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.
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