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Museum for African Art, Prestel, Prestel Pub, Museum for African Art, New Yo
Language
English
Pages
192

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Subjects
Exhibitions, Hair in art, African Sculpture, Hairstyles, African Art, Hair, Art, african, Popular culture, Africa, civilization, African americans, social life and customs, African american arts, Hairdressing of blacks

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Table of Contents

Prelude: Hairdressing
Prologue / Roy Sieber
History / Ray Sieber
Hair in African art and culture / Niangi Batulukusi
Interlude 1: status or identity: spiritual or secular
Sculptural modes of representing coiffures / Frank Herreman
Interlude 2: Wigs, hats and beards
Women's hair and Sowei Masks in Southern Sierra Leone and Western Liberia / William Siegmann
Coiffures of the Dan and Wè of Ivory Coast in 1938-39 / Elze Bruyninx
Interlude III: Children and dolls
A note on hair and mourning, wspecially in Ghana / Roy Sieber
Orilonse. The Hermeneutics of the head and hairstyles among the Yoruba / Babatunde Lawal
Hairstyles among the Margi / James H. Vaughan
Mangbetu hairstyles and the art of seduction: "Lipombo" / Els de Palmanaer
Interlude IV: Tools and ornaments
Hair matters in South Central Africa / Manuel Jordan
Cross dressing for the Spirits in Shamba Ughanga / Barbara Thompson
A note on Gender Reversal / Ray Sieber
Headrests and hair ornaments: signifying more than status / Karel Nel
Interlude V: Neck rests
Rasta hair, US and Ghana: a personal note / Marianna Ross
Interlude VI: Contemporary Africa
What is really happening here? Black hair among African Americans and in American culture / Kennel Jackson.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-189).
"Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title organized and presented by the Museum for African Art, New York from 9 February to 28 May 2000."--Verso t.p.

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New York, Munich
Genre
Exhibitions.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
391.5/096
Library of Congress
GT2295.A35 H35 2000, GT2295.A35H35 2000

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Pagination
192 p. :
Number of pages
192

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL55378M
Internet Archive
hairinafricanart0000unse
ISBN 10
3791322915, 0945802269
LCCN
99068113
OCLC/WorldCat
43665519
Library Thing
3619429
Goodreads
2788734

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