Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary
368 pages
233 illustrations
American Association of Museums Award for Outstanding Exhibition Catalogue, Honorable Mention (2007)
This title is out of print.
Director's Foreword
Philippe de Montebello
Acknowledgments
Alisa LaGamma
Lenders to the Exhibition
Map: Cultural Regions Represented by Works in the Catalogue
Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary
Alisa LaGamma
Of Ancestors and Earth Spirits: New Approaches for Interpreting Central African Politics, Religion, and Art
Kairn Klieman
The Western Historiography of African Reliquary Sculpture
Louis Perrois
Ancestor Veneration in Central Africa
Elias K. Bongmba
"To learned people this may seem to be full of superstition": Reliquary Sculpture in the Medieval Christian Tradition
Barbara Boehm
The Body Eternal: The Aesthetics of Equatorial African Reliquary Sculpture
Alisa LaGamma
Catalogue
Central African Reliquaries
Alisa LaGamma
Other Works
Bibliography
Index
Photograph Credits
Met Art in Publication
Alfred Stieglitz
1915
Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)
ca. 1st–3rd century
Ruan Zude
datable to 1561 or 1620
Fang/Kele people
19th century
French
ca. 1220–40, with later grill
German
ca. 1500–1525
Byzantine
6th century
South Netherlandish
ca. 1230
French
ca. 1175–1200
Fang peoples, Okak group
19th–early 20th century
Fang-Betsi artist
19th century
Kota peoples, Mbete group
19th century
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Citation
LaGamma, Alisa, Barbara Drake Boehm, and Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), eds. 2007. Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary. New York : New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press.