Description
COSMOS
Antiquity, Africa, Oceania, Asia, Americas
Annual magazine. Anthology of Non-Western arts, texts by various specialists.
Published by the Musée Barbier-Mueller.
Contents
Laurence Mattet: Editorial
Emmanuel Grandjean: Cosmos: Interview with Didier Queloz
Nigel Barley: Aliens Prefer Blondes
Pascal Dibie: Under the Moon’s Watch
Jacques Chamay: The Cosmos as the Ancient Greeks Understood it
Jean-Marie Hosatte: The Great Decentring
Marie Mauzé: The Power of Stars in Native North American Societies
Suzanne Preston Blier: Cosmos as Labyrinth in African Art
Michèle Cros: Toulou and the Chameleons. Lobi Cosmic Echoes
Denis Ramseyer: Animism and Christianity. Cosmogony in the Forest Areas of Côte d’Ivoire
Hermione Waterfield: Trying to Make the Intangible Tangible, or Observations on the Cosmology of the Yoruba of Nigeria
Philippe Veuve: Sacred Deer of Japan: From Cosmogony to the Bushido
Ludovic Coupaye: Distributed Cosmology: Figures, Houses, Mounds and Gardens among the “Abelam”
Christian Coiffier: Creation Stories among the Iatmul of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea
Guigone Camus: The Kiribati Islands: A Chain of Myths
Kim Akermann: Making Rain when the Sun Shines
Maia Nuku: Weaving the Cosmos Together
Bérénice Geoffroy Schneiter: Cosmos-Cosmetics: Dancing Brushes
Gisèle Gueller: Fear of Disaster among the Stars
Laurence Mattet: Dealers’ Memories: Interviews with:
- Alain de Monbrison
- Thomas Murray
Anne-Joëlle Nardin : Activities of the Museum and the Fondation Culturelle Musée Barbier-Mueller
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