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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.

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