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Title Eternal ancestors : the art of the Central African reliquary / edited by Alisa LaGamma ; with contributions by Barbara Boehm .. [and others]..

Publication Info. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  OVERSIZE 730.967 E83E    Check Shelf
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
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