Eternal ancestors : the art of the Central African reliquary /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Other Authors:	LaGamma, Alisa, Boehm, Barbara Drake
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New Haven : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press, [2007]
Subjects:	Sculpture, Central African (Central Africa) > Exhibitions. Sculpture, Black > Africa, Central > Exhibitions. Reliquaries > Africa, Central > Exhibitions. Ancestral shrines > Africa, Central > Exhibitions. Sculpture, Central African (Central Africa) Sculpture, Black. Reliquaries. Ancestral shrines. Zentralafrika. New York <NY, 2007-2008>. Central Africa. Ausstellung. New York (NY, 2007) Exhibition catalogs.
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Table of Contents:

Director's foreword / Philippe de Montebello
Acknowledgments / Alisa LaGamma
Lenders to the exhibition
Map : Cultural regions represented by works in the catalogue
Eternal ancestors : the art of the Central African reliquary / 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
Catalogue
Central African reliquaries / Alisa LaGamma
Other works
Bibliography
Index
Photograph credits.

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