African art and the colonial encounter inventing a global commodity /
Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield.
African art and the colonial encounter inventing a global commodity / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, (c)2007. - 1 online resource (xviii, 381 pages) : illustrations. - African expressive cultures .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: colonial power and aesthetic practice -- Part 1. Warriors. Maa warriorhood and British colonial discource. -- Idoma warriorhood and the Pax Britannica -- Part 2. Sculptors and smiths. Colonial rupture and innovation: the colonizer as inadvertent patron -- Samburu smiths, Idoma maskmakers: power at a distance -- Part 3. Masks, spears, the body. Mask and spear: art, thing, commodity -- Warrior theatre and the ritualized body -- Part 4. Commodities. Idoma sculpture: colonialism and the market for African art -- Samburu encounters with modernity: spears as tourist souvenirs -- Samburu warriors in Hollywood films: cinematic commodities -- Reprise: the three C's: colonialism, commidities, and complex representations -- Coda: from spears to guns in the North Rift.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780253022653
Samburu (African people)--Material culture.
Idoma (African people)--Material culture.
Art, African--Western influences.
Spears--Kenya.
Colonies in art.
Exoticism in art.
Art and globalization.
Electronic Books.
DT433 / .A375 2007
African art and the colonial encounter inventing a global commodity / Sidney Littlefield Kasfir. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, (c)2007. - 1 online resource (xviii, 381 pages) : illustrations. - African expressive cultures .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: colonial power and aesthetic practice -- Part 1. Warriors. Maa warriorhood and British colonial discource. -- Idoma warriorhood and the Pax Britannica -- Part 2. Sculptors and smiths. Colonial rupture and innovation: the colonizer as inadvertent patron -- Samburu smiths, Idoma maskmakers: power at a distance -- Part 3. Masks, spears, the body. Mask and spear: art, thing, commodity -- Warrior theatre and the ritualized body -- Part 4. Commodities. Idoma sculpture: colonialism and the market for African art -- Samburu encounters with modernity: spears as tourist souvenirs -- Samburu warriors in Hollywood films: cinematic commodities -- Reprise: the three C's: colonialism, commidities, and complex representations -- Coda: from spears to guns in the North Rift.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780253022653
Samburu (African people)--Material culture.
Idoma (African people)--Material culture.
Art, African--Western influences.
Spears--Kenya.
Colonies in art.
Exoticism in art.
Art and globalization.
Electronic Books.
DT433 / .A375 2007