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The scramble for art in Central Africa

Title
The scramble for art in Central Africa / edited by Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim.
Publication
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Schildkrout, Enid.
  • Keim, Curtis A.
Description
xiii, 257 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Objects and agendas: re-collecting the Congo / Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim -- "Enlightened but in darkness": interpretations of Kuba art and culture at the turn of the twentieth century / David A. Binkley and Patricia J. Darish -- Kuba art and the birth of ethnograpy / John Mack -- Curios and curiosity: notes on reading Torday and Frobenius / Johannes Fabian -- Appendix: on the ethnography and economics of collecting, from Leo Frobenius' Nochmals zu den Bakubavolkern / translated by Johannes Fabian -- Artes Africanae: the western discovery of "Art" in northeastern Congo / Curtis A. Keim -- Nineteenth-century images of the Mangbetu in explorers' accounts / Christraud M. Geary -- Personal styles and disciplinary paradigms: Frederick Starr and Herbert Lang / Enid 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.
Call Number
3-MAM 98-10392
ISBN
  • 0521583497 (hardcover)
  • 052158678X (pbk.)
LCCN
97003061 //r97
OCLC
36458024
Title
The scramble for art in Central Africa / edited by Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim.
Imprint
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Schildkrout, Enid.
Keim, Curtis A.
Research Call Number
3-MAM 98-10392
Sc E 99-874
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