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Author Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield.

Title African art and the colonial encounter : inventing a global commodity / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir.

Imprint Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.89633 K151a 2007    ---  Available
Description xviii, 381 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series African expressive cultures
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-364) and index.
Contents Introduction: colonial power and aesthetic practice -- Part 1. Warriors. Maa warriorhood and British colonial discourse. -- 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, commodities, and complex representations -- Coda: from spears to guns in the North Rift.
Subject Samburu (African people) -- Material culture.
Idoma (African people) -- Material culture.
Art, African -- Western influences.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa.
Spears -- Kenya.
Colonies in art.
Exoticism in art.
Art and globalization.
ISBN 0253219221 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780253348920 (cloth : alk. paper)
0253348927 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253219220 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard No. NLGGC 305503782
AU@ 000041290829
NZ1 11257918
IG# 9780253219220

 
    
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