TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kreamer,Christine Mullen
AU  - Haney,Erin
AU  - Monsted,Katharine
AU  - Nel,Karel
AU  - Bird,Randall
TI  - African cosmos: stellar arts 
SN  - 1580933432 (hbk.)
AV  - N7380.5 .K74 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Washington, D.C., New York
PB  - National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Monacelli Press
KW  - Art, African
KW  - Exhibitions
KW  - Astronomy in art
KW  - Cosmology in art
N1  - 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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