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The scramble for art in Central Africa / edited by Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim.

Contributor(s): Schildkrout, Enid | Keim, Curtis A | Mack, John
Language: English Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.Description: xiii, 257p. : ill. ; 23cm.ISBN: 0521583497; 052158678X (pbk)Subject(s): Art, Congolese (Democratic Republic) -- Collectors and collecting | Art -- Collectors and collectingDDC classification: 709/.6751/075/dc21
Contents:
Objects and agendas: re-collecting the Congo / E. Schildkrout, C.A. Keim; "Enlightened but in darkness": interpretations of Kuba art and culture at the turn of the 20th century / David A. Binkley, Patricia J. Darish; Kuba art and the birth of ethnography / John Mack; Curios and curiosity: notes on reading Torday and Frobenius / Johannes Fabian; Artes Africanae / C.A. Keim; Nineteenth century images of the Mangbetu in explorer's accounts / C.M. Geary; Personal styles and disciplinary paradigms: Frederick Starr and Herbert Lang / E. Schildkrout; Where art and ethnology met: the Ward African collection at the Smithsonian / Mary Jo Arnoldi; "Magic, or as we usually say, art": a framework for comparing European and African art / Wyatt MacGaffey.
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Africa Oceania and the Americas Open Shelves KYN [SCH-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available M34184

Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-251) and index.

Objects and agendas: re-collecting the Congo / E. Schildkrout, C.A. Keim; "Enlightened but in darkness": interpretations of Kuba art and culture at the turn of the 20th century / David A. Binkley, Patricia J. Darish; Kuba art and the birth of ethnography / John Mack; Curios and curiosity: notes on reading Torday and Frobenius / Johannes Fabian; Artes Africanae / C.A. Keim; Nineteenth century images of the Mangbetu in explorer's accounts / C.M. Geary; Personal styles and disciplinary paradigms: Frederick Starr and Herbert Lang / E. Schildkrout; Where art and ethnology met: the Ward African collection at the Smithsonian / Mary Jo Arnoldi; "Magic, or as we usually say, art": a framework for comparing European and African art / Wyatt MacGaffey.

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