Hair in African art and culture
By: edited by Roy Sieber and Frank Herreman ; with contributions by Niangi Batulukisi ... [et al.].
Contributors: Sieber, Roy, 1923-; Herreman, Frank.; Batulukisi, Niangi.; Museum for African Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Museum for African Art; Prestel; Prestel Pub; Museum for African Art, New Yo
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York; Munich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Hairstyles -- Africa -- Exhibitions.; Hair in art -- Exhibitions.; Art, African -- Exhibitions.; Sculpture, African -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: "The exhibition, Hair in African Art and Culture, and this book serve to introduce a mode of African art too little and too infrequently recognized or appreciated. Field photographs and sculptures sample the rich variety of hair arrangements that exist or have existed in traditional African life and art.

Despite the many references to the abstract character of African masks and figures it is clear that two areas of the real world were accurately, indeed realistically, depicted: scarification and coiffures.".

"Essays and notes address a number of aspects of African and African-American hair and collectively hint at the variety, complex meanings and history of hair styles. Some of the essays are personal, some present the nature of coiffures in the cycle of life: from birth to death, from celebration to mourning." "In traditional and modern Africa, and the African-American diaspora, hair styles establish a personal identity that reflects both fashion and aesthetic choice."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-189).
"Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title organized and presented by the Museum for African Art, New York from 9 February to 28 May 2000."--Verso t.p.
Table of contents: title: Prelude: Hairdressing; title: Prologue / Roy Sieber; title: History / Ray Sieber; title: Hair in African art and culture / Niangi Batulukusi; title: Interlude 1: status or identity: spiritual or secular; title: Sculptural modes of representing coiffures / Frank Herreman; title: Interlude 2: Wigs, hats and beards; title: Women's hair and Sowei Masks in Southern Sierra Leone and Western Liberia / William Siegmann; title: Coiffures of the Dan and Wè of Ivory Coast in 1938-39 / Elze Bruyninx; title: Interlude III: Children and dolls; title: A note on hair and mourning, wspecially in Ghana / Roy Sieber; title: Orilonse. The Hermeneutics of the head and hairstyles among the Yoruba / Babatunde Lawal; title: Hairstyles among the Margi / James H. Vaughan; title: Mangbetu hairstyles and the art of seduction: "Lipombo" / Els de Palmanaer; title: Interlude IV: Tools and ornaments; title: Hair matters in South Central Africa / Manuel Jordan; title: Cross dressing for the Spirits in Shamba Ughanga / Barbara Thompson; title: A note on Gender Reversal / Ray Sieber; title: Headrests and hair ornaments: signifying more than status / Karel Nel; title: Interlude V: Neck rests; title: Rasta hair, US and Ghana: a personal note / Marianna Ross; title: Interlude VI: Contemporary Africa; title: What is really happening here? Black hair among African Americans and in American culture / Kennel Jackson.