Memory : Luba art and the making of history / edited by Mary Nooter Roberts and Allen F. Roberts ; with contributions by S. Terry Childs ... et al.

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Author: Roberts, Mary Nooter; Roberts, Allen F. 1945-; Childs, S. Terry; Museum for African Art (New York, N.Y.); National Museum of African Art (U.S.)

Catalog of an exhibition organized by the Museum for African Art, New York (Feb. 2-Sept. 8, 1996). Also exhibited at the National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C. (Oct. 30, 1996-Jan. 26, 1997).; Includes glossary of Luba terms.
Contents: From memory to history : processes of Luba historical consciousness / Jan Vansina -- Audacities of memory / Mary Nooter Roberts and Allen F. Roberts -- Re/constructing Luba pasts / S. Terry Childs and Pierre de Maret -- Forging memory / William J. Dewey and S. Terry Childs -- Body memory / Mary Nooter Roberts and Allen F. Roberts, with an essay by Jeanette Kawende Fina Nkindi and Guy De Plaen -- Luba memory theater / Mary Nooter Roberts -- Mapping memory ; Memory in motion / Mary Nooter Roberts and Allen F. Roberts -- Peripheral visions / Allen F. Roberts, with a contribution from Pierre Petit -- The idea of Luba / V.Y. Mudimbe

1996

C1996

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Topic: Sculpture, Congolese (Democratic Republic); Sculpture, Luba; Wood-carving, Luba; Ironwork, Luba; Art, Luba; Art, Congolese (Democratic Republic); Psychology; Historiography; Art and history; Memory; Mnemonics