African cosmos : stellar arts / Christine Mullen Kreamer ; with the assistance of Erin L. Haney, Katharine Monsted, and Karel Nel ; contributors, Randall Bird ... [et al.].

• African cultural astronomy: a constellation of symbols and metaphors / Christine Mullen Kreamer -- The early history of astronomy and cosmology / Wallace Hooper -- Inhabiting the heavens: a divine tour of the ancient Egyptian sky / Jennifer Houser Wegner -- Bridging science and culture: astronomy in Africa / Thebe Rodney Medupe -- Cosmic Africa: African cultural astronomy and the research behind the film / Anne Rogers -- Galileo in Senegal / Katrien Kolenberg -- African cosmos: performing the moral universe / Christine Mullen Kreamer -- Cosmos imagery in the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia / Marilyn E. Heldman -- Earth, sky, ancestors: building the Merina world in nineteenth-century Madagascar / Randall Bird -- Performing cosmology: harmonies of land, lake, body, and sky / Allen F. Roberts -- Cosmic references in ancient Ife / Suzanne Preston Blier -- Ayél'ojà, Òrunn'ilé: imaging and performing Yoruba cosmology / Babatunde Lawal -- Setting cosmos in motion: myths and initiation in Nkanu arts / Annemieke Van Damme -- Igbo wonder in clay and cloth: mbari houses and ijele masks / Herbert M. Cole -- Sons of the moon: Ngas astronomy and ritual on Nigeria's central plateau / Deirdre LaPin -- Moonlight and clapping hands: Lozi cosmic arts of Barotseland (Western Zambua) / Karen E. Milbourne -- A universe of possibilities: contemporary artists' perspectives on the cosmos / Christine Mullen Kreamer -- Chasing light / Marcus Neustetter interviewed by Erin L. Haney -- Cosmic threads: children of the stars and other projects / Willem Boshoff -- The cosmos and Africa: balancing data and the poetics of knowledge / Karel Nel.

• "A groundbreaking scholarly publication, accompanying an exhibition organized by the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, African Cosmos: Stellar Arts brings together exceptional works of art, dating from ancient times to the present, and essays by leading scholars and contemporary artists to consider African cultural astronomy: creativity and artistic practice in Africa as it is linked to celestial bodies and atmospheric phenomena. African concepts of the universe are intensely personal, placing human beings in relation to the earth and sky, and with the sun, moon, and stars. At the core of creation myths and the foundation of moral values, celestial bodies are often accorded sacred capacities and are part of the "cosmological map" that allows humans to chart their course through life."--Publisher's website. 

Ämnesord

Art, African  -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Astronomy in art  -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Cosmology in art  -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Klassifikation

N7380.5 (LCC)

709.6 (DDC)

Ib-p (kssb/8 (machine generated))