African Dream Machines
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African Dream Machines
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Author : Anitra Nettleton
language : en
Publisher: Wits University Press
Release Date : 2007-01-01
African Dream Machines written by Anitra Nettleton and has been published by Wits University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Social Science categories.
African headrests are treated as art objects in this historical study African Dream Machines takes African headrests out of the category of functional objects and into the more rarefied category of "art" objects. Styles in African headrests are usually defined in terms of Western art and archaeological discourses, but this book interrogates these definitions and demonstrates the shortcomings of defining a single formal style model as exclusive to a single ethnic group. This book has been in the making for fifteen years, starting with research on the traditional woodcarving of the Shona-and Venda-speaking peoples of Zimbabwe and South Africa. Among the artifacts made by South African peoples, headrests were the best known and during a year spent in Europe in 1975 and 1976, Anitra Nettleton discovered museum stores full of unacknowledged masterpieces made by speakers of numerous Southern African languages. A Council Fellowship from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1990 enabled the writer to develop an archive in the form of notes, photographs, and sketches of each and every headrest she encountered. Many examples from South African collections were added from the early 1990s onwards, expanding the field vastly. Nettelton executed drawings of each and every headrest encountered, and they became a major part of the project in their own right. African Dream Machines questions the assumed one-to-one relationship between formal styles and ethnic identities or classifications. Historical factors are used to demonstrate that "authenticity," in the form sought by collectors of antique African art, is largely a construct.
The African Dream
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Author : Brian Gardner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
The African Dream written by Brian Gardner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Africa categories.
The African Dream
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Author : Che Guevara
language : en
Publisher: Harvill Press
Release Date : 2000
The African Dream written by Che Guevara and has been published by Harvill Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Emesto "Che" Guevara was one of the greatest exemplars of the revolutionary 1960s, an essential player in the Cuban Revolution whose legend fired the imaginations of a whole generation. In 1965, amid worldwide conjecture, Guevara left Cuba, where he was a minister in Fidel Castro's post-revolutionary government, and traveled incognito to the heart of Africa. People's hero Patrice Lumumba had been assassinated, and Guevara was sent to put his theories of guerrilla warfare into use, helping the oppressed people of the Congo throw off the yoke of Western imperialism. The first task was to assist the young Laurent Kabila in his struggle against Mobutu and Tshombe, the two key figures in the newly independent nation.
Beadwork Art And The Body
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Author : Anitra C. E. Nettleton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Beadwork Art And The Body written by Anitra C. E. Nettleton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Beads in art categories.
This book accompanies an exhibition of the same name at Wits Art Museum 21st July to 28th September 2015.
African Dream
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Author : Suleman Chebe
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2011-08-01
African Dream written by Suleman Chebe and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-01 with Fiction categories.
A Ghanaian teacher in Glasgow attends a conference in Ethiopia where he stumbles across a vision for the future. Convinced that what he has witnessed could have dramatic consequences for Africa, he decides to leave everything behind in Scotland to carry the message to the people. On his journey he has to tackle and overcome a mountain of obstacles. This is a personal quest that examines the hopes and dreams of Africans from a diverse range of backgrounds: from street level to academic to political to religious, both practical and philosophical. Through the voices of the people, this unique take on the problems facing Africa forms an engaging, witty and thought-provoking narrative that aims to empower us all to take the future of Africa into our owns hands. The book gives a flavour of the joys and hardships faced everyday by a broad cross-section of the African community, both at home and abroad. Above all, a spirit of hope for the future and belief that Africa can transform herself permeates every page.
The African Dream
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Author : Pat Patterson
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-11-19
The African Dream written by Pat Patterson and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-19 with categories.
SECOND EDITION.....Better formatted, revised margins, more Photos and other changes!!! AFRICA on BICYCLES? You must be CRAZY! Cat and Pat Patterson say, "When you have a DREAM, something that is hovering at the top of your bucket list and you're in your senior years, you'd better get rollin'." So, roll they did, over 265 days they pedaled 4,918 miles through 17 countries in AFRICA! The Pattersons sold their flourishing business, their cars and house, opted for early Social Security benefits, left family and friends and pedaled away from home and into an incredible journey of adventure and enlightenment. Through their stories in The African Dream, you will find lessons learned and lessons taught, myths debunked and mysteries of the Dark Continent exposed. Are there natives dressed in loin cloths carrying spears or big game animals roaming the roads? Will Muslims in Islamic Kingdoms or Republics be friendly or threatening? You'll find the answers to these and other often asked questions on the pages of their book. It is true that great swatches of jungle, arid lands and the vast Sahara Desert remain as they have been for centuries. Life in small villages is very simple. Yet, you will also find modern cities of glass and steel skyscrapers. If you have an AFRICAN DREAM, a bucket list itch to travel to Africa, don't wait until it's too late! There are as many ways to visit and explore Africa as there are people and places usually seen only on the pages of the National Geographic magazine. You may agree, AFRICA on BICYCLES is CRAZY. However, whether you go by bike, boat, plane or train, the journey is bound to fulfill your bucket and allow you to check a great experience off your list and into your memories. And, best of all, the people of Africa. Through the Patterson's stories and 400 photos you will meet a cross section of the many different cultures, customs and personalities that make up the rainbow nations of Africa. The Pattersons hope that seeing AFRICA through their eyes, stories and photos will instill the confidence you need to live your AFRICAN DREAM!
Material Explorations In African Archaeology
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Author : Timothy Insoll
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2015-10-22
Material Explorations In African Archaeology written by Timothy Insoll and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-22 with Social Science categories.
How people engaged with materials such as clay or stone, why people dug features such as pits, why they decorated their bodies, or treated their dead in certain ways, were all meaningful in the African past. However, these are subjects that have been generally neglected by archaeologists working in Africa until recently. Material Explorations in African Archaeology examines materiality in African archaeology by exploring concepts of material agency and material engagement and entanglement in relation to their manifest presence in persons, animals, objects, substances, and contexts. It investigates the magnificent and complex world of past African materiality by considering a range of case studies. These include, for example, why standing stones were erected, the potential meanings of bodily alteration practices such as scarification and dental modification, and why, recurrently, Africans in the past gave ritual importance to objects, materials, and locations thought of as exotic or different. Adopting a multidisciplinary focus, the volume draws not only on archaeology but also, among other areas, ethnography and history, discussing themes such as bodies, landscape, healing and medicine, and divination, as well as concepts such as memory and biography, transformation, and metaphor and metonym.
Print Text And Book Cultures In South Africa
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Author : Andrew van der Vlies
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2012-09-01
Print Text And Book Cultures In South Africa written by Andrew van der Vlies and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An explanation of the unique role of the book and book collecting in South Africa due to the apartheid This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives- historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address a range of topics as varied as: the role of print cultures in contests over the nature of the colonial public sphere in the nineteenth century; orthography; iimbongi, orature and the canon; book- collecting and libraries; print and transnationalism; Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms; books in war; how the fates of South African texts, locally and globally, have been affected by their material instantiations; photocomics and other ephemera; censorship, during and after apartheid; books about art and books as art; local academic publishing; and the challenge of 'book history' for literary and cultural criticism in contemporary South Africa.
Speaking Of Objects
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Author : Constantine Petridis
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-11-10
Speaking Of Objects written by Constantine Petridis and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-10 with Art categories.
A lavishly illustrated selection of highlights from the Art Institute of Chicago’s extraordinary collection of the arts of Africa Featuring a selection of more than 75 works of traditional African art in the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection, this stunning volume includes objects in a wide variety of media from regions across the continent. Essays and catalogue entries by leading art historians and anthropologists attend closely to the meanings and materials of the works themselves in addition to fleshing out original contexts. These experts also underscore the ways in which provenance and collection history are important to understanding how we view such objects today. Celebrating the Art Institute’s collection of traditional African art as one of the oldest and most diverse in the United States, this is a fresh and engaging look at current research into the arts of Africa as well as the potential of future scholarship.
The African Dream
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Author : Grace Clifton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989*
The African Dream written by Grace Clifton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989* with Africa categories.