Foreign Cloth, Local Habits: Clothing, Regalia, and the Art of Conversion in the Early Modern Kingdom of Kongo

ABSTRACT From their king’s decision to embrace Catholicism at the turn of the sixteenth century to the advent of imperial colonialism in the late eighteen hundreds, the men and women of the central African kingdom of Kongo creatively mixed, merged, and redefined local and foreign visual forms, relig...

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Main Author: Cécile Fromont
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo, Museu Paulista
Series:Anais do Museu Paulista: História e Cultura Material
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-47142017000200011&lng=en&tlng=en