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Hair in African art and culture
- Title
- Hair in African art and culture / edited by Roy Sieber and Frank Herreman ; with contributions by Niangi Batulukisi ... [et al.].
- Publication
- New York : Museum for African Art ; Munich : Prestel, 2000.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 192 p. : ill. (some col.); 30 cm.
- Subject
- 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."--Verso t.p.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
- Call Number
- Sc G 00-59
- ISBN
- 3791322915 (cloth)
- 0945802269 (pbk)
- LCCN
- 99068113
- OCLC
- 43665519
- Title
- Hair in African art and culture / edited by Roy Sieber and Frank Herreman ; with contributions by Niangi Batulukisi ... [et al.].
- Imprint
- New York : Museum for African Art ; Munich : Prestel, 2000.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-189).
- Added Author
- Sieber, Roy, 1923-Herreman, Frank.Niangi Batulukisi.Museum for African Art (New York, N.Y.)
- Research Call Number
- Sc G 00-59