| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 381 pages) : illustrations |
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African expressive cultures |
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African expressive cultures.
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| Contents |
Introduction: colonial power and aesthetic practice -- Part 1. Warriors. Maa warriorhood and British colonial discource. -- Idoma warriorhood and the Pax Britannica -- Part 2. Sculptors and smiths. Colonial rupture and innovation: the colonizer as inadvertent patron -- Samburu smiths, Idoma maskmakers: power at a distance -- Part 3. Masks, spears, the body. Mask and spear: art, thing, commodity -- Warrior theatre and the ritualized body -- Part 4. Commodities. Idoma sculpture: colonialism and the market for African art -- Samburu encounters with modernity: spears as tourist souvenirs -- Samburu warriors in Hollywood films: cinematic commodities -- Reprise: the three C's: colonialism, commidities, and complex representations -- Coda: from spears to guns in the North Rift |
| Summary |
Focusing on the theme of warriorhood, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir weaves a complex history of how colonial influence forever changed artistic practice, objects, and their meaning. Looking at two widely diverse cultures, the Idoma in Nigeria and the Samburu in Kenya, Kasfir makes a bold statement about the links between colonialism, the Europeans' image of Africans, Africans' changing self representation, and the impact of global trade on cultural artifacts and the making of art. This intriguing history of the interaction between peoples, aesthetics, morals, artistic objects and practices, and the global trade in African art challenges current ideas about artistic production and representation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-364) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Samburu (African people) -- Material culture
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Idoma (African people) -- Material culture
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Art, African -- Western influences.
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Spears -- Kenya
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Colonies in art.
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Exoticism in art.
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Art and globalization.
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Africa.
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Kenya.
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Nigeria.
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Samburu.
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Idoma.
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warriors.
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masks.
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traditional weapons.
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colonialism.
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visual arts.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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ART -- African.
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Art, African -- Western influences.
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Art and globalization.
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British colonies.
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Colonies in art.
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Exoticism in art.
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Spears.
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Kunst
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Kunsthandel
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Kulturkontakt
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Speer
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Kunst.
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Kolonialisme.
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Kunsthandel.
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa.
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Africa.
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Kenya.
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Afrika
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Afrika.
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Samburu.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007007408 |
| ISBN |
9780253022653 |
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0253022657 |
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