TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kasfir,Sidney Littlefield
TI  - African art and the colonial encounter: inventing a global commodity 
T2  - African expressive cultures
SN  - 9780253022653
AV  - DT433 .A375 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Samburu (African people)
KW  - Material culture
KW  - Idoma (African people)
KW  - Art, African
KW  - Western influences
KW  - Spears
KW  - Kenya
KW  - Colonies in art
KW  - Exoticism in art
KW  - Art and globalization
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
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