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Authored Books

Gore, Charles (2007) Art, Performance and Ritual in Benin City. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Book Chapters

Gore, Charles (2018) 'Yoruba Remixed: Wole Lagunju.' In: Yoruba Remixed Wole Lagunju. Capetown, South Africa: Ebony Gallery, pp. 2-7. (Ebony Curated)

Gore, Charles (2014) 'Celebrating Trajectories of Nigerian Photography.' In: Adeyinka, Ayo and Gore, Charles, (eds.), Nigerian Centenary Photography Exhibition. London: Tafeta, pp. 10-23.

Gore, Charles (2010) 'El Anatsui and his Artworlds.' In: Kawaguchi, Y., Takezawa, S., Matsumoto, H., Mizusawa, T., Asaki, T., Nakamura, M. and Shibuya, T., (eds.), A Fateful Journey: Africa in the Works of El Anatsui. Japan: The Yomiuri Shimbun, The Japan Association of Art Museums: Japan, pp. 174-185.

Gore, Charles and Picton, John (2009) 'Denis Williams in Africa: A New Approach to its Arts and Technologies.' In: Williams, Charlotte and Williams, Evelyn, (eds.), Denis Williams, a life in works : new and collected essays. Amsterdam;New York: Rodopi, pp. 153-168.

Gore, Charles (2009) 'Religion in Africa.' In: Woodhead, Linda, Kawanami, Hiroko and Partridge, Christopher, (eds.), Religions in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations, 2nd Edition. Oxon; New York: Routledge, pp. 265-296.

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. Gent: 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: Eotla.

Gore, Charles (2007) 'Modernisms in Africa.' In: Contadini, Anna, (ed.), Objects of Instruction: Treasures of the School of Oriental an African Studies. London: SOAS, University of London, 111, 117-123.

Drewal, H., 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, Niall, (ed.), Safeguarding Africa's Archaeological Past: selected papers from a workshop held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2001. Oxford: Archaeopress. (Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 65)

Gore, Charles (2002) 'Traditions and Transformations in African Religions.' In: Fletcher, Paul, Kawanami, Hiroko, Smith, David and Woodhead, Linda, (eds.), Religion in the Modern World. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 204-230.

Gore, Charles (1998) 'Ritual, performance and media in urban contemporary shrine configurations in Benin City, Nigeria.' In: Hughes-Freeland, Felicia, (ed.), Ritual, performance, media. London: Rouledge, pp. 66-84.

Gore, Charles (1997) 'Mami Wata: West Africa.' In: Middleton, John, (ed.), Encyclopedia of Africa south of the Sahara. New York; London: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 108-110.

Gore, Charles (1997) 'Popular Culture in West Africa.' In: Middleton, John, (ed.), Encyclopedia of Africa south of the Sahara. New York ; London: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 447-453.

Journal Article

Gore, Charles (2015) 'Intersecting Archives: Intertextuality and the Early West African Photographer.' African Arts, 48 (3). pp. 6-17.

Gore, Charles (2015) 'African Photography.' African Arts, 48 (3). pp. 1-5.

Gore, Charles (2015) 'Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou: Artist Interview.' African Arts, 48 (3). pp. 70-75.

Gore, Charles (2013) 'Neils Walwin Holm: Radicalising the Image in Lagos Colony, West Africa.' History of Photography, 37 (3). pp. 283-300.

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 (2008) 'Masks and Modernities.' African Arts, 41 (4). 1, 4-7.

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/win). pp. 40-41.

Gore, Charles (1999) 'Vodou Nation [Bagley Studios, London May 15 and Cream, Liverpool, May 22, 1998].' African Arts, 32 (2). pp. 77-79.

Gore, Charles (1997) 'Casting Identities in Contemporary Benin City.' African Arts, 30 (3). pp. 54-61.

Gore, Charles and Nevadomsky, Joseph (1997) 'Practice and Agency in Mammy Wata Worship in Southern Nigeria.' African Arts, 30 (2). pp. 60-69.

Gore, Charles and Morton-Williams, Peter (1997) 'Remembering R. E. Bradbury: An Interview with Peter Morton-Williams.' African Arts, 30 (4). pp. 36-45.

Gore, Charles (1997) 'Remembering R.E.Bradbury: An Interview with Professor Peter Morton-Williams.' African Arts, 30 (4). pp. 36-45.

Book Reviews

Gore, Charles (2012) 'Review of 'Osogbo and the Art of Heritage: Monuments, Deities, and Money' by Peter Probst.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 75 (2). pp. 431-433.

Gore, Charles (2008) 'Review of ‘Transforming Museums: Mounting Queen Victoria in a Democratic South Africa’ Steven Dubin.' Africa Today, 55 (2). pp. 107-108.

Gore, Charles (2006) 'Review of 'Photography on the Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture' by Shawn Michelle Smith.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 12 (3). pp. 703-704.

Gore, Charles (2005) 'Frank Willett with Barbara Blackmun and Emma Lister: The Art of Ife: a descriptive catalogue and database. Glasgow: University of Glasgow Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, CD-ROM.' Antiquity, 79 (305). pp. 721-722.

Gore, Charles (2000) 'Art and Power: review of African Royal Court Art by Michèle Coquet; Jane Marie Todd.' The Journal of African History, 41 (1). pp. 140-141.

Gore, Charles (2000) 'Review of ‘Religion, Health and Suffering’, (eds.) Hinnells, J.R. and Porter, R.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 6 (3). p. 527.

Gore, Charles (1999) 'Review of 'Dawn to Dusk: Folk Tales from Benin' by Iro Eweka.' Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 69 (3). pp. 478-479.

Other

Gore, Charles (2013) 'Review of 'Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsmen', British Museum, London, October 2011-February 2012.' African Arts, 46 (3). African Studies Center, University of California. pp. 90-93.

Gore, Charles (2012) 'We Face Forward: Art from West Africa Today [Exhibition].' In: We Face Forward: Art from West Africa Today. Times Higher Education (2054). pp. 44-45.

Gore, Charles (2006) 'Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent [Exhibition].' In: Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent [Exhibition]. Journal of Museum Ethnography (18). Museum Ethnographers Group. pp. 174-177.