Description
Antiquity, Africa, Oceania, Asia, the Americas
Annual magazine. Anthology of Non-Western arts, texts by various specialists.
336 pages, 200 colour and B/W illustrations, 11 maps.
Published by Musée Barbier-Mueller and Somogy Editions d’art.
Distributed by National Book Network (NBN).
Contents
Laurence Mattet Editorial
Laurence Mattet Ousmane Sow Interviewed
Pierre Amiet Oriental Antiquity: Problems and Hypotheses
Véronique Schiltz A Caucasian Bronze Openwork Plaque
Consuelo Varela and Juan Gil Christopher Columbus’s Interpreters
José R. Oliver and Colin McEwan The Caribbean before Columbus: Fray Ramon Pané and the Taíno Religious Universe
Daniela Bognolo The Animal at the Heart of Identity: An Encounter with Tussian Culture in Burkina Faso
Constantin Petridis Is it a Mortar or Is it a Charm? A Luluwa Caryatid Container
Nigel Barley My Sociological Year
Anne-Claire Juramie Jewellery of Nepal. Three Necklaces in the Barbier-Mueller Collections
Arlette Ziegler and Alain Viaro Nias… Thirty Years of Adventure!
Proceedings of the Conference Organized in Partnership with the Musée d’Ethnographie of Geneva
· Roberta Colombo Dougoud A Budding Anthropologist in Papua New Guinea
· Christian Kaufmann The Representation of Oceania before 1914. Towards a History of Collections and Collectors
· Ludovic Coupaye Experiencing Spaces: The Tëkët frieze of the Abelam
· Philippe Peltier Masks and Canoes of the Murik Lake
Roger Boulay Ornemental Assegais of New Caledonia
Laurence Mattet Museum’s Activitie
Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller Confidentially Yours
