| Description |
192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm |
| Note |
"Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title organized and presented by the Museum for African Art, New York from 9 February to 28 May 2000"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-189). |
| Contents |
Prelude: Hairdressing -- Prologue / Roy Sieber -- History / Ray Sieber -- Hair in African art and culture / Niangi Batulukusi -- Interlude 1: status or identity: spiritual or secular -- Sculptural modes of representing coiffures / Frank Herreman -- Interlude 2: Wigs, hats and beards -- Women's hair and Sowei Masks in Southern Sierra Leone and Western Liberia / William Siegmann -- Coiffures of the Dan and Wè of Ivory Coast in 1938-39 / Elze Bruyninx -- Interlude III: Children and dolls -- A note on hair and mourning, wspecially in Ghana / Roy Sieber -- Orilonse. The Hermeneutics of the head and hairstyles among the Yoruba / Babatunde Lawal -- Hairstyles among the Margi / James H. Vaughan -- Mangbetu hairstyles and the art of seduction: "Lipombo" / Els de Palmanaer -- Interlude IV: Tools and ornaments -- Hair matters in South Central Africa / Manuel Jordan -- Cross dressing for the Spirits in Shamba Ughanga / Barbara Thompson -- A note on Gender Reversal / Ray Sieber -- Headrests and hair ornaments: signifying more than status / Karel Nel -- Interlude V: Neck rests -- Rasta hair, US and Ghana: a personal note / Marianna Ross -- Interlude VI: Contemporary Africa -- What is really happening here? Black hair among African Americans and in American culture / Kennel Jackson. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Hairstyles -- Africa -- Exhibitions.
|
|
Hair in art -- Exhibitions.
|
|
Art, African -- Exhibitions.
|
|
Sculpture, African -- Exhibitions.
|
| Added Author |
Sieber, Roy, 1923-2001.
|
|
Herreman, Frank.
|
|
Niangi Batulukisi.
|
|
Museum for African Art (New York, N.Y.)
|
| ISBN |
3791322915 cloth |
|
9783791322919 cloth |
|
0945802269 paperback |
|
9780945802266 paperback |
|
