Publications
Books
The Art of the Lega. Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.
Isn't S/He a Doll? Play and Ritual in African Sculpture. Los
Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of
Cultural History
Reclusive Rebels: An Approach to the Sala Mpasu and their Neighbors. San Diego: San Diego Mesa College.
Contributions to Books
Five individual object entries in The Power of Form: African Art from the Horstmann Collection, pp. 178-183, 206-209. Milan: Skira
“Embodied Futures: The dolls of southwestern Angola." In Frank Hermann, ed., In the Presence of Spirits. pp. 145-152. New York: Museum for African Art
“Appeasing the lonely ancestors: si galegale funerary puppets in Sumatra.” in Heaven & Hell andother worlds of the dead. pp. 98-99. Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland Publishing Limited
“Part Three: Catalog” with Doran H. Ross. in Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, ed., Turn Up the Volume:A Celebration of African Music. pp. 236-337. Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
"Potential & Fulfilled Mothers: Initiations, Sculptures, and Masquerade in Kabompo District, Zambia." In Manuel Jordan, ed., Chokwe! Art and Initiation Among Chokwe and Related Peoples. pp. 77-84. New York: Prestel
"Sala Mpasu Mask." In Petrine Archer-Straw, ed., Africa: The Art of a Continent. p. 260. London: Royal Academy of Arts
"Lega Hats: Hierarchy and Status." In Mary Jo Arnoldi, ed., Crowning Achievements: African Arts of Dressing the Head, pp. 147-57. Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
"Kuba Palm Wine Cups." In Doran H. Ross, ed., Visions of Africa: The Jerome L. Joss Collection of African Art at UCLA, pp. 124-25. Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
"The Stampeding of Elephants: Elephant Imprints on Lega Thought." In Doran H. Ross, ed., Elephant: The Animal and its Ivory in African Culture, pp. 294-305. Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
"Senufo Art." In Zena Pearlstone, ed., Art as Technology: the Arts of Africa, Oceania, Native America, Southern California, pp. 101-104. Hillcrest Press: Beverly Hills. (invited)
"Ancestors and Living Men among the Batak." In Jerome Feldman, ed., The Eloquent Dead: Ancestral Sculpture of Indonesia and Southeast Asia, pp. 79-100. Los Angeles: Museum of Cultural History
"Ancestor Motifs of the Paiwan." In Jerome Feldman, ed., The Eloquent Dead: Ancestral Sculpture of Indonesia and Southeast Asia, pp. 161-70. Los Angeles: Museum of Cultural History
"Magamaog: Benevolent Ancestor of the Yami" (with Eugenia Sumnik-Dekovich).
In Jerome
Feldman, ed., The Eloquent Dead: Ancestral Sculpture of Indonesia
and Southeast Asia, pp. 171-74. Los Angeles: Museum of Cultural History
Articles
“More than the Human Figure: The Marc and Denyse Ginzberg Collection
of African Art.”
African Arts. 34, 2: 50-63, 96 (juried)
"Woman=Mask: Initiation Arts in North-Western Province, Zambia." African Arts 31, 2: 50-61. (juried)
“Men Portraying Women: Representations in African Masks.” African Arts 31, 2: 72-79. (juried)
"In Search of Children: Dolls and Agency in Africa." African Arts 30, 2:18-33. (juried)
"Sala Mpasu Masks." African Arts 22, 1:34-43. (juried)