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Biebuyck, Daniel Prosper was born on October 1, 1925 in Deinze, Belgium. Son of Marcel G. and Bertha (Van Laere) Biebuyck. came to the United States, 1961.
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OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC BOOK OF 1997. -- CHOICE MagazineBiebuyck, Kelliher, and McRae have rendered the African studies research communtiy a valuable service by compiling this work, which will immediately become a standard reference resource. Upper-division undergraduates and higher. -- CHOICE, June 1997This outstanding reference, intelligently conceived and carefully and laboriously constructed, will be an essential work for Africanist scholars of all disciplines. -- ARBA, 1997This easy-to-use reference provides scholars with the most current and comprehensive source for the names of specific African ethnic groups. African Ethnonyms is a comprehensive index of more than 2,500 names of ethnic groups taken from numerous sources, including linguistic and ethnographic surveys of Africa, as well as from more than one hundred major books and catalogs of African art. Its emphasis is on the art of sub-Saharan Africa, with the term art interpreted broadly to include ornamental design, architecture, textiles, and body adornment, in addition to the more traditional arts of masks and sculpture.Daniel Biebuyck, noted researcher in African cultures, introduces researchers to the wealth and variety of these groups and the proliferation of terms which have been applied to them over the centuries. In addition to compiling alternate names and orthographies for various countries, cultures, and political and ritual entities, the Index provides AAT and LCSH preferred terms, cites references and further sources of information for each main entry, and serves as a bibliography to current literature on African art.Names are arranged alphabetically in dictionary format. Modeled after the Union List of Artist Names, entries cluster alternate spellings and variant name forms under a single name. Entries also list the countries where groups are located and the language name. A secondary index lists ethnic groups by country and provides notes on historical colonial occupation, language notes, and an extensive bibliography. African Ethnonyms' thoroughness of coverage makes a unique resource for librarians, museum scholars, and researchers in the fields of art history, anthropology, linguistics, and African studies.G.K. Hall & Co.1996 6 x 9 325 pages
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Stools in Africa are rarely considered in a unified matter with comparative analyses. This work finds beyond being a practical device for sitting, they can also exhibit interesting formal diversity and have connections with patterns of etiquette, social status, and prestige. Certain types of stools have a wide geographical distribution while others are more limited. Various prescriptions and proscriptions are encountered in some areas and among some peoples, such as among the Nyanga of Eastern Zaire. There the object is essentially a support for men to sit on, unless at the end of the mourning rites for a deceased husband or sun, when women do sit on such a stool to have their hair shaved. One must not remove splinters from some else's stool because this is considered an act of sorcery. Many other protocols and rituals are noted. The second contribution concerns an ethnoscientific approach to Akan arts and aesthetics. The Akan people are an ethnic group in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. The beliefs and practices of these people toward their art objects is investigated, using their vocabularies for these objects as well as the common core of knowledge of the art and aesthetics of these people as a whole.
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Biebuyck, Daniel Prosper was born on October 1, 1925 in Deinze, Belgium. Son of Marcel G. and Bertha (Van Laere) Biebuyck. came to the United States, 1961.
License Classics, Ghent University, 1948. Doctorate Philosophy and Letters, Ghent University, 1954. Postgraduate anthropology, London University, 1949.
Research fellow Institute pour la Recherche Science en Afrique Centrale, 1949 57. Professor anthropology Lovanium University, Kinshasa, Zaire, 1957-1961. Government anthropologist, 1958-1960.
H. Rodney Sharp professor anthropology University Delaware, 1961-1964. Professor anthropology University of California at Los Angeles, 1964-1966. H. Rodney Sharp professor anthropology and humanities University Delaware, 1966-1989, H. Rodney Sharp emeritus professor anthropology and humanities, since 1989.
Curator African ethnology University of California at Los Angeles, 1964-1966. Visiting lecturer Liège University, 1956, 57, Yale University, 1968-1969, 76, 77. Visiting professor London University, 1960-1961, Yale University, 1969-1970.
Adjunct professor New York University, 1971-1972.
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Fellow International Society Folk-Narrative Research, Belgian Academy Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer.
Married Laure-Marie de Rycke, November 21, 1950. Children: Brunhilde, Anne-Marie, Edwin, Hans, Jean-Christophe, Jean-Marie, Beatrice.