Hein Vanhee

Biographic Data

ID5455619
NAMEHein Vanhee
GIVEN NAMESHein
FAMILY NAMEVanhee
SIGNATUREVANHEE H
AFFILIATIONSHein Vanhee is a museum curator and historian at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA Tervuren, Belgium, ). He is also affiliated with the KongoKing research group at Ghent University ().
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS18
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Jos van Beurden, Ongemakkelijk erfgoed. Koloniale collecties en teruggave in de Lage Landen

    Open AccessHein VanheeARTICLEBMGN - Low Countries Historical…2023

  • On Shared Heritage and Its (False) Promises

    Hein VanheeARTICLEAfrican Arts2016Cited by: 3References: 7

  • Kongo across the Waters

    Susan Cooksey, Robin Poynor et al.ARTICLEAfrican Arts2013Cited by: 15References: 3

    December 01 2013 Kongo across the Waters Susan Cooksey, Susan Cooksey Susan Cooksey is the Curator of African Art at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida. She has curated a number of original exhibitions on African, Oceanic, and ancient American art. Her recent publications include: Africa Interweave: Textile Diasporas, Harn Museum of Art (2011) and “Double Images in Win Divination and the Negotiation of Spirit-Human Identities…

  • Central African Popular Christianity and the Making of Haitian Vodou Religion

    Open AccessHein VanheeCHAPTERCentral Africans and Cultural…2001

    Quant aux nègres de Congo et d'Angolle, il n'y a qu'à parler aux missionnaires qu'on envoie chez eux pour savoir quelles peines ils ont pour y conserver quelque ombre de la religion chrétienne, car ces nègres font sans scrupule ce que faisaient les Philistins, ils joignent l'Arche avec Dagon et ils conservent en secret toutes les superstitions de leur ancien culte idolâtre avec les cérémonies de la religion chrétienne. Jean-Baptiste Labat Among g…

  • Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora

    Open AccessJan Vansina, Joseph C Miller et al.BOOKCentral Africans and Cultural…2001

    This book, first published in 2001, sets out a paradigm that increases our understanding of African culture and the forces that led to its transformation during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and beyond, putting long over-due emphasis on the importance of Central African culture to the cultures of the United States, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Focusing on the Kongo/Angola culture zone, the book illustrates how African peoples re-shaped the…

  • Territoriale Culten in West-Congo

    Open AccessHein VanheeARTICLEAVRUG-bulletin/Afrika Focus1998

    Territorial Cults in West-Congo: Vanished or Transformed? This paper discusses some of the key issues in my current research on the history of the relationship between society, tradition and Christianity in the west of Congo-Kinshasa over the last century. My focus here is on the process of progressive transformation of the nineteenth-century territorial cults and the structural continuity which is apparent in the development of the Congolese Chr…

  • Territorial Cults in West-Congo

    Open AccessHein VanheeARTICLEAVRUG-bulletin/Afrika Focus1998

    This paper discusses some of the key issues in my current research on the history of the relationship between society, tradition and Christianity in the west of Congo-Kinshasa over the last century. My focus here is on the process of progressive transformation of the nineteenth-century territorial cults and the structural continuity which is apparent in the development of the Congolese Christian church in the area. In presenting some of my workin…