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- catalog abstract "In a steamy colonial city, an eccentric Frenchman offers for sale an extraordinary collection of primitive art. The two anthropologists called in to appraise the pieces for the national museum quickly find themselves in a murky world where the boundaries of authenticity and deception blur in the tropical heat. What begins as an intellectual puzzle threatens to turn into a deadly confrontation. As the game of cat-and-mouse unfolds, the trail leads from the fashionable living rooms of French expatriates to the thatched huts of the Amazonian rainforest, from a Princeton seminar room to a cluttered warehouse not far from Devil's Island, from a chic Parisian cafe to the cobbled streets of northeastern Brazil. Are the objects in the collection worldclass masterpieces of primitive art? Or do they reflect the agile hand and twisted mind of a brilliant forger? Or might the ultimate enigma be of an entirely different nature? Under the equatorial sun, the anthropologists' obsessive pursuit of Truth gradually undermines their academic certainties about art and culture - and, ultimately, their vision of reality itself.".
- catalog contributor b8157309.
- catalog contributor b8157310.
- catalog coverage "South America Fiction.".
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "As the game of cat-and-mouse unfolds, the trail leads from the fashionable living rooms of French expatriates to the thatched huts of the Amazonian rainforest, from a Princeton seminar room to a cluttered warehouse not far from Devil's Island, from a chic Parisian cafe to the cobbled streets of northeastern Brazil. Are the objects in the collection worldclass masterpieces of primitive art? Or do they reflect the agile hand and twisted mind of a brilliant forger? Or might the ultimate enigma be of an entirely different nature? Under the equatorial sun, the anthropologists' obsessive pursuit of Truth gradually undermines their academic certainties about art and culture - and, ultimately, their vision of reality itself.".
- catalog description "In a steamy colonial city, an eccentric Frenchman offers for sale an extraordinary collection of primitive art. The two anthropologists called in to appraise the pieces for the national museum quickly find themselves in a murky world where the boundaries of authenticity and deception blur in the tropical heat. What begins as an intellectual puzzle threatens to turn into a deadly confrontation.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-161).".
- catalog extent "164 p. :".
- catalog identifier "067425726X".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog spatial "South America Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "South America".
- catalog subject "813/.54 20".
- catalog subject "Anthropological museums and collections South America Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Anthropologists Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Anthropologists South America Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Blacks Antiquities Collection and preservation South America Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Blacks South America Antiquities Collection and preservation Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3566.R543 E55 1995".
- catalog title "Enigma variations / Richard Price and Sally Price.".
- catalog type "Detective and mystery stories. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".