ISBN:
9780977834457
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9780977834464
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
607 S.
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zahlr. Ill., Kt.
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31 cm
DDC:
709.6695
Schlagwort(e):
Art, Nigerian Exhibitions
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Art, Nigerian Exhibitions
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Masks Exhibitions
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Benue River Valley (Cameroon and Nigeria) Exhibitions Social life and customs
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Ausstellungskatalog
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Ausstellungskatalog
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Staat Plateau
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Staat Benue
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Nigeria
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Kunst
Kurzfassung:
The Lower Benue: fluid artistic identities -- Introduction: reimagining Lower Benue art history / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir -- Idoma art and the intersection of Benue histories and geographies / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir -- Interleaf A: Idoma and Tiv artists / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir -- Interleaf B: Umale: an Igala artist / Susan Picton -- The ancestral masquerade: a paradigm of Benue Valley art history / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir -- The Igala Egwu Afia / John Boston -- Ebira masquerade and its histories / John Picton -- Ndako Gboya masquerades of the Nupe / Constanze Weise -- Power and gender in the history of Egungun / John Willis -- Dead fathers of Okpella / Jean Borgatti -- Ebira and the Niger-Benue confluence: material culture and masquerade; artifact and identity revisited / John Picton -- Igala masquerades and figure sculpture / John Boston -- Lost-wax casting along the Benue / Nancy Neaher Maas -- Interleaf C: A note on the "Igala" bell / Nancy Neaher Maas -- Interleaf D: A note on Idoma bells and smoking pipes / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir -- The Middle Benue: visual resemblances and connected histories -- Introduction: the Middle Benue / Richard Fardon -- The quick and the dead: versatile wooden figures from Middle Benue / Richard Fardon -- Interleaf E: Wurbo Jukun sculpture from the Taraba and Wase river valleys / Marla C. Berns -- A memoir: the Jukun of the Middle Benue with a brief entry on the Goemai / Arnold Rubin -- Hybrids: theranthropic horizontal masquerades from the Middle Benue / Richard Fardon -- Interleaf F: Mining the Rubin archive: mid-twentieth-century documentation of two Mumuye Vaa-Bong masquerades / Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi -- Seen or heard? masquerades that cry and figures that talk among the Mumuye / Mette Bovin -- Interleaf G: Heavy metal: the prestige of iron in the Middle Benue / Richard Fardon -- Kantana, Kulere, and their neighbors south of the Jos plateau / Barbara Frank -- Interleaf H: A myriad of Mangam masks / Marla C. Berns -- Embodiments large and small: sacred wood sculpture of the Wurkun and Bikwin / Joerg Adelberger -- Enigmatic embodiments: vertical masks in cross-cultural perspective / Marla C. Berns -- The Upper Benue: expressive and ritual capacities of clay -- Introduction to Upper Benue arts / Marla C. Berns -- Modeling therapies: vessels for healing and protection in the Western Gongola valley / Marla C. Berns -- Containing power: identities in clay in the Eastern Gongola valley, the Ga'anda / Marla C. Berns -- Containing power: identities in clay in the Eastern Gongola valley, the 'Bena, Yungur, and Dera / Marla C. Berns -- Interleaf I: Vestiges in wood: ancestor sculptures of the Eastern Gongola valley / Marla C. Berns -- Epilogue: making the market for Benue arts: notes on the French connection / Hélène Joubert
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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"... accompanies an exhibition that opened at the Fowler Museum in February 2011 and will travel to venues in Washington, D.C., Stanford, and Paris" - Preface. - Includes bibliographical references
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The Lower Benue: fluid artistic identities ; Introduction: reimagining Lower Benue art history
,
Idoma art and the intersection of Benue histories and geographies
,
Interleaf A: Idoma and Tiv artists
,
Interleaf B: Umale: an Igala artist
,
The ancestral masquerade: a paradigm of Benue Valley art history
,
The Igala Egwu Afia
,
Ebira masquerade and its histories
,
Ndako Gboya masquerades of the Nupe
,
Power and gender in the history of Egungun
,
Dead fathers of Okpella
,
Ebira and the Niger-Benue confluence: material culture and masquerade; artifact and identity revisited
,
Igala masquerades and figure sculpture
,
Lost-wax casting along the Benue
,
Interleaf C: A note on the "Igala" bell
,
Interleaf D: A note on Idoma bells and smoking pipes
,
The Middle Benue: visual resemblances and connected histories ; Introduction: the Middle Benue
,
The quick and the dead: versatile wooden figures from Middle Benue
,
Interleaf E: Wurbo Jukun sculpture from the Taraba and Wase river valleys
,
A memoir: the Jukun of the Middle Benue with a brief entry on the Goemai
,
Hybrids: theranthropic horizontal masquerades from the Middle Benue
,
Interleaf F: Mining the Rubin archive: mid-twentieth-century documentation of two Mumuye Vaa-Bong masquerades
,
Seen or heard? masquerades that cry and figures that talk among the Mumuye
,
Interleaf G: Heavy metal: the prestige of iron in the Middle Benue
,
Kantana, Kulere, and their neighbors south of the Jos plateau
,
Interleaf H: A myriad of Mangam masks
,
Embodiments large and small: sacred wood sculpture of the Wurkun and Bikwin
,
Enigmatic embodiments: vertical masks in cross-cultural perspective
,
The Upper Benue: expressive and ritual capacities of clay ; Introduction to Upper Benue arts
,
Modeling therapies: vessels for healing and protection in the Western Gongola valley
,
Containing power: identities in clay in the Eastern Gongola valley, the Ga'anda
,
Containing power: identities in clay in the Eastern Gongola valley, the 'Bena, Yungur, and Dera
,
Interleaf I: Vestiges in wood: ancestor sculptures of the Eastern Gongola valley
,
Epilogue: making the market for Benue arts: notes on the French connection
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