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Author : Hans-Joachim Koloss
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870995903
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:429605307
Author : Ethnologisches Museum Berlin
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015056810982
One of the leading collections of African art in the world, the African collection at Berlin's Ethnological Museum contains important masterpieces from many different regions of the continent. This stunning book includes more than two hundred color and black-and-white reproductions of masks, ceremonial figures, musical instruments, and objects of everyday life from throughout Africa. Among the jewels in the museum are the Ife Collection from Nigeria; rare Benin bronzes; Afro-Portuguese ivories; magical figures from the Lower Congo and a host of East African sculpture and masks that have gained increasing attention in recent years. Essays by leading ethnologists supply important cultural and historical information on each region, as well as fascinating insights into the ways European and African art have traded influences over the centuries.
Author : Erna Beumers,Hans-Joachim Koloss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:968357531
Author : Anitra Nettleton
Publisher : Wits University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781868144587
African headrests are treated as art objects in this historical study African Dream Machines takes African headrests out of the category of functional objects and into the more rarefied category of "art" objects. Styles in African headrests are usually defined in terms of Western art and archaeological discourses, but this book interrogates these definitions and demonstrates the shortcomings of defining a single formal style model as exclusive to a single ethnic group. This book has been in the making for fifteen years, starting with research on the traditional woodcarving of the Shona-and Venda-speaking peoples of Zimbabwe and South Africa. Among the artifacts made by South African peoples, headrests were the best known and during a year spent in Europe in 1975 and 1976, Anitra Nettleton discovered museum stores full of unacknowledged masterpieces made by speakers of numerous Southern African languages. A Council Fellowship from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1990 enabled the writer to develop an archive in the form of notes, photographs, and sketches of each and every headrest she encountered. Many examples from South African collections were added from the early 1990s onwards, expanding the field vastly. Nettelton executed drawings of each and every headrest encountered, and they became a major part of the project in their own right. African Dream Machines questions the assumed one-to-one relationship between formal styles and ethnic identities or classifications. Historical factors are used to demonstrate that "authenticity," in the form sought by collectors of antique African art, is largely a construct.
Author : Margareta von Oswald
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789462703100
Reckoning with colonial legacies in Western museum collections What are the possibilities and limits of engaging with colonialism in ethnological museums? This book addresses this question from within the Africa department of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. It captures the Museum at a moment of substantial transformation, as it prepared the move of its exhibition to the Humboldt Forum, a newly built and contested cultural centre on Berlin’s Museum Island. The book discusses almost a decade of debate in which German colonialism was negotiated, and further recognised, through conflicts over colonial museum collections. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork examining the Museum’s various work practices, this book highlights the Museum’s embeddedness in colonial logics and shows how these unfold in the Museum’s everyday activity. It addresses the diverse areas of expertise in the Ethnological Museum – the preservation, storage, curation, and research of collections – and also draws on archival research and oral history interviews with current and former employees. Working through Colonial Collections unravels the ongoing and laborious processes of reckoning with colonialism in the Ethnological Museum’s present – processes from which other ethnological museums, as well as Western museums more generally, can learn.
Author : Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale,Gustaaf Verswijver
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X006055445
Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Treasures of the Tervuren Museum held at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa in 1996-97.
Author : Pooyan Tamimi Arab,Jennifer Scheper Hughes,S. Brent Rodríguez-Plate
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351176224
The Routledge Handbook of Material Religion places objects and bodies at the center of scholarly studies of religious life and practice. Propelling forward the study of material religion, the Handbook first reveals the deep philosophical roots of its key categories and then advances new critical analytics, such as queer materialities, inescapable material entanglements, and hyperobjects that explode the small-scale personal view on religions. The Handbook comprises thirty chapters, written by an international team of contributors who offer a global perspective of religious pasts and presents, divided into four thematic parts: Genealogies of Material Religion Materializing the Terms of the Study of Religion Entanglements, Entrapment, Escaping Hyperobjects, or How Ginormous Things Affect Religions In these four parts, the study of material religion is redirected towards systematic, critical interrogations of the imbrication of religious structures of power with racial, economic, political, and gendered forms of domination. From Spinoza’s political theology to African philosophies of ubuntu; from the queer materialities of Mesoamerican religion to the Satanic Temple of the United States; from Islamic love and sacrifice in human-animal entanglements to Shia militants’ attachment to weaponry; from epidemic cataclysm in Latin America to vast infrastructures and the gathering of millions in India’s Kumbh Mela, the study of material religion proves to be the study par excellence of the human condition. The Handbook is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, anthropology, history, and media studies, and will also be of interest to those in related fields such as archeology, sociology, and philosophy.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780300193206
The present volume, Publications of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964-2005, is a successor to a volume published by the Museum in 1965 entitled Publications of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1870-1964. These two bibliographic volumes endeavor to list all the known books, pamphlets, and serial publications bearing the Museum's imprint, and issued by the institution during the first 135 years of its existence (through June 2005). The first volume was compiled by Albert TenEyck Gardner, at the time an Associate Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, and the present volume has been compiled from the Annual Reports issued by the Museum during the relevant years. Together the two volumes testify to the tremendous contributions made to knowledge by the curators and conservators of the Metropolitan and by the many other experts who have contributed to the Museum's exhibition catalogues. Various issues of the Bulletin emphasize the great sweep of the Museum's acquisitions during these years, and the exhibition catalogues--a number of them Alfred H. Barr Jr., Award or the George Wittenborn Award--testify to the continuity of the institution's dedicated program to enrich people's lives through knowledge of art. (This title was originally published in 2006.)
Author : Hans-Joachim Koloss
Publisher : Dietrich Reimer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Anthropologists
ISBN : 3496028572
In this volume, which features an abundance of excellent color illustrations, Hans-Joachim Koloss describes the circumstances and settings of his research. His fieldwork largely focused on the secret societies. Hence, an enthralling story unfolds which is not only about the everyday events and problems faced by the researcher, but also about the almost unlimited support granted him by the dignitaries. The comprehensive material collected in the course of his research - particularly on the monarchical and egalitarian as well as religious traditions - lent itself as a basis for a discussion not only of specific aspects of modern fieldwork theory, but also of the results gained by other fieldworkers in Oku. This is the final volume of his Cameroon trilogy. It has been preceded by the volumes World-View and Society in Oku (Cameroon) (2000) and Traditional Institutions in Kembong (Cameroon) (2008).
Author : V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253208726
"... this is a remarkable book. It will occupy a significant place in the critical literature of African Studies." --International Journal of African Historical Studies "To read Mudimbe is to walk through a museum of many exhibits in the company of an erudite companion who explains, with much learned commentary, what you are seeing." --American Anthropologist "Mudimbe's sympathetic yet rigorous accounts of such diverse Africanist discourses as Herskovits's cultural relativism and contemporary Afrocentricity bring to the surface the underlying goals and contexts in which these were produced." --Ivan Karp A sequel to his highly acclaimed The Invention of Africa, this is V. Y. Mudimbe's exploration of how the "idea" of Africa was constructed by the Western world.
Author : Phyllis M. Martin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253220554
Catholic Women of Congo-Brazzaville explores the changing relationship between women and the Catholic Church from the establishment of the first mission stations in the late 1880s to the present. Phyllis M. Martin emphasizes the social identity of mothers and the practice of motherhood, a prime concern of Congolese women, as they individually and collectively made sense of their place within the Church. Martin traces women's early resistance to missionary overtures and church schools, and follows their relationship with missionary Sisters, their later embrace of church-sponsored education, their participation in popular Catholicism, and the formation of women's fraternities. As they drew together as mothers and sisters, Martin asserts, women began to affirm their place in a male-dominated institution. Covering more than a century of often turbulent times, this rich and readable book examines an era of far-reaching social change in Central Africa.
Author : Alisa LaGamma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588394323
Issued in connection with an exhibition held Sept. 20, 2011-Jan. 29, 2012, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and at the Rietberg Museum, Zeurich, at later dates.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Administrative law
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU14245914
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Administrative law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006298934