Description |
xi, 355 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) ; 29 cm |
Note |
Catalog of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Oct. 2, 2007-Mar. 2, 2008. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-342) and index. |
Contents |
Eternal ancestors : the art of the Central African reliquary / Alisa Lagamma -- Of ancestors and earth spirits : new approaches for interpreting Central African politics, religion, and art / Kairn Klieman -- The Western historiography of African reliquary sculpture / Louis Perrois -- Ancestor veneration in Central Africa / Elias K. Bongmba -- "To learned people this may seem to be full of superstition" : reliquary sculpture in the medieval Christian tradition / Barbara Boehm -- The body eternal : the aesthetics of Equatorial African reliquary sculpture / Alisa Lagamma. |
Subject |
Sculpture, Central African (Central Africa) -- Exhibitions.
|
|
Sculpture, Black -- Africa, Central -- Exhibitions.
|
|
Reliquaries -- Africa, Central -- Exhibitions.
|
|
Ancestral shrines -- Africa, Central -- Exhibitions.
|
Added Author |
LaGamma, Alisa.
|
|
Boehm, Barbara Drake.
|
|
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
|
ISBN |
9781588392275 Metropolitan Museum of Art hardcover |
|
1588392279 Metropolitan Museum of Art hardcover |
|
9781588392282 Metropolitan Museum of Art pb |
|
1588392287 Metropolitan Museum of Art pb |
|
9780300124095 Yale University Press pb |
|
0300124090 Yale University Press pb |
|