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The Evidence of Instruments
Author(s) -
Miller Thomas Ross
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 0193-5615
DOI - 10.1525/ahu.1992.17.2.49
Subject(s) - documentation , representation (politics) , musical , period (music) , visual arts , colonial period , natural (archaeology) , history , colonialism , natural history , art , art history , aesthetics , archaeology , computer science , political science , law , medicine , politics , programming language
Photographs and musical instruments collected by the American Museum of Natural History Congo Expedition between 1909 and 1915 reveal aspects of Mangbetu and Azande musical life in the early colonial period. They also raise questions of representation and intention. Archival documentation, when compared with modern sources, shows dynamic artistic change.