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1 online resource (xvi, 380 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-369) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: An amazing distance: pictures and people in Africa / Paul S. Landau -- "Our mosquitoes are not so big": images and modernity in Zimbabwe / Timothy Burke -- The sleep of the brave: graves as sites and signs in the colonial eastern Cape / David Bunn -- Tintin and the interruptions of Congolese comics / Nancy Rose Hunt -- Cartooning Nigerian anticolonial nationalism / Tejumola Olaniyan -- Empires of the visual: photography and colonial administration in Africa / Paul S. Landau -- Portraits of modernity: fashioning selves in Dakarois popular photography / Hudita Nura Mustafa -- Mami Wata and Santa Marta: Imag(in)ing selves and others in Africa and the Americas / Henry John Drewal -- "Captured on film": bushmen and the claptrap of performative primitives / Robert J. Gordon -- Decentering the gaze at French colonial exhibitions / Catherine Hodeir -- The politics of bushman representations / Pippas Skotnes -- Omada art at the crossroads of colonialisms / Paula Ben-Amos Girshick -- Bad copies: the colonial aesthetic and the Manjaco-Portuguese encounter / Eric Gable -- Conclusion: Signifying power in Africa / Deborah D. Kaspin. |
| Summary |
This volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and culture. It assembles a wide-ranging collection of essays dealing with specific visual forms, including monuments cinema, cartoons, domestic and professional photography, body art, world fairs, and museum exhibits. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Visual anthropology -- Africa.
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Visual anthropology. |
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Africa. |
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Visual sociology -- Africa.
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Visual sociology. |
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Africa -- Colonization.
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Colonization. |
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Postcolonialism -- Africa.
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Postcolonialism. |
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Africa -- In art.
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Africa -- In literature.
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Africa -- In mass media.
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Africa -- Colonization. |
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Africa -- In art. |
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Africa -- In literature. |
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Africa -- In mass media. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Art.
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| Added Author |
Landau, Paul Stuart, 1962-
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Kaspin, Deborah D., 1953-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Images and empires. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002 0520229487 0520229495 (DLC) 2001008248 (OCoLC)48620274 |
| ISBN |
9780520927292 (electronic book) |
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052092729X (electronic book) |
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141752264X (electronic book) |
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9781417522644 (electronic book) |
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0520229487 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520229488 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520229495 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520229495 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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1597346675 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9781597346672 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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