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Speaker: "Henriette Hertz Lecture" by Anne Lafont Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Parures et Parades: Being Signare in Senegal around 1800

Lecture
The lecture will focus on material culture, that is, the objects in use and the representations of an exceptional community: the Signares, mixed-race women from Saint-Louis du Sénégal and the island of Gorée, who, through their matrimonial alliances with European merchants, formed an elite. [more]
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