Enid Schildkrout / Curtis Keim (eds.)

The Scramble for Art in Central Africa

Herausgeber: Keim, Curtis; Schildkrout, Enid

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Contributors to this volume trace the life history of artifacts that were brought to Europe and America from the Congo toward the end of the 19th century--and that became the subjects of museum displays. They also discuss the complex and sensitive issues involved in the business of "collecting", and consider how these objects were used in the invention of Africa by the West. 29 photos.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780521586788
• ISBN-10: 052158678X
• Artikelnr.: 20966858

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
1. Objects and agendas: re-collecting the Congo Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim
2. 'Enlightened but in darkness': interpretations of Kuba art and culture at the turn of the twentieth century David A. Binkley and Patricia J. Darish
3. Kuba art and the birth of ethnography John Mack
4. Curios and curiosity: notes on reading Torday and Frobenius Johannes Fabian
Appendix: on the ethnography and economics of collecting, from Leo Frobenius' Nochmals zu den Bakubavölkern Johannes Fabian
5. Artes Africanae: the western discovery of 'art' in northeastern Congo Curtis A. Keim
6. Nineteenth-century images of the Mangbetu in explorers' accounts Christaud M. Geary
7. Personal styles and disciplinary paradigms: Frederick Starr and Herbert Lang Enid Schildkrout
8. Where art and ethnology met: the Ward African collection at the Smithsonian Mary Jo Arnoldi
9. 'Magic, or as we usually say, art': a framework for comparing European and African art Wyatt MacGaffey
References
Index.