Ancestors, Goddesses, and Heroes

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Protecting, healing, or punishingpeople of various eras and origins have attributed such powers to the sculptures that are being presented together here for the first time: be it the sculpture of the Mangaaka from what is today the Republic of Congo, the protective goddess Mahamayuri from China, or the Maria on the globe from Southern Germany. Forty-five objects created between the fourth and the nineteenth century from two museums in Berlin provide a vivid testimony to the ever-present need for protection and orientation when dealing with individual or social crises. They represent the existence of an invisible world of gods, spirits, or ancestors, and create a connection between this world and a "different reality." As a result of how they are presented in museums, their context of use is, however, often losta situation that is reflected on by the authors of this book. Look inside

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With essays by Bernadette Bröskamp, Julien Chapuis, Cäcilia Fluck, Hans-Ulrich Kessler, Nathalie Küchen, Barbara Lenz, Tanja-Bianca Schmidt, Andrew Sears et al.

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