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June 01 2009
Guro Masked Performers: Sculpted Bodies Serving Spirits and People
Allen F. Roberts
Allen F. Roberts
Anne-Marie Bouttiaux is head of works and chief curator of the Ethnography Division of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium. An anthropologist and art historian, she has conducted field research in West Africa, notably in Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal. anne-marie.bouttiaux@africamuseum.be
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Anne-Marie Bouttiaux
Allen F. Roberts
Anne-Marie Bouttiaux is head of works and chief curator of the Ethnography Division of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium. An anthropologist and art historian, she has conducted field research in West Africa, notably in Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal. anne-marie.bouttiaux@africamuseum.be
Online Issn: 1937-2108
Print Issn: 0001-9933
© 2009 by the Regents of the University of California.
2009
African Arts (2009) 42 (2): 56–67.
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Anne-Marie Bouttiaux, Allen F. Roberts; Guro Masked Performers: Sculpted Bodies Serving Spirits and People. African Arts 2009; 42 (2): 56–67. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar.2009.42.2.56
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