Author: Gerbrands, A. A. (Adrianus Alexander)
Title: Art as an Element of Culture, Especially in Negro-Africa
Description: Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1957. orig. wrappers. 25x17cm, vii,158,(16)pp, Series: Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, no 12.. 16pp photoplates.. Rubbed. Some pencilled underlinings. Good. ¶ Translation by G.E. van Barren-Pape. Contents: The Problem of the Right Name; Some Main Aspects of the History of the Study of Non-European Art; Art as an Element of Culture in Africa; The Function of Art in Society as a Cultural-Anthropological Problem.

Keywords: African Ethnology, Art History, Africa, Anthropology, Ethnography, Social Theory, , ,