9780253210371 - African Material Culture (African Systems of Thought) (6 Ergebnisse)

1996. Africa, Art. Indiana University Press. 369p., very good - fine paperback.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. paper edition. 384 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Zustand: Sehr gut. 384 Seiten Sehr gutes, sauberes Exemplar. - PART I - - TECHNOLOGY AND THE PRODUCTION OF FORM - - 1 - - TECHNOLOGICAL STYLE AND THE MAKING OF CULTURE - - Three Kono Contexts of Production - - Kris L. Hardin 31 - - 2 - - MAGICAL IRON TECHNOLOGY IN THE CAMEROON GRASSFIELDS - - Michael Rowlands and Jean-Pierre Warnier 51 - - 3 - - 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 73 - - 4 - - CERAMICS FROM THE UPEMBA DEPRESSION A Diachronic Study Kanimba Misago 103 - - 5 - - OBJECTS AND PEOPLE - - Relationships and Transformations in the Culture of the Bambala Kazadi Ntole 130 - PART II: - - CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES Presenting Self and Society with Objects - - 6 - - STICKS, SELF, AND SOCIETY IN BOORAN OROMO - - A Symbolic Interpretation Aneesa Kanare and Gemechu Mogerssa 143 - - 7 - - MATERIAL NARRATIVES AND THE NEGOTIATION OF IDENTITIES THROUGH OBJECTS IN MALIAN THEATRE Mary Somali 167 - - THE CONSUMPTION OF AN AFRICAN MODERNITY Mahal Koelona 188 - - HOUSEHOLD OBJECTS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF IGBO SOCIAL SPACE Choke Aniakur 214 - - 10 - - HOES AND CLOTHES IN A LUO HOUSEHOLD Changing Consungnion in a Colonial Economy. 1906-1936 Margant Jean Bay 243 - PART III - - LIFE HISTORIES - - Changing Interpretations of Objects and Museums - - 11 - - THE PASSIVE OBJECT AND THE TRIBAL PARADIGM Colonial Museography in French West Africa Philip L. Ravenhill 265 - - 12 - - ART, POLITICS, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF MEANING - - Bamum Art in the Twentieth Century Christraud M. Geary 283 - - 13 - - MAMI WATA SHRINES - - Exotica and the Construction of Self Henry John Drewal 308 - - 14 - - ZAÏRIAN POPULAR PAINTING AS COMMODITY AND AS COMMUNICATION - - Bogumil Jewsiewicki 334 - - ISBN 9780253210371 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 653.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Contains essays that open fresh perspectives for understanding African societies and cultures through the study of objects. This title treats topics ranging from the production of material objects to the meaning of sticks, masquerades, household tools, clot.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - MARY JO ARNOLDI is Curator for African Ethnology in the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

Zustand: As New. Like New condition. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.