Lukasa! (The Devil's Toy). African Inspirations and Western Objects
This paper shows the encounter between an object found among the Luba of Zaire and the art historical treatment of it by western scholars. In this encounter certain tendencies are pointed out which on one hand point to a greatly unackowledged bias of western scholars in their regarding of foreign ob...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Gents Afrika Platform, Afrika Brug
1996-09-01
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Series: | Afrika Focus |
Online Access: | https://ojs.ugent.be/AF/article/view/5600 |