Material differences : art and identity in Africa /
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New York : Gent :
Museum for African Art ; Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon,
[2003]
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| ISBN: | 9053494588 9789053494585 094580234X 9780945802341 |
Table of Contents:
- Revealing forms through subtraction
- Sculpting in wood, ivory, and stone / Herman Burssens
- Transforming through fire
- Iron sculpture in Africa / William J. Dewey
- African ceramics / Jerome Vogel
- Sculpting in copper alloys / Frank Herreman
- "Brass never rusts, lead never rots": brass and brasscasting in the Edo Kingdom of Benin / Paula Ben-Amos Girshick
- Gold / Frank Herreman
- The ephemeral and 'un-transportable'
- The ephemeral and 'un-transportable' / Frank Herreman
- Leaf masks among the Bobo and the Bwa / Christopher D. Roy
- Earth revews earth: Igbo Mbari houses / Herbert M. Cole
- Eravwe: an ephemeral Urhobo water spirit masquerade / Perkins Foss
- Kalengula: ephemeral masks among the Luntu and neighboring peoples of the Democratic republic of the Congo and Angola / Constantine Petridis
- Accumulating power
- Enhancing spiritual and secular power through accumulating materials / Frank Herreman
- Tupele divination materials and their relative symbolic attributes / Manuel A. Jordan
- A French perspective on African 'power objects': travel, philosophical and anthropological accounts / Michele Chadeisson.