African material culture / edited by Mary Jo Arnoldi, Christraud M. Geary & Kris L. Hardin.
Contributor(s): Arnoldi, Mary Jo
| Geary, Christraud M | Hardin, Kris L
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TextSeries: African systems of thought: Publisher: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 1996Description: xii, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0253210372 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0253330009 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Material culture -- Africa | Art objects, African | Philosophy, African | Africa -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 306/.096 LOC classification: GN645 | .A364 1996Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Efficacy and objects / Kris L. Hardin and Mary Jo Arnoldi -- Technological style and the making of culture: three Kono contexts of production / Kris L. Hardin -- Magical iron technology in the Cameroon grassfields / Michael Rowlands and Jean-Pierre Warnier -- When nomads settle: changing technologies of building and transport and the production of architectural form among the Gabra, the Rendille, and the Somalis / Labelle Prussin -- Ceramics from the Upemba depression: a diachronic study / Kanimba Misago -- Objects and people: relationships and transformations in the culture of the Bambala / Kazadi Ntole -- Sticks, self, and society in Booran Oromo: a symbolic interpretation / Aneesa Kassam and Gemetchu Megerssa -- Material narratives and the negotiation of identities through objects in Malian theatre / Mary Jo Arnold -- The consumption of an African modernity / Michael Rowlands -- Household objects and the philosophy of Igbo social space / Chike Aniakor -- Hoes and clothes in a Luo household : changing consumption in a colonial economy, 1906-1936 / Margaret Jean Hay -- The passive object and the tribal paradigm: colonial museography in French West Africa / Philip L. Ravenhill -- Art, politics, and the transformation of meaning: Bamum art in the twentieth century / Christraud M. Geary -- Mami Wata shrines: exotica and the construction of self / Henry John Drewal -- Zaïrian popular painting as commodity and as communication / Bogumil Jewsiewicki.