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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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Africa Oceania and the Americas Open Shelves KYN [SCH-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available M34184
Total holds: 0

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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