African Material Culture
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African Material Culture
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Author : Mary Jo Arnoldi
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1996-04-22
African Material Culture written by Mary Jo Arnoldi and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-04-22 with History categories.
"This volume has much to recommend it -- providing fascinating and stimulating insights into many arenas of material culture, many of which still remain only superficially explored in the archaeological literature." -- Archaeological Review "... a vivid introduction to the topic.... A glimpse into the unique and changing identities in an ever-changing world." -- Come-All-Ye Fourteen interdisciplinary essays open new perspectives for understanding African societies and cultures through the contextualized study of objects, treating everything from the production of material objects to the meaning of sticks, masquerades, household tools, clothing, and the television set in the contemporary repertoire of African material culture.
Precolonial African Material Culture
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Author : V. Tarikhu Farrar
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-01-20
Precolonial African Material Culture written by V. Tarikhu Farrar and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-20 with History categories.
The idea of an inherent backwardness of technology and material culture in early sub-Saharan Africa is a persistent and tenacious myth in the scholarly and popular imagination. Due to the emergence of the field of African studies and the upsurge in historical and archaeological research, in recent decades the stridency of this myth has weakened, and the overtly racist content of arguments mustered in its defense have tended to disappear. But more important are transformations in social, political, and cultural consciousness, which have worked to reshape conceptualizations of African peoples, their histories, and their cultures. Precolonial African Material Culture offers a thorough challenge to the myth of technological backwardness. V. Tarikhu Farrar revisits the early technology of sub-Saharan Africa as revealed by recent research and reconsiders long-possessed primary historical sources. He then explores the ways that indigenous African technologies have influenced the world beyond the African continent.
Reinventing Africa
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Author : Annie E. Coombes
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1994-01-01
Reinventing Africa written by Annie E. Coombes 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 1994-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and displayed. Annie Coombes argues that this activity had profound repercussions for the construction of a national identity within Britain itself--the effects of which are still with us today. Through a series of detailed case studies, Coombes analyzes the popular and scientific knowledge of Africa which shaped a diverse public's perception of that continent: the looting and display of the Benin "bronzes" from Nigeria; ethnographic museums; the mass spectacle of large-scale international and missionary exhibitions and colonial exhibitions such as the "Stanley and African" of 1890; together with the critical reaction to such events in British national newspapers, the radical and humanitarian press and the West African press. Coombes argues that although endlessly reiterated racial stereotypes were disseminated through popular images of all things "African," this was no simple reproduction of imperial ideology. There were a number of different and sometimes conflicting representations of Africa and of what it was to be African--representations that varied according to political, institutional, and disciplinary pressures. The professionalization of anthropology over this period played a crucial role in the popularization of contradictory ideas about African culture to a mass public. Pioneering in its research, this book offers valuable insights for art and design historians, historians of imperialism and anthropology, anthropologists, and museologists.
African Material Culture
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
African Material Culture written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with categories.
Proceedings Of The May 1988 Conference And Workshop On African Material Culture
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Author : Mary Jo Arnoldi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Proceedings Of The May 1988 Conference And Workshop On African Material Culture written by Mary Jo Arnoldi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Africa categories.
The Luo Culture
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Author : Andrev B. C. Ocholla-Ayayo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
The Luo Culture written by Andrev B. C. Ocholla-Ayayo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Social Science categories.
Material Culture Of Kenya
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Author : Sultan Somjee
language : en
Publisher: East African Publishers
Release Date : 1993
Material Culture Of Kenya written by Sultan Somjee and has been published by East African Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Social Science categories.
A Material Culture
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Author : Stephanie Wynne-Jones
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
A Material Culture written by Stephanie Wynne-Jones and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
This book explores the importance of objects in Swahili society. The archaeology of the east coast of Africa has provided a wealth of information on the complex ways that objects were bound up with social identities, power negotiations, and concepts of wealth, and how these have changed over time.
A New Generation Of African Writers
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Author : Brenda Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2013
A New Generation Of African Writers written by Brenda Cooper and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Literary Collections categories.
Brenda Cooper examines the work of the new generation of African writers who have placed migration as central to their writing
The Material Culture Of Zimbabwe
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Author : H. Ellert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Material Culture Of Zimbabwe written by H. Ellert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Social Science categories.