African Art and the Colonial Encounter Inventing a Global Commodity

Name: African Art and the Colonial Encounter Inventing a Global Commodity
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ISBN: 9780253219220

ISBN-10: 0253219221

ISBN-13: 9780253219220

Edition: 2007

Authors: Sidney Littlefield Kasfir, Sidney L. Kasfir

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Explores African art and artistic production in a volatile global marketplace

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 10/24/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.540

Jo Baim is Assistant Organist at historic Trinity Parish Episcopal Church in Seattle and a freelance choreographer. She is an oblate of the Benedictine Monastery of St. Gertrude in Cottonwood, Idaho. She lives in Seattle, Washington.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Colonial Power and Aesthetic Practice



Warriors



Maa Warriorhood and British Colonial Discourse



Idoma Warriorhood and the Pax Britannica



Sculptors and Smiths



Colonial Rupture and Innovation: The Colonizer as Inadvertent Patron



Samburu Smiths, Idoma Maskmakers: Power at a Distance



Masks, Spears, the Body



Mask and Spear: Art, Thing, Commodity



Warrior Theatre and the Ritualized Body



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, Commodities, and Complex Representations


Coda: From Spears to Guns in the North Rift


Notes


Bibliography


Index