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Mikelle Smith Omari-Tunkara

Manipulating the Sacred: Yoruba Art, Ritual and Resistance in Brazil. Wayne State University Press. Detroit, Michigan. 2005.

"An Indigenous Anatomy of Power and Art: A New Look at Yoruba Women in Society and Religion;" Dialectical Anthropology, V. 21: 89 - 98. 1996.

"Aesthetics and Ritual of Candomble Nago;" in African Religions: Experience and Expression, Editor, Dr. Thomas Blakely, James Curry Ltd, London: Heinemann Portsmouth, N.H. 1994a: 135-139.

Editor, Frames in Transition: Concepts and Contexts of African Art in Tucson Collections, Tucson: University of Arizona Department of Art; Phoenix: Arizona Humanities Council. Exhibition catalog.1994b.

African Texts/American Sub-Texts: Adesequn Muneer H. Bahauddeen, Department of Art, Pasadena City College. Exhibition catalog, 1993.

"Completing the Circle: Notes on African Art, Society and Religion in Oyo Tunji, South Carolina", African Arts, Vol. 24, No. 3, Special Issue: Memorial to Arnold Rubin, Part II, July, 1991, pp. 66-75, 96.

"Creativity in Adversity: Afro-Bahian Women, Power, and Art", in The International Review of African American Arts, V. 9, No. 1, 1990a: 35-41.

Critique, African Art Studies: The State of the Discipline, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. 1990b: 119-124.

"The Role of the Gods in Afro-Brazilian Ancestral Ritual;" African Arts, UCLA. November, Vol. 23 No. 1, 1989: 54-61,103-104.

From the Inside to the Outside: The Art and Ritual of Bahian Candomble, Monograph Series No. 24, Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles. 1984.

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