African art and the colonial encounter : inventing a global commodity / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir.
Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield, author.
2007
DT433.545.S26 K37 2007eb
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Title African art and the colonial encounter : inventing a global commodity / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir.
Author Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield, author.
ISBN 9780253022653 (electronic book)
0253022657 (electronic book)
9780253348920
0253348927
9780253219220
0253219221
Imprint Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2007.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 381 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number DT433.545.S26 K37 2007eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.896/33
Distributor No. MWT11539365
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-364) and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series African expressive cultures.
Available in Other Form African art and the colonial encounter.
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Introduction: colonial power and aesthetic practice
Part 1. Warriors. Maa warriorhood and British colonial discource.
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, commidities, and complex representations
Coda: from spears to guns in the North Rift.

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