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020 $a1580933432 (hbk.)
020 $a9781580933438 (hbk.) :$cUSD60.00$
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050 4$aN7380.5$b.K74 2012
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100 1 $aKreamer, Christine Mullen.
245 10$aAfrican cosmos :$bstellar arts /$cChristine Mullen Kreamer ; with the assistance of Erin L. Haney, Katharine Monsted, and Karel Nel ; contributors, Randall Bird ... [et al.]
246 30$aStellar arts
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bNational Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution ;$aNew York :$cc2012.$bMonacelli Press,
300 $a368 p. :$bill. (chiefly col.) ;$c29 cm.
500 $aPublished in conjunction with an exhibition organized by and held at the National Museum of African Art, June 20-Dec. 9, 2012.
500 $a"African cultural astronomy from antiquity to the present"--Cover.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 00$tAfrican cultural astronomy: a constellation of symbols and metaphors /$rChristine Mullen Kreamer --$tThe early history of astronomy and cosmology /$rWallace Hooper --$tInhabiting the heavens: a divine tour of the ancient Egyptian sky /$rJennifer Houser Wegner --$tBridging science and culture: astronomy in Africa /$rThebe Rodney Medupe --$tCosmic Africa: African cultural astronomy and the research behind the film /$rAnne Rogers --$tGalileo in Senegal /$rKatrien Kolenberg --$tAfrican cosmos: performing the moral universe /$rChristine Mullen Kreamer --$tCosmos imagery in the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia /$rMarilyn E. Heldman --$tEarth, sky, ancestors: building the Merina world in nineteenth-century Madagascar /$rRandall Bird --$tPerforming cosmology: harmonies of land, lake, body, and sky /$rAllen F. Roberts --$tCosmic references in ancient Ife /$rSuzanne Preston Blier --$tAy el'oj a, Orunn'il e: imaging and performing Yoruba cosmology /$rBabatunde Lawal --$tSetting cosmos in motion: myths and initiation in Nkanu arts /$rAnnemieke Van Damme --$tIgbo wonder in clay and cloth: mbari houses and ijele masks /$rHerbert M. Cole --$tSons of the moon: Ngas astronomy and ritual on Nigeria's central plateau /$rDeirdre LaPin --$tMoonlight and clapping hands: Lozi cosmic arts of Barotseland (Western Zambua) /$rKaren E. Milbourne --$tA universe of possibilities: contemporary artists' perspectives on the cosmos /$rChristine Mullen Kreamer --$tChasing light /$rMarcus Neustetter interviewed by Erin L. Haney --$tCosmic threads: children of the stars and other projects /$rWillem Boshoff --$tThe cosmos and Africa: balancing data and the poetics of knowledge /$rKarel Nel.
650 0$aArt, African$vExhibitions.
650 0$aAstronomy in art$vExhibitions.
650 0$aCosmology in art$vExhibitions.
700 1 $aHaney, Erin.
700 1 $aMonsted, Katharine.
700 1 $aNel, Karel.
700 1 $aBird, Randall.