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African cosmos : stellar arts / Christine Mullen Kreamer ; with the assistance of Erin L. Haney, Katharine Monsted, and Karel Nel ; contributors, Randall Bird ... [et al.]

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Washington, D.C. : National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution ; New York : Monacelli Press, c2012.Description: 368 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 1580933432 (hbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • N7380.5 .K74 2012
Contents:
African cultural astronomy: a constellation of symbols and metaphors / Christine Mullen Kreamer -- The early history of astronomy and cosmology / Wallace Hooper -- Inhabiting the heavens: a divine tour of the ancient Egyptian sky / Jennifer Houser Wegner -- Bridging science and culture: astronomy in Africa / Thebe Rodney Medupe -- Cosmic Africa: African cultural astronomy and the research behind the film / Anne Rogers -- Galileo in Senegal / Katrien Kolenberg -- African cosmos: performing the moral universe / Christine Mullen Kreamer -- Cosmos imagery in the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia / Marilyn E. Heldman -- Earth, sky, ancestors: building the Merina world in nineteenth-century Madagascar / Randall Bird -- Performing cosmology: harmonies of land, lake, body, and sky / Allen F. Roberts -- Cosmic references in ancient Ife / Suzanne Preston Blier -- AyeÌl'ojaÌ, OÌrunn'ileÌ: imaging and performing Yoruba cosmology / Babatunde Lawal -- Setting cosmos in motion: myths and initiation in Nkanu arts / Annemieke Van Damme -- Igbo wonder in clay and cloth: mbari houses and ijele masks / Herbert M. Cole -- Sons of the moon: Ngas astronomy and ritual on Nigeria's central plateau / Deirdre LaPin -- Moonlight and clapping hands: Lozi cosmic arts of Barotseland (Western Zambua) / Karen E. Milbourne -- A universe of possibilities: contemporary artists' perspectives on the cosmos / Christine Mullen Kreamer -- Chasing light / Marcus Neustetter interviewed by Erin L. Haney -- Cosmic threads: children of the stars and other projects / Willem Boshoff -- The cosmos and Africa: balancing data and the poetics of knowledge / Karel Nel.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks N7380.5 .K74 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001215770

Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by and held at the National Museum of African Art, June 20-Dec. 9, 2012.

"African cultural astronomy from antiquity to the present"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

African cultural astronomy: a constellation of symbols and metaphors / Christine Mullen Kreamer -- The early history of astronomy and cosmology / Wallace Hooper -- Inhabiting the heavens: a divine tour of the ancient Egyptian sky / Jennifer Houser Wegner -- Bridging science and culture: astronomy in Africa / Thebe Rodney Medupe -- Cosmic Africa: African cultural astronomy and the research behind the film / Anne Rogers -- Galileo in Senegal / Katrien Kolenberg -- African cosmos: performing the moral universe / Christine Mullen Kreamer -- Cosmos imagery in the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia / Marilyn E. Heldman -- Earth, sky, ancestors: building the Merina world in nineteenth-century Madagascar / Randall Bird -- Performing cosmology: harmonies of land, lake, body, and sky / Allen F. Roberts -- Cosmic references in ancient Ife / Suzanne Preston Blier -- AyeÌl'ojaÌ, OÌrunn'ileÌ: imaging and performing Yoruba cosmology / Babatunde Lawal -- Setting cosmos in motion: myths and initiation in Nkanu arts / Annemieke Van Damme -- Igbo wonder in clay and cloth: mbari houses and ijele masks / Herbert M. Cole -- Sons of the moon: Ngas astronomy and ritual on Nigeria's central plateau / Deirdre LaPin -- Moonlight and clapping hands: Lozi cosmic arts of Barotseland (Western Zambua) / Karen E. Milbourne -- A universe of possibilities: contemporary artists' perspectives on the cosmos / Christine Mullen Kreamer -- Chasing light / Marcus Neustetter interviewed by Erin L. Haney -- Cosmic threads: children of the stars and other projects / Willem Boshoff -- The cosmos and Africa: balancing data and the poetics of knowledge / Karel Nel.

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