African Material Culture

Name: African Material Culture
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ISBN: 9780253210371

ISBN-10: 0253210372

ISBN-13: 9780253210371

Edition: 1996

Authors: Mary Jo Arnoldi, Kris L. Hardin, Kris L. Hardin, Kris L. Hardin

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Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 4/22/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Efficacy and Objects




Technological Style and the Making of Culture: Three Kono Contexts of Production




Magical Iron Technology in the Cameroon Grassfields




When Nomads Settle: Changing Technologies of Building and Transport and the Production of Architectural Form among the Gabra, the Rendille, and the Somalis




Ceramics from the Upemba Depression: A Diachronic Study




Objects and People: Relationships and Transformations in the Culture of the Bambala




Sticks, Self, and Society in Booran Oromo: A Symbolic Interpretation




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: Changing Consumption in a Colonial Economy, 1906-1936




The Passive Object and the Tribal Paradigm: Colonial Museography in French West Africa




Art, Politics, and the Transformation of Meaning: Bamum Art in the Twentieth Century




Mami Wata Shrines: Exotica and the Construction of Self




Zairian Popular Painting as Commodity and as Communication



Contributors


Index