Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)

Director's Foreword / Philippe De Montebello -- Acknowledgments / Alisa Lagamma -- Lenders To The Exhibition -- Map : Cultural Regions Represented By Works In The Catalogue -- Eternal Ancestors : The Art Of The Central African Reliquary / Alisa Lagamma -- Of Ancestors And Earth Spirits : New Approaches For Interpreting Central African Politics, Religion, And Art / Kairn Klieman -- The Western Historiography Of African Reliquary Sculpture / Louis Perrois -- Ancestor Veneration In Central Africa / Elias K. Bongmba -- To Learned People This May Seem To Be Full Of Superstition : Reliquary Sculpture In The Medieval Christian Tradition / Barbara Boehm -- The Body Eternal : The Aesthetics Of Equatorial African Reliquary Sculpture / Alisa Lagamma -- Catalogue -- Central African Reliquaries / Alisa Lagamma -- Other Works -- Bibliography -- Index -- Photograph Credits. Edited By Alisa Lagamma ; With Contributions By Barbara Boehm ... [et Al.]. Catalog Of An Exhibition At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York, Oct. 2, 2007-mar. 2, 2008. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 327-342) And Index.