Images and empires : visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa / / edited by Paul S. Landau and Deborah D. Kaspin |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (398 p.) |
Disciplina | 301/.096 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
LandauPaul Stuart <1962->
KaspinDeborah D. <1953-> |
Soggetto topico |
Visual anthropology - Africa
Visual sociology - Africa Postcolonialism - Africa |
ISBN |
0-520-92729-X
1-59734-667-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Illustrations; 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
7. 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815540903321 |
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Investigating culture [[electronic resource] ] : an experiential introduction to anthropology / / Carol Delaney with Deborah Kaspin |
Autore | Delaney Carol Lowery <1940-> |
Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 420 p.) : ill |
Disciplina | 301 |
Altri autori (Persone) | KaspinDeborah D. <1953-> |
Soggetto topico | Anthropology |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
9781444396904 (e-book)
9781405154246 (pbk.) |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | CHAPTER 1: Disorientation and Orientation -- Exercises -- Reading: Laura Bohannan, "Shakespeare in the Bush" -- CHAPTER 2: Spatial Locations -- Exercises -- Reading: Sue Bridwell Beckham, "The American Front Porch: Women's Liminal Space" -- CHAPTER 3: All We Have Is Time -- Exercises -- Reading: Ellen Goodman, "Time Is for Savoring" -- CHAPTER 4: Language: We Are What We Speak -- Exercises -- Reading: Ursula LeGuin, "She Unnames Them" -- Reading: Alan Dundes, "Seeing Is Believing" -- CHAPTER 5: Relatives and Relations -- Exercises -- Reading: Penelope Eckert, "Symbols of Category Membership" -- Reading: A. M. Hocart, "Kinship Systems" -- CHAPTER 6: Our Bodies, Our Selves -- Exercises -- Reading: Horace Miner, "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" -- CHAPTER 7: Food for Thought -- Exercises -- Reading: Jill Dubisch, "You Are What You Eat: Religious Aspects of the Health Food Movement" -- CHAPTER 8: Clothing Matters -- Exercises -- Reading: Julio Ramâon Ribeyro, "Alienation (An Instructive Story with a Footnote)" -- CHAPTER 9: VIPs: Very Important People, Places, and Performances -- Exercises -- Reading: Clifford Geertz, "The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man" -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461707903321 |
Delaney Carol Lowery <1940->
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Chichester, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 | ||
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