African material culture
Art objects, African Material culture Philosophy, African Manners and customs Africa sähkökirjat
Indiana University Press
1996
EISBN 9780585027845
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.
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.
