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African material culture / edited by Mary Jo Arnoldi, Christraud M. Geary & Kris L. Hardin.

Title
African material culture / edited by Mary Jo Arnoldi, Christraud M. Geary & Kris L. Hardin.
Publication
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1996.

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Additional Authors
  • Arnoldi, Mary Jo.
  • Geary, Christraud M.
  • Hardin, Kris L.
Description
xii, 369 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Series Statement
African systems of thought
Uniform Title
  • Project Muse UPCC books
  • African systems of thought.
Subject
  • Material culture > Africa
  • Art objects, African
  • Philosophy, African
  • Africa > Social life and customs
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Pt. 1. Technological style and the making of culture -- Magical iron technology in the Cameroon Grassfields -- When nomads settle -- Ceramics from the Upemba Depression -- Objects and people -- Pt. 2. Sticks, self, and society in Booran Oromo -- Material narratives and the negotiation of identities through objects in Malian theatre -- The consumption of an African modernity -- Household objects and the philosophy of Igbo social space -- Hoes and clothes in a Luo household -- Pt. 3. The passive object and the tribal paradigm -- Art, politics and the transformation of meaning -- Mami Wata shrines -- Zaïrian popular painting as commodity and as communication.
ISBN
  • 0253330009 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0253210372 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^95040501^
OCLC
  • 33131690
  • SCSB-10058707
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library