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Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston through March 26, 2006, "West ... late 19th century, the lion—uncommon in Ghana—became popular in Akan art. (It was not, however, an African ...

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The first mental illness attributed to women, and one of the most prolific for four millennia, was so-called “female hysteria.” An amalgamation of symptoms that would be considered both mood and ...