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A pilaster terminating the wall of a building, whose base and capital may not conform with the order used elsewhere on the building. At first placed at the ends of ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (5 ed.)
... , Cornish saint , patron of Leland (lan-Anta). Feast day and historical information...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
... [Co] The end of a wall of a building if it projects and is architecturally...
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The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture
... [ pl. antae ] . Engaged column or pilaster terminating the side wall of a Classical building. When the columns of an end portico stand between projecting end walls terminating in antae , they are said to be in antis ( see Architecture ,...
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Anthony Quiney
The Oxford Companion to Architecture
... A pilaster terminating the wall of a building, whose base and capital may not conform with the order used elsewhere on the building. At first placed at the ends of a temple portico, e.g. in the Athenian Treasury, Delphi ( c .500 bc ), antae entered the classical repertoire, notably to terminate an arcade of columns, which is then called in antis . Anthony...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (4 ed.)
... ( pl . antae ) 1. Square or rectangular pier formed by the thickening of the end of a wall, e.g. in Greek temples , where the projecting lateral walls of the naos terminate. When porticoes were formed by extending side-walls beyond the front wall of the naos and placing columns in a line between the antae, the columns, portico, and temple are described as in antis . Greek antae can have capitals and bases differing from those of the Order proper, unlike Roman pilasters , which are usually identical to the columns save for having...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)
... Theatre , New York, see VIRGINIA THEATRE...
Ka, Abdou Anta (b. 1931) Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
...Abdou Anta ( b. 1931 ). One of the most original and gifted of Senegalese post‐Independence writers, Ka is self‐educated. His collection of plays, Quatre pièces ( 1972 ), includes what he calls ‘a poor man's Shaka’, recognized by Dorothy Blair as the best of the francophone adaptations of Mofolo's novel about this semi‐legendary Zulu king. Quatre pièces also contains a study of mental illness, Pinthioum‐Fann , set in the Dakar mental hospital where Ka was treated for alcoholism. His plays, and his collection of short stories, Mal ( 1975 ), are full...
Diop, Cheikh Anta (1923–86) Quick reference
A Dictionary of African Politics
...Diop, Cheikh Anta ( 1923–86 ) A Senegalese academic and politician who fought for independence and led the opposition to President Léopold Sédar Senghor . Cheikh Anta Diop was born in Thieytou in what was then French Senegal during the era of colonial rule. He studied history, social science, and physics in Paris, obtaining a PhD in 1960 . After Senegal’s independence, Diop returned to teach at the University of Dakar, but he was considered an iconoclast among his peers and at times faced strong criticism. While studying in France, he joined the ...
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Dictionary of African Biography
...of Dakar, was renamed Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD), to honor Senegal’s most respected scholar. Diop died on 9 February 1986 in Dakar, leaving behind a wife and three sons. [ See also Amadu Bamba ; Du Bois, W. E. B .; and Obenga, Théophile Mwené . ] bibliography Asante, Molefi Kete . Cheikh Anta Diop: An Intellectual Portrait . Los Angeles: University of Sankore Press, 2007. Diop, Cheikh M’Backe . Cheikh Anta Diop. L’homme et L’oeuvre . Paris: Presence Africaine, 2003. Ela, Jean Marc . Cheikh Anta Diop ou L’honneur de penser . Paris:...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought
...founding fathers of modern African history. Bibliography Diop, Cheikh Anta . The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality . Westport, Conn.: L. Hill, 1974. Diop, Cheikh Anta . Black Africa: The Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State . Westport, Conn.: L. Hill, 1987. Diop, Cheikh Anta . Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology . New York: L. Hill, 1991. Diop, Cheikh Anta . The Cultural Unity of Black Africa . London: Karnak House, 1989. Diop, Cheikh Anta . Precolonial Black Africa: A Comparative Study of the Political and...
Diop, Cheikh Anta (1923–1986) Reference library
Encyclopedia of Africa
...Cheikh Anta 1923–1986 Historian, Egyptologist, physicist, linguist, and physical and cultural anthropologist . Cheikh Anta Diop is regarded as one of the greatest scholars of the twentieth century. A central figure in African-centered scholarship, his intellectual range and work spanned many disciplines. At the 1966 World Festival of the Arts in Dakar, Senegal , Diop shared with the late W. E. B. Du Bois an award as the writer who had exerted the greatest influence on black thought. He is most known for his work to reaffirm the African character of...
Diop, Cheikh Anta (1923–86) Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
...Cheikh Anta ( 1923–86 ). Philosopher , linguist , Egyptologist , mathematician , and scientist , one of the most profoundly revolutionary thinkers francophone Africa has produced in the 20th c. In 1946 he left his native Senegal for further studies in France. His first doctoral thesis, rejected by the Sorbonne, was published in 1954 under the title Nations nègres et culture . Two later theses finally resulted in Diop being awarded a doctorat d'état . On his return to Senegal at Independence, Diop worked as a researcher at the Institut Fondamental...
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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English
... noun plural antae , antas L16 Latin . Architecture A square pilaster at either side of a door or at the corner of a building. Cf. antes , in antis...
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Maria das Antas (1839–?) Reference library
Ricardo Salles
Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography
...extensive landholdings at Guaribu (444 slaves), Antas (305), Encantos (80), and Boa União (6). (One male adult slave was worth approximately 750 mil-réis, or US$427.) The inheritance rights to such a great fortune were especially complicated for a man who declared himself to be unmarried and without sons or daughters. In his will, the baron wrote, “I leave to Manoel Gomes Ribeiro Avelar, student, son of Maria das Antas and to his two brothers, Luís and João, born of a free womb, my properties Boa União, Antas and Encantos, with all their assets, slaves and...
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