The Scramble for Art in Central Africa

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List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgments 1. Objects and agendas: re-collecting the Congo Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim 2. 'Enlightened but in darkness': interpretations of Kuba art and culture at the turn of the twentieth century David A. Binkley and Patricia J. Darish 3. Kuba art and the birth of ethnography John Mack 4. Curios and curiosity: notes on reading Torday and Frobenius Johannes Fabian Appendix: on the ethnography and economics of collecting, from Leo Frobenius' Nochmals zu den Bakubavolkern Johannes Fabian 5. Artes Africanae: the western discovery of 'art' in northeastern Congo Curtis A. Keim 6. Nineteenth-century images of the Mangbetu in explorers' accounts Christaud M. Geary 7. Personal styles and disciplinary paradigms: Frederick Starr and Herbert Lang Enid Schildkrout 8. Where art and ethnology met: the Ward African collection at the Smithsonian Mary Jo Arnoldi 9. 'Magic, or as we usually say, art': a framework for comparing European and African art Wyatt MacGaffey References Index.