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December 01 2011
Dance, Image, Myth, and Conversion in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1500–1800
Cécile Fromont
Cécile Fromont
Cécile Fromont is an assistant professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in the history of art and architecture of Africa and Colonial Latin America at Harvard University and was a postdoctoral scholar at the Michigan Society of Fellows. She is currently working on a book exploring the art of conversion in the early modern Kingdom of Kongo. fromont@uchicago.edu
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Cécile Fromont
Cécile Fromont is an assistant professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in the history of art and architecture of Africa and Colonial Latin America at Harvard University and was a postdoctoral scholar at the Michigan Society of Fellows. She is currently working on a book exploring the art of conversion in the early modern Kingdom of Kongo. fromont@uchicago.edu
Online Issn: 1937-2108
Print Issn: 0001-9933
© 2011 by the Regents of the University of California.
2011
African Arts (2011) 44 (4): 52–63.
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Cécile Fromont; Dance, Image, Myth, and Conversion in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1500–1800. African Arts 2011; 44 (4): 52–63. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar.2011.44.4.52
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