LEADER 04044nam 22009373u 450 001 9910780449303321 005 20230418001755.0 010 $a0-520-92729-X 010 $a1-59734-667-5 035 $a(CKB)111090529078494 035 $a(EBL)224222 035 $a(OCoLC)55857417 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000176525 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11170138 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176525 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10206901 035 $a(PQKB)10252907 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056032 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC224222 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111090529078494 100 $a20130418d2002|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImages and empires$b[electronic resource] $evisuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa 210 $aBerkeley, Calif. ;$aLondon $cUniversity of California Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (398 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-22948-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIllustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction. An Amazing Distance: Pictures and People in Africa; 1. "Our Mosquitoes Are Not So Big": Images and Modernity in Zimbabwe; 2. The Sleep of the Brave: Graves as Sites and Signs in the Colonial Eastern Cape; 3. Tintin and the Interruptions of Congolese Comics; 4. Cartooning Nigerian Anticolonial Nationalism; 5. Empires of the Visual: Photography and Colonial Administration in Africa; 6. Portraits of Modernity: Fashioning Selves in Dakarois Popular Photography 327 $a7. Mami Wata and Santa Marta: Imag(in)ing Selves and Others in Africa and the Americas8. "Captured on Film": Bushmen and the Claptrap of Performative Primitives; 9. Decentering the Gaze at French Colonial Exhibitions; 10. The Politics of Bushman Representations; 11. Omada Art at the Crossroads of Colonialisms; 12. Bad Copies: The Colonial Aesthetic and the Manjaco-Portuguese Encounter; Conclusion: Signifying Power in Africa; Bibliography; Contributors; Index 330 $aFigurative images have long played a critical, if largely unexamined, role in Africa--mediating relationships between the colonizer and the colonized, the state and the individual, and the global and the local. This pivotal volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and culture. 606 $aAfrica 606 $aAfrica - Colonization 606 $aAfrica in art 606 $aAfrica in literature 606 $aAfrica in mass media 606 $aPostcolonialism 606 $aVisual anthropology 606 $aVisual anthropology-- Africa 606 $aVisual sociology 606 $aVisual anthropology$zAfrica 606 $aVisual sociology$zAfrica 606 $aPostcolonialism$zAfrica 606 $aAfrica in mass media 606 $aEthnic & Race Studies$2HILCC 606 $aGender & Ethnic Studies$2HILCC 606 $aSocial Sciences$2HILCC 607 $aAfrica$xIn art 607 $aAfrica$xIn mass media 607 $aAfrica$xIn literature 615 4$aAfrica. 615 4$aAfrica - Colonization. 615 4$aAfrica in art. 615 4$aAfrica in literature. 615 4$aAfrica in mass media. 615 4$aPostcolonialism. 615 4$aVisual anthropology. 615 4$aVisual anthropology-- Africa. 615 4$aVisual sociology. 615 0$aVisual anthropology 615 0$aVisual sociology 615 0$aPostcolonialism 615 0$aAfrica in mass media 615 7$aEthnic & Race Studies 615 7$aGender & Ethnic Studies 615 7$aSocial Sciences 676 $a301.096 676 $a301/.096 700 $aLandau$b Paul Stuart$f1962-$0970764 701 $aKaspin$b Deborah D$0970765 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780449303321 996 $aImages and empires$93803905 997 $aUNINA