ISBN:
9780253022653
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XX, 388 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
African expressive cultures
Parallel Title:
Print version African Art and the Colonial Encounter : Inventing a Global Commodity
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield African art and the colonial encounter
DDC:
05.896/33
Keywords:
Colonies in art
;
Exoticism in art
;
Art and globalization
;
Samburu (African people) Material culture
;
Idoma (African people) Material culture
;
Art, African Western influences
;
Spears Kenya
;
Electronic books
;
Afrika
;
Idoma
;
Samburu
;
Sachkultur
;
Kunst
;
Kolonialismus
;
Geschichte
;
Great Britain Colonies
;
Africa
;
Electronic books
;
Sachkultur
;
Kunstproduktion
;
Kulturkontakt
;
Europa
;
Samburu
;
Sachkultur
;
Kunstproduktion
;
Kulturkontakt
;
Europa
;
Idoma
;
Kriegswaffe
;
Kunst
;
Globalisierung
;
Afrika
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; African Art and the Colonial Encounter; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Colonial Power and Aesthetic Practice; PART 1. Warriors ; 1. Maa Warriorhood and British Colonial Discourse; 2. Idoma Warriorhood and the Pax Britannica; PART 2. Sculptors and Smiths ; 3. Colonial Rupture and Innovation: The Colonizer as Inadvertent Patron
Description / Table of Contents:
4. Samburu Smiths, Idoma Maskmakers: Power at a DistancePART 3. Masks, Spears, the Body ; 5. Mask and Spear: Art, Thing, Commodity; 6. Warrior Theatre and the Ritualized Body; PART 4. Commodities ; 7. Idoma Sculpture: Colonialism and the Market for African Art; 8. Samburu Encounters with Modernity: Spears as Tourist Souvenirs; 9. Samburu Warriors in Hollywood Films: Cinematic Commodities
Description / Table of Contents:
REPRISE: The Three C's: Colonialism, Commodities, and Complex RepresentationsCODA: From Spears to Guns in the North Rift; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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