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200 00$aImages and empires $evisuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa /$fedited by Paul S. Landau and Deborah D. Kaspin
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2002
215   $a1 online resource (398 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-520-22948-7 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 337-369) 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   $aVisual anthropology$zAfrica
606   $aVisual sociology$zAfrica
606   $aPostcolonialism$zAfrica
607   $aAfrica$xColonization
607   $aAfrica$vIn art
607   $aAfrica$xIn literature
607   $aAfrica$xIn mass media
615  0$aVisual anthropology
615  0$aVisual sociology
615  0$aPostcolonialism
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701   $aLandau$b Paul Stuart$f1962-$0970764
701   $aKaspin$b Deborah D.$f1953-$0970765
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