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About Me:: I am a museum anthropologist interested in inclusive practices and sharing museum archival information and images and information relating to contemporary artistic epression of all forms for purposes of scholarship pertaining to international cutlural relations. Please see my web site at the Department of Transtechnology at the University of Plymouth for more details about the geographic and topical scope of my ethnographic and archival research.

How did you come across this network?: Through meeting Michel Bauwens at the GNH conference in Thailand.

At 5:38 on February 22, 2009, sheila nyandebvu said…: Hi Jonathan

I am very interested in Shona sculpture. I have always found our African culture to be very fascinating and something those in the west hadnever tried to understand. It looks like people like yourself are beginning to take more interest in this dying culture thru these stone sculptures and some of your articles on this subject are a good example of this.

I feel that this Shona art should be exhibited as contemporary African art because there is nothing real historic about it. But what is fascinating and should be promoted are the African principles the artists are preserving thru this art. For example the family unit, communalism, the spirituality of our lives. These things are universal and I think we should have more reading materials on how these issues are treated in Africa.