Daniel P. Biebuyck

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Daniel P. Biebuyck

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#1845

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#2641

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#217

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#281

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Daniel P. Biebuyck's Degrees

PhD Art History University of California, Berkeley
Masters Art History University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Art History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Daniel P. Biebuyck was a Belgian scholar of Central African art. Biography Biebuyck was born in 1925 in Deinze, Belgium. He studied classical philology, law, cultural anthropology, and African art at the State University of Ghent, where he obtained his doctorate in Philosophy and Letters . He conducted post-graduate study in social anthropology and Bantu Linguistics at University College London, LSE, SOAS. Under the auspices of the Institut pour la Recherche Scientifique en Afrique central , he was involved in field research from 1949–1957 among ethnic groups in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. From 1957–1961 he taught at Lovanium University in Kinshasa and as a member of the land tenure commission for the Belgian Congo, he conducted brief field research among over 40 different populations where he studied questions pertaining to the relationships between sociopolitical structures, administrative interferences, and land tenure.

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Daniel P. Biebuyck's Published Works

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African Agrarian Systems (2018) (83)
Tradition and Creativity in Tribal Art (1975) (53)
The United Nations Operation in the Congo 1960-1964 (1979) (51)
Lega culture; art, initiation, and moral philosophy among a Central African people (1975) (35)
The Mwindo epic from the Banyanga (Congo Republic) (1970) (20)
The African Heroic Epic (1976) (20)
Hero and Chief: Epic Literature from the Banyanga (Zaire Republic) (1980) (19)
The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga (1970) (13)
King Leopold's Legacy: The Congo Under Belgian Rule 1908-1960. (1966) (9)
The Master of Mary of Burgundy (1971) (8)
The Arts of Zaire (1988) (7)
Textual and Contextual Analysis in African Art Studies (1975) (7)
African Art Studies Since 1957: Achievements and Directions (1983) (6)
African Ethnonyms: Index to Art-Producing Peoples of Africa (1996) (5)
Mumbira: Musical Instrument of a Nyanga Initiation (1974) (5)
Nyanga Circumcision Masks and Costumes (1973) (5)
Symbolism of the Lega stool . An ethnoscientific approach to Akan arts and aesthetics (1977) (5)
On the concept of tribe (1966) (4)
Anthologie de la littérature orale nyanga (1970) (4)
Lega Culture - Art, Initiation, and Moral Philosophy among a Central African People (1975) (4)
The Mwindo Epic (1971) (3)
The power of headdresses : a cross-cultural study of forms and functions (1986) (3)
Sculpture from the Eastern Zaire Forest Regions: Metoko, Lengola, and Komo (2009) (2)
Function of a Lega mask (1954) (2)
African Agrarian Systems: Studies Presented and Discussed at the Second International African Seminar, Lovanium University, Leopoldville 1960. (1966) (2)
Sculpture from the Eastern Zaïre Forest Regions: Mbole, Yela, and Pere (1976) (2)
Nyanga cosmology and space categories (1976) (1)
African agrarian systems : studies presented and discussed at the Second International African Seminar, Lovanium University, Leopoldville, January, 1960 (1964) (1)
Hero and Chief: Epic Literature from among the Banyanga (Zaire Republic) (1981) (1)
Statuary from the Pre-Bembe Hunters: Issues in the Interpretation of Ancestral Figurines Ascribed to the Basikasingo-Bembe-Boyo (1984) (1)
Rights in land and its resources among the Nyanga (Republic Congo-Léopoldville) (1966) (1)
The Arts of Zaire. Vol. I, Southwestern Zaire (1985) (1)
Congo : tribes & parties (1961) (1)
Sculpture from the Eastern Zaïre Forest Regions (1976) (1)
Lega Dress as Cultural Artifact (1982) (1)
« The words of the Land », teaching through proverbs (1999) (0)
Symbolism of the Lega Stool@@@An Ethnographic Approach to Akan Arts and Aesthetics (1978) (0)
A Survey of Zairian Art: The Bronson Collection by Joseph Cornet (2009) (0)
Eastern Zaire : the ritual and artistic context of voluntary associations (1986) (0)
Sculptures do not speak. The Balega made them speak. Art, Text, and Context (2010) (0)
The Arts of Central Africa, an Annotated Bibliography (1987) (0)
English Summary (2018) (0)
The Power of Headdresses: A Cross-Cultural Study of Forms and Functions (1986) (0)
The Arts of Zaire. Volume II: Eastern Zaire. The Ritual and Artistic Content of Voluntary Associations (1987) (0)
Sculpture from the Eastern Zaïre Forest Regions@@@Sculpture from the Eastern Zaire Forest Regions (1976) (0)
The Arts of Zaire, Volume II, Eastern Zaire (1987) (0)
Bembe Treatment of Pollution During Pregnancy (1952) (0)
Wow-Ipits: Eight Woodcarvers of New Guinea (1972) (0)
The Arts of Zaïre, II, Eastern Zaïre (1988) (0)
Art from Zaíre: 100 Masterworks from the National Collection (1976) (0)
General and Theoretical: La Voie des Masques. Claude Lévi‐Strauss (1977) (0)
General, Applied, and Theoretical: Primitive Art and Society. Anthony Forge, ed (1976) (0)
Masks and Statues: The Precious Treasure of Black Africa. Scenario, camera and direction by ALFRED EHRHARDT (1974) (0)
Wayward Servants: The Two Worlds of the African Pygmies. Colin M. Turnbull (1967) (0)
The Children of Woot. A History of the Kuba Peoples . By Jan Vansina. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 394, maps, appendixes, notes, reference list, glossary, index. £17.50. (1980) (0)
West African Sculpture. RENE BRAVMANN (1971) (0)
Mwindo, a Nyanga epic hero, and Mubila, a Lega epic hero: a comparison (1992) (0)
Lega Ethics and Beauty in the Heart of Africa (2002) (0)

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