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Art and Healing of the BaKongo Commented by Themselves: Minkisi from the Laman Collection

An annotated translation of early-twentieth-century Kikongo notebooks describing minkisi, reframing the consecrated objects as instruments of social and political relation through their makers' own words.

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Author
Wyatt MacGaffey
Type
Book
Written
1991
Edition
1991
Publisher
Folkens museum-etnografiska, Stockholm (Monograph series 16); Indiana University Press was the North American distributor, not the publisher
Language
English
Tradition
Kongo
Identifiers
ISBN9789185344246 / 9185344249

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