ISBN:
0585027846
,
9780585027845
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 369 pages)
,
illustrations, maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
African systems of thought
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als African material culture
DDC:
306.096
Keywords:
Material culture Africa
;
Art objects, African
;
Philosophy, African
;
Material culture
;
Art objects, African
;
Manners and customs
;
Material culture
;
Philosophy, African
;
Ethnic & Race Studies
;
Gender & Ethnic Studies
;
Social Sciences
;
Africa
;
1988
;
material culture
;
conference papers (form)
;
Kunstwerk
;
Philosophie
;
Sachkultur
;
Materiële cultuur
;
73.20 technological conditions of existence: general (ethnology)
;
Culture matérielle ; Afrique noire
;
Objets d'art africains
;
culture matérielle ; Afrique ; congrès
;
73.20 technological conditions of existence: general (ethnology)
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Africa Social life and customs
;
Africa
;
Africa Social life and customs
;
Afrika
;
Afrique noire ; Moeurs et coutumes
;
Africa
;
Bellagio 〈1988〉
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift 1988
Abstract:
pt. 1. Technological style and the making of culture -- Magical iron technology in the Cameroon Grassfields -- When nomads settle -- Ceramics from the Upemba Depression -- Objects and people -- pt. 2. Sticks, self, and society in Booran Oromo -- Material narratives and the negotiation of identities through objects in Malian theatre -- The consumption of an African modernity -- Household objects and the philosophy of Igbo social space -- Hoes and clothes in a Luo household -- pt. 3. The passive object and the tribal paradigm -- Art, politics and the transformation of meaning -- Mami Wata shrines -- Zaïrian popular painting as commodity and as communication.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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