The Scramble for Art in Central Africa

• List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; 1. Objects and agendas: re-collecting the Congo Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim; 2. 'Enlightened but in darkness': interpretations of Kuba art and culture at the turn of the twentieth century David A. Binkley and Patricia J. Darish; 3. Kuba art and the birth of ethnography John Mack; 4. Curios and curiosity: notes on reading Torday and Frobenius Johannes Fabian; Appendix: on the ethnography and economics of collecting, from Leo Frobenius' Nochmals zu den Bakubavölkern Johannes Fabian; 5. Artes Africanae: the western discovery of 'art' in northeastern Congo Curtis A. Keim; 6. Nineteenth-century images of the Mangbetu in explorers' accounts Christaud M. Geary; 7. Personal styles and disciplinary paradigms: Frederick Starr and Herbert Lang Enid Schildkrout; 8. Where art and ethnology met: the Ward African collection at the Smithsonian Mary Jo Arnoldi; 9. 'Magic, or as we usually say, art': a framework for comparing European and African art Wyatt MacGaffey; References; Index.

'The Scramble for Art in Central Africa makes a major contribution to deepening our understanding of Central Africa through deepening our understanding of how our view of it has been constructed. Prospective readers should be further encouraged by the fact that the prose is clear and accessible throughout and the production excellent, with well-chosen illustrations.' The Times Literary Supplement