Hair in African art and culture.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Munich Prestel 2000Description: 192 p. illContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0-945802-26-9
  • 3-7913-2291-5
Subject(s):
Partial 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.
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book Library of Ethnography 110.281 E Available 3199764-10

"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."

Bibliogr. : p. 186-189

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.