Description
Antiquity, Africa, Oceania, Asia, the Americas
Annual magazine. Anthology of Non-Western arts, texts by various specialists.
296 pages, 299 colour and 66 B/W illustrations, 9 maps.
Published by Musée Barbier-Mueller.
Contents
Laurence Mattet: Editorial
Laurence Mattet: Interviews with Gabriel Barbier-Mueller, Stéphane Barbier-Mueller and Thierry Barbier-Mueller
Nigel Barley: Coming to Terms with the Ancestors
Manthia Diawara & Terri Geis: The New Sacred Since André Breton and Edouard Glissant
Jean-Loïc Le Quellec: Shamanism and Rock Art
Matteo Campagnolo: The Portrait of the Sovereign on Currency, Its Origin and Development during the Reformation in France
Stéphen Rostain: The Shaman Was a Woman
Nimrod Bena: The Utensil Possesses Me
Alain-Michel Boyer: “A God Dances within Me”.The Spirituality of the Yaure
Louis Perrois: Ancestors and Spirits in the Traditions of Gabon
Jan Elsen: Bird’s-head Axes, the Secret Society, and Initiation Rites
Bertrand Goy: In Southern Madagascar, Fesira, an Antanosy Sculptor
Régis Gayraud: Rediscovering Charles Vignier
Estelle Niklès van Osselt & Marie Orsi: An Ode to the Ancestors.Two Chu Culture Artefacts
Timour Claquin Chambugong: Sociocultural Conceptions, Representations and Practices among the Garo
François Pannier: Buddhist Rituals and Persian Influences on Display in Two Masks from the Barbier-Mueller Collection
Ok-Kyung Pak: Shamans and Divers Turn Despair into Hope, and Distress into Abundance on the Island of Jeju, Korea
Adrien Viel: Preliminary Note on the Chepang of Nepal and Their Territory
Antonio Guerreiro: A Tale of ‘Two Doors’ from the Indonesian Archipelago: Bahau Saa’ and Toraja Sa’dan.
Jean-Marie Hosatte: Corine Sombrun. The Trance and Science
Laurence Mattet: Activities of the Museum and the Cultural Foundation
Gisèle Gueller: The Watcher on the Bench
Tributes to Monique Barbier-Mueller: Silvia Bächli, Gilles Barbier, Miquel Barceló, Alain-Michel Boyer, Farideh Cadot, Paolo Colombo, Max Engammare, Adelina von Fürstenberg-Herdringen, Patricia Myriam Isimat-Mirin, Emilia & Ilya Kabakov, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, Stéphane Martin, Joachim Pissaro, Markus Raetz, Jacques Toubon, Fabienne Verdier, Bob Wilson.
