Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination
80 pages
55 illustrations
This title is out of print.
Acknowledgments
Director's Foreword
Philippe de Montebello
Introduction
Alisa LaGamma
Map of Sub-Saharan Africa
John Pemberton III
Catalogue
Oracular Sculpture: Figurative Divination Instruments
Visual Metaphors: Ifa Divination Instruments
Dynamic Devices: Kinetic Oracles
Visual Commentaries: Sets of Divination Signs
Invoking the Spirits: Musical Devices
Emblems of Enlightenment and Power: Diviners' Insignias
Empowering the Individual: Diviners' Prescriptions
The Iconography of Divination: Monuments of Divine Insight
Checklist of the Exhibition
Bibliography
Photograph Credits
Met Art in Publication
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Citation
LaGamma, Alisa, and John Pemberton. 2000. Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams.