Christine Mullen Kreamer

Biographic Data

ID217062
NAMEChristine Mullen Kreamer
GIVEN NAMESChristine Mullen
FAMILY NAMEKreamer
SIGNATUREKREAMER C M
AFFILIATIONSDeputy Director and Chief Curator at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS168
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Simon Ottenberg

    Christine Mullen Kreamer, Herbert M ColeARTICLEAfrican Arts2025References: 1

    Simon Ottenberg, Emeritus Professor at the University of Washington, died in Seattle on November 1, 2023 at the age of 100. He was an anthropologist, sailing enthusiast, collector, book seller, avid puzzler, and longtime supporter of contemporary arts from West Africa and the Pacific Northwest—and a fine, much-loved person. Ottenberg is well known as a distinguished anthropologist, yet he should be equally celebrated as a superlative art and cult…

  • Crowning Achievements

    Mary Jo Arnoldi, Christine Mullen KreamerARTICLEAfrican Arts2022Cited by: 9

    Pour les Africians, le corps, et plus particulierement la tete, possede une force symbolique. La coiffe masculine et feminine traduit l'etat (social, psychique, etc.) de celui qui la porte. Certaines formes ont ete adaptees aux sensibilites et a l'esthetique locales. Divers materiaux, techniques et formes caracterisent ces coiffes qui allient l'esthetique et le pratique dans la vie quotidienne. Des chapeaux spectaculaires existent pour les occasi…

  • Restitution

    Christine Mullen KreamerARTICLEAfrican Arts2021Cited by: 2

    In her First Word, “African Restitution in a North American Context: A Debate, A Summary, and a Challenge” (African Arts 53 [4]: 10–15), Amanda M. Maples presents a well-researched and compelling argument for museums in North America to join together and develop a process of restitution regarding Africa's archaeological and colonial-era heritage. I would emphasize that this initiative must embrace a process of true partnership and inclusion that …

  • Curating African Cosmos/Stellar Arts

    Open AccessChristine Mullen KreamerARTICLEAnthropology News2019

  • Ivan Karp (1943–2011)

    Mary Jo Arnoldi, H Morphy et al.ARTICLEAfrican Arts2012

    June 01 2012 Ivan Karp (1943–2011) Mary Jo Arnoldi, Mary Jo Arnoldi Curator for Africa and chair of the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Howard Morphy, Howard Morphy Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research School of the Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University. [email protected]…

  • The Collection of the National Museum of African art Smithsonian Institution

    Open AccessBryna Freyer, Bryna M Freyer et al.ARTICLESculpture Review2010

  • Impermanent by Design

    Christine Mullen KreamerARTICLEAfrican Arts2010Cited by: 1References: 5

    March 01 2010 Impermanent by Design: The Ephemeral in Africa's Tradition-based Arts Christine Mullen Kreamer Christine Mullen Kreamer Acting Deputy Director/Chief Curator at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, where she has worked since 2000. Her exhibitions and publications explore art and ritual, gender, African systems of knowledge, and museum practice, and they bridge the disciplines of art history, anthropology, and …

  • Intersections

    Christine Mullen KreamerARTICLEAfrican Arts2008

  • Inscribing Meaning

    Christine Mullen Kreamer, Mary Nooter Roberts et al.ARTICLEAfrican Arts2007Cited by: 2References: 1

    September 01 2007 Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art Christine Mullen Kreamer, Christine Mullen Kreamer CHRISTINE MULLEN KREAMER is a curator at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Mary Nooter Roberts, Mary Nooter Roberts MARY (POLLY) NOOTER ROBERTS is deputy director and chief curator at the Fowl…

  • Shared Heritage, Contested Terrain

    Open AccessChristine Mullen KreamerCHAPTERMuseum Frictions2006

  • The Politics of Memory

    Christine Mullen KreamerARTICLEGhana Studies2004References: 4

    A plaque mounted at the doorway to the dungeon at Cape Coast Castle, Ghana, bears the inscription: > IN EVERLASTING MEMORY > > Of the anguish of our ancestors. > > May those who died rest in peace. > > May those who return find their roots. > > May humanity never again perpetuate > > Such

  • The Politics of Memory

    Christine Mullen KreamerARTICLEGhana Studies2004Cited by: 4References: 6

    Ghana Studies v.7 (2004) pp. 79-91. THE POLITICS OF MEMORY: GHANA'S CAPE COAST CASTLE MUSEUM EXHIBITION "CROSSROADS OF PEOPLE, CROSSROADS OF TRADE"1 Christine Mullen Kreamer National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution plaque mounted at the doorway to the dungeon at Cape Coast Castle, Ghana, bears the inscription: IN EVERLASTING MEMORY Of the anguish of our ancestors. May those who died rest in peace. May those who return find their ro…

  • Africa

    Marla C Berns, T J H Chappel et al.CHAPTER2003

  • A Tribute to Roy Sieber, Part 1

    Christine Mullen KreamerARTICLEAfrican Arts2003Cited by: 1

    Dans cette seconde partie d'un hommage consacre a l'historien de l'art Roy Sieber, l'A. considere l'amour que celui-ci portait aux objets et ses contributions en tant que connaisseur des arts africains fondes sur la tradition. Pendant pres d'un demi-siecle Sieber a utilise les expositions de musee pour explorer la potentialite des objets - leurs contextes et leur esthetique - pour comprendre les premisses et la logique des societes. Sieber a nota…

  • A Tribute to Roy Sieber, Part 2

    Christine Mullen KreamerARTICLEAfrican Arts2003Cited by: 1

  • Objects as Envoys

    Andrew Walsh, Christine Mullen Kreamer et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2003Cited by: 2

    Foreword by Zina Andrianarivelo-RazafyForeword by Shirley E.

  • Reflections on "African Voices" at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History

    Mary Jo Arnoldi, Christine Mullen Kreamer et al.ARTICLEAfrican Arts2001Cited by: 2

    Mary Jo Arnoldi, Christine Mullen Kreamer, Michael Atwood Mason, Reflections on "African Voices" at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, African Arts, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Summer, 2001), pp. 16-35+94

  • Body Art

    Christine Mullen KreamerARTICLEAfrican Arts2001

  • Hair in African Art and Culture

    Christine Mullen KreamerARTICLEAfrican Arts2001

  • Exhibition-Ism

    Christine Mullen Kreamer, Mary Nooter Roberts et al.ARTICLEAfrican Arts1996

  • Transformation and power in Moba (northern Togo) initiation rites

    Open AccessChristine Mullen KreamerARTICLEAfrica1995Cited by: 3References: 5

    Among the Moba of northern Togo, initiation into the voluntary and secret association of Kondi offers men and women a way of achieving a measure of social and ritual power. For the Moba, accepted notions about ancestral authority, specialist knowledge, and the spatial realm of the wilderness inform their concepts of power. One of the ways in which the achievement of power is conceptualised is through the transformation of the individual during th…

  • The Halls are Made of Marble, There's a Guard at Every Door

    Open AccessJo Blatti, Ivan Karp et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1993References: 2

    READERS WHO FOLLOW ISSUES IN MUSEUM PRACTICE WILL RECOGNIZE Exhibiting Cultures and its companion volume Museums and Communities as the most recent additions to a group of works published over the past decade that analyze form and substance in exhibits and interpretive programs. Earlier entries exploring broadly historical applications include the edited collections Presenting the Past, Past Meets Present, History Museums in the United States, as…

  • Museums and Communities

    Michael G Bennett, Ivan Karp et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1993

  • Museums and communities

    Christine Mullen Kreamer, Ivan Karp et al.BOOKMuseums and communities1992Cited by: 138

  • Wild Spirits, Strong Medicine

    T O Beidelman, Patrick R Mcnaughton et al.ARTICLEAfrican Arts1990Cited by: 1