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Alisa LaGamma

Alisa LaGamma is the Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Curator of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

She received her PhD from Columbia University in 1995 for a dissertation titled "The Art of the Punu Mukudj Masquerade: Portrait of an Equatorial Society", for which she carried out a year of fieldwork in southern Gabon.

In 1998, she was a guest editor for "African Arts" journal.

In 2012, she received the Iris Award for Outstanding Scholarship of the Bard Graduate Center in recognition of her contribution to rethinking the history of sub-Saharan African art and culture.

She curated the exhibition "Kongo: Power and Majesty". Provided by Wikipedia
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    Heroic Africans : legendary leaders, iconic sculptures by LaGamma, Alisa

    Published 2011
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    Genesis : ideas of origin in African sculpture by LaGamma, Alisa

    Published 2002
    Electronic Book
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    Kongo : power and majesty by LaGamma, Alisa

    Published 2015
    Book
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    Sahel : art and empire on the shores of the Sahara by LaGamma, Alisa

    Published 2020
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    Art and oracle : African art and rituals of divination by LaGamma, Alisa

    Published 2000
    Book
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    Eternal ancestors : the art of the Central African reliquary

    Published 2007
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