-240.
Gore , Charles (2001) 'Commemoration, Memory and Ownership: Some Social Contexts of Contemporary Photography in Benin City, Nigeria.' Visual Anthropology, 14 (3). pp. 321-42.
Gore , Charles (2000) 'A Record of War, Southern Nigeria.' Songlines, 8 (autumn/winter). pp. 40-41.
Gore , Charles (1997) 'Remembering R.E.Bradbury: An Interview with Professor Peter Morton-Williams.' African Arts, 30 (4). pp. 36-45.
Gore , Charles (1997) 'Casting Identities in Contemporary Benin City.' African Arts, 30 (3). pp. 54-61.
Gore , Charles and Nevadomsky, J.N. (1997) 'Practice and Agency in Mammy Wata Worship in South-Eastern Nigeria.' African Arts, 30 (2). pp. 60-69.
