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Title:

Ubangi : art and cultures from the African heartland / edited by Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers ; with contributions by Raymond Boyd [and others].

Publisher:

Mercatorfonds,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

327 pages (4 folded) : color illustrations, color maps ; 30 cm

Subject:

Art--Ubangi River Region--Exhibitions.
Wood sculpture--Ubangi River Region--Exhibitions.
Ubangi River Region--Social life and customs--Exhibitions.
Ubangi River Region--Colonial influence--Exhibitions.
Art--Ubangi River Region--Exhibitions.
Wood sculpture--Ubangi River Region--Exhibitions.
Ubangi River Region--Social life and customs.
Ubangi River Region--Colonial influence.
Art.
Colonial influence.
Manners and customs.
Wood sculpture.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.

Other Authors:

Grootaers, J.-L. (Jan-Lodewijk), editor.
Boyd, Raymond, editor.
Afrika Museum (Berg en Dal, Netherlands), host institution.

Notes:

Published to accompany an exhibition held at Afrika Museum, Berg-en-Dal, Oct. 13, 2007-Mar. 31, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-321) and index.

Contents:

pt. 2. Beliefs and rituals of the Ngbaka people / Open borders in a Central African crucible / Marcel Henrix. The Ubangian languages / Raymond Boyd ; Statues and applied sculpture in northwestern Congo / Herman Burssens ; Ubangian sculpture / Georges Meurant -- pt. 2. Colonial encounters. Colonial encounters: the two sides of the coin / J.-L. Grootaers ; 'From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile': the second Central African Expedition of Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, 1910-1911 / Beate Schneider, Christine Stelzig ; Hairstyles in the Ubangi region at the end of the nineteenth century / Iris Hahner ; Beliefs and rituals of the Ngbaka people / Marcel Henrix.

ISBN:

9061537401
9789061537403

OCLC:

(OCoLC)190821811

LCCN:

2008448228

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)