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The plan was to start with those ethnic groups in Northern Sudan where rapidly increasing urbanization, major mass media influence and the population movements due to resettlement were threatening the extinction of certain distinct forms of dress. The need to record all this in the 1970s was very
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in urban societies. This applies especially to the final chapter, written in 2016, that describes changes in Sudanese dress since her earlier research. Among other reasons, El Tayib attributed the modern changes in dress and related personal tastes to international influences by television, Arab
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became an independent country in 2011, and in light of the large number of ethnic groups in what used to be the southern parts of the former Sudan, these and other geographic areas could not be included in her research, which was dedicated to the eastern and central
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rs and shoemakers was included. The accompanying watercolour illustrations were made by the author herself, in an attempt to present important details and the way the costumes were worn, thus providing advantages over photographs.
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In this study of 320 pages, she described "details of indigenous costumes worn by Sudanese, in North, East and Central Riverain Sudan, during the first half of this century before radical political and social changes introduced an
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Kheir, Hamad Mohammed; El Tayib, Griselda; Badrī, Balqīs Yūsuf; Naqar, Sāmiyah al-Hādī; Khider el Sayed, Mahasin; Hillāwī, Ḥātim Bā Bakr ʻAbd al-Qādir; Ahmed, Asia Mahjoub; Kenyon, Susan M; Jāmiʻat al-Kharṭūm (1987).
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Griselda El Tayib was married to the eminent Sudanese scholar and writer Abdullah El Tayib. Having stayed on in Khartoum after her husband's death, she died on 20 May 2022, at the age of 97.
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Besides the area of the modern state of South Sudan, both the Nuba mountain area as well as western Sudan with Darfur were excluded.
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vary considerably between traditional and modern forms, the book presents both local and traditional forms of dress as well as
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that wear them, the descriptions refer to local materials, different age groups and geographic places, to different items of
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thesis in 1976. Some forty years later, she published a revised and updated version of her earlier writing in the book
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in schools and colleges of the Sudan, as well as at the Arts Department of the Abdullahi Bayero College (later
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Having lived in Sudan and other African countries for most of her life with her Sudanese husband, academic
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urgent, for already within two-and-a-half decades I had personally witnessed the disappearance of the
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on the life and work of the Sudanese painter Omer Kheiry. For her husband's translated collections of
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and informal interviews during her research in the 1970s. As the lifestyles of Sudanese in different
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Historical photograph from 1901 of a Sudanese woman wearing a nose ring and other characteristic
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Description of Sudanese women's traditional scarification and other forms of corporal decoration
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and anthropological research and presents her descriptions and paintings of selected Sudanese
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For her contributions to British-Sudanese relations, she was distinguished as a Member of the
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and women's education in Sudan and has been called "a Sudanese artist of British origin".
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fashion magazines and the dress codes adopted by the international Sudanese diaspora.
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The complete history of costume & fashion: from ancient Egypt to the present day
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since the 1970s. She published her research in 2017 in the illustrated book
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wooden clogs, and increasingly also of the crescent shaped earrings called
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Documents and audio files about Griselda and Abdullah El Tayib's life
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Blog from Sudan with many images of Sudanese apparel and references
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Publications on contemporary fine arts and African folk stories
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British-Sudanese artist and cultural anthropologist (1925–2022)
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Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan
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West, Michael; El Tayib, Abdulla; El Tayib, Griselda (1978).
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Griselda El Tayib, Regional Folk Costumes of the Sudan, p. 17
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Griselda El Tayib, Regional Folk Costumes of the Sudan, p. 15
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Contemporary artists of the Sudan: art in times of adversity
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Contemporary artists of the Sudan: art in times of adversity
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El Tayib, Griselda; El-Nager, Sara; Nagy, Enikö (2017).
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In 1971, El Tayib co-wrote an article in the journal
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at the Institute of African and Asian Studies of the
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Documentary video on Griselda and Abdullah El Tayib
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MBE
Khartoum
University of Khartoum
Abdullah El Tayeb
MBE
visual artist
cultural anthropologist
costumes
Sudan
Abdullah El Tayib
ethnographic
watercolour paintings
visual arts of Sudan
folk literature
music
traditional costumes
Chelsea School of Art
United Kingdom
Abdullah El Tayib
University of London
art education
University of Kano
Nigeria
impressionism
folklore studies
University of Khartoum
field work
costumes
ethnic groups
M.A.

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