ISBN:
9780520927292
,
052092729X
,
141752264X
,
9781417522644
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xvi, 380 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Images and empires
DDC:
301/.096
Keywords:
Visual anthropology Africa
;
Visual sociology Africa
;
Postcolonialism Africa
;
Postcolonialism
;
Visual sociology
;
Visual anthropology
;
Visual anthropology
;
Visual sociology
;
Postcolonialism
;
Africa
;
images
;
visual arts
;
anthropology
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General
;
Colonization
;
Literature
;
Mass media
;
Postcolonialism
;
Visual anthropology
;
Visual sociology
;
Anthropologie
;
Ethnologie
;
Geschichte
;
Soziologie
;
Visualisierung
;
Beeldvorming
;
Afrika
;
Postkolonialisme
;
Ethnic & Race Studies
;
Gender & Ethnic Studies
;
Social Sciences
;
Art
;
Africa Colonization
;
Africa In art
;
Africa In literature
;
Africa In mass media
;
Africa Colonization
;
Africa In art
;
Africa In literature
;
Africa In mass media
;
Africa Colonization
;
Africa In art
;
Africa In literature
;
Africa In mass media
;
Afrika
;
Africa
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and culture. It assembles a wide-ranging collection of essays dealing with specific visual forms, including monuments cinema, cartoons, domestic and professional photography, body art, world fairs, and museum exhibits
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: An amazing distance: pictures and people in Africa / Paul S. Landau"Our mosquitoes are not so big": images and modernity in Zimbabwe / Timothy Burke -- The sleep of the brave: graves as sites and signs in the colonial eastern Cape / David Bunn -- Tintin and the interruptions of Congolese comics / Nancy Rose Hunt -- Cartooning Nigerian anticolonial nationalism / Tejumola Olaniyan -- Empires of the visual: photography and colonial administration in Africa / Paul S. Landau -- Portraits of modernity: fashioning selves in Dakarois popular photography / Hudita Nura Mustafa -- Mami Wata and Santa Marta: Imag(in)ing selves and others in Africa and the Americas / Henry John Drewal -- "Captured on film": bushmen and the claptrap of performative primitives / Robert J. Gordon -- Decentering the gaze at French colonial exhibitions / Catherine Hodeir -- The politics of bushman representations / Pippas Skotnes -- Omada art at the crossroads of colonialisms / Paula Ben-Amos Girshick -- Bad copies: the colonial aesthetic and the Manjaco-Portuguese encounter / Eric Gable -- Conclusion: Signifying power in Africa / Deborah D. Kaspin.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-369) and index. - Description based on print version record
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520229488.001.0001
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