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African Material Culture
Author | : Mary Jo Arnoldi,Kris L. Hardin |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1996-04-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253116635 |
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"This volume has much to recommend it -- providing fascinating and stimulating insights into many arenas of material culture, many of which still remain only superficially explored in the archaeological literature." -- Archaeological Review "... a vivid introduction to the topic.... A glimpse into the unique and changing identities in an ever-changing world." -- Come-All-Ye Fourteen interdisciplinary essays open new perspectives for understanding African societies and cultures through the contextualized study of objects, treating everything from the production of material objects to the meaning of sticks, masquerades, household tools, clothing, and the television set in the contemporary repertoire of African material culture.
Precolonial African Material Culture
Author | : V. Tarikhu Farrar |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2020-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781793606433 |
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The idea of an inherent backwardness of technology and material culture in early sub-Saharan Africa is a persistent and tenacious myth in the scholarly and popular imagination. Due to the emergence of the field of African studies and the upsurge in historical and archaeological research, in recent decades the stridency of this myth has weakened, and the overtly racist content of arguments mustered in its defense have tended to disappear. But more important are transformations in social, political, and cultural consciousness, which have worked to reshape conceptualizations of African peoples, their histories, and their cultures. Precolonial African Material Culture offers a thorough challenge to the myth of technological backwardness. V. Tarikhu Farrar revisits the early technology of sub-Saharan Africa as revealed by recent research and reconsiders long-possessed primary historical sources. He then explores the ways that indigenous African technologies have influenced the world beyond the African continent.
Reinventing Africa
Author | : Annie E. Coombes |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0300068905 |
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Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and displayed. Annie Coombes argues that this activity had profound repercussions for the construction of a national identity within Britain itself--the effects of which are still with us today. Through a series of detailed case studies, Coombes analyzes the popular and scientific knowledge of Africa which shaped a diverse public's perception of that continent: the looting and display of the Benin "bronzes" from Nigeria; ethnographic museums; the mass spectacle of large-scale international and missionary exhibitions and colonial exhibitions such as the "Stanley and African" of 1890; together with the critical reaction to such events in British national newspapers, the radical and humanitarian press and the West African press. Coombes argues that although endlessly reiterated racial stereotypes were disseminated through popular images of all things "African," this was no simple reproduction of imperial ideology. There were a number of different and sometimes conflicting representations of Africa and of what it was to be African--representations that varied according to political, institutional, and disciplinary pressures. The professionalization of anthropology over this period played a crucial role in the popularization of contradictory ideas about African culture to a mass public. Pioneering in its research, this book offers valuable insights for art and design historians, historians of imperialism and anthropology, anthropologists, and museologists.
African Material Culture
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:122266077 |
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The Luo Culture
Author | : Andrev B. C. Ocholla-Ayayo |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Industries, Primitive |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4420691 |
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African Print Cultures
Author | : African Print Cultures Network. Meeting |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2016-09-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780472053179 |
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Broad-ranging essays on the social, political, and cultural significance of more than a century's worth of newspaper publishing practices across the African continent
Proceedings of the May 1988 Conference and Workshop on African Material Culture
Author | : Mary Jo Arnoldi,Christraud M. Geary,Kris L. Hardin |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : IND:30000004297739 |
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A Material Culture
Author | : Stephanie Wynne-Jones |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198759317 |
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This book explores the importance of objects in Swahili society. The archaeology of the east coast of Africa has provided a wealth of information on the complex ways that objects were bound up with social identities, power negotiations, and concepts of wealth, and how these have changed over time.