Kreamer, Christine Mullen. <br/><br/>
African cosmos :  stellar arts / 
Christine Mullen Kreamer ; with the assistance of Erin L. Haney, Katharine Monsted, and Karel Nel ; contributors, Randall Bird ... [et al.] 
 - Washington, D.C. :  New York :  National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution ;  Monacelli Press,  c2012. 
 - 368 p. :  ill. (chiefly col.) ;  29 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> African cultural astronomy: a constellation of symbols and metaphors /  The early history of astronomy and cosmology /  Inhabiting the heavens: a divine tour of the ancient Egyptian sky /  Bridging science and culture: astronomy in Africa /  Cosmic Africa: African cultural astronomy and the research behind the film /  Galileo in Senegal /  African cosmos: performing the moral universe /  Cosmos imagery in the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia /  Earth, sky, ancestors: building the Merina world in nineteenth-century Madagascar /  Performing cosmology: harmonies of land, lake, body, and sky /  Cosmic references in ancient Ife /  AyeÌl'ojaÌ, OÌrunn'ileÌ: imaging and performing Yoruba cosmology /  Setting cosmos in motion: myths and initiation in Nkanu arts /  Igbo wonder in clay and cloth: mbari houses and ijele masks /  Sons of the moon: Ngas astronomy and ritual on Nigeria's central plateau /  Moonlight and clapping hands: Lozi cosmic arts of Barotseland (Western Zambua) /  A universe of possibilities: contemporary artists' perspectives on the cosmos /  Chasing light /  Cosmic threads: children of the stars and other projects /  The cosmos and Africa: balancing data and the poetics of knowledge /  Christine Mullen Kreamer --  Wallace Hooper --  Jennifer Houser Wegner --  Thebe Rodney Medupe --  Anne Rogers --  Katrien Kolenberg --  Christine Mullen Kreamer --  Marilyn E. Heldman --  Randall Bird --  Allen F. Roberts --  Suzanne Preston Blier --  Babatunde Lawal --  Annemieke Van Damme --  Herbert M. Cole --  Deirdre LaPin --  Karen E. Milbourne --  Christine Mullen Kreamer --  Marcus Neustetter interviewed by Erin L. Haney --  Willem Boshoff --  Karel Nel. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1580933432 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012941718 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB272990  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Art, African--Exhibitions.<br/>Astronomy in art--Exhibitions.<br/>Cosmology in art--Exhibitions.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>N7380.5  / .K74 2012