Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

96 S.; Illustr.; 24,5 cm; kart.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Ex. - Englisch. - Aus der Bibliothek von H. J. Koloß / Völkerkundemuseum Berlin. - The collection of art from the Congo State made for the British Museum during the opening decade of the twentieth century by the Hungarian adventurer-turned-anthropologist Emil Torday (1875-1931) is unparalleled amongst those from Central Africa. Comprising over 3,000 objects, covering the whole region lying along the southern reaches of the Equatorial Forest (now southern Zaire), the collection includes some of the most important and best-preserved wood sculpture from Africa and a comprehensive range of richly ornamented objects in wood, metal and textiles. The most celebrated feature of all these is a detailed attention to pattern and surface decoration. John Mack describes Torday's travels and his relationship with various Congolese peoples - notably Kwete, the King of the Kuba, whom Torday befriended and greatly admired. He also examines the emergence of a more documentary kind of anthropology than was encouraged by Victorian social theorists, and explores the role the British Museum was to play in this development. ? (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Preface ----- Patterns in the darkness ----- The notebook, the questionnaire and the camera ----- The Kwilu: an ethnographic apprenticeship ----- Into the 'Kingdom of Shamba the Great' ----- Objects and ideas ----- Bibliography ----- Index.