The scramble for art in Central Africa /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998. |
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| Description: | xiii, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3357119 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Objects and agendas: re-collecting the Congo Enid Schildkrout and Curtis
- 2. 'Enlightened but in darkness': interpretations of Kuba art and culture at the turn of the twentieth century
- 3. Kuba art and the birth of ethnography
- 4. Curios and curiosity: notes on reading Torday and Frobenius Johannes Fabian; Appendix: on the ethnography and economics of collecting, from Leo Frobenius'
- 5. Artes Africanae: the western discovery of 'art' in northeastern Congo
- 6. Nineteenth-century images of the Mangbetu in explorers' accounts
- 7. Personal styles and disciplinary paradigms
- 8. Where art and ethnology met: the Ward African collection at the
- 9. 'Magic, or as we usually say, art': a framework for comparing European and African art
- References
- Index
