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Title:

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

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xi, 355 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.

Subject:

Sculpture, Central African--Exhibitions.
Sculpture, Black--Africa, Central--Exhibitions.
Reliquaries--Africa, Central--Exhibitions.
Ancestral shrines--Africa, Central--Exhibitions.

Other Authors:

LaGamma, Alisa.
Boehm, Barbara Drake.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Oct. 2, 2007-Mar. 2, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-342) and index.

Contents:

The body eternal : the aesthetics of Equatorial African reliquary sculpture / 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.

ISBN:

0300124090 (Yale University Press : pb)
9780300124095 (Yale University Press : pb)
1588392287 (Metropolitan Museum of Art : pb)
9781588392282 (Metropolitan Museum of Art : pb)
1588392279 (Metropolitan Museum of Art : hc)
9781588392275 (Metropolitan Museum of Art : hc)

LCCN:

2007028958

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)