African Material Culture

INTRODUCTION: Efficacy and Objects Kris L. Hardin and MaryEJo Arnoldi PART I: TECHNOLOGY AND THE PRODUCTION OF FORM 1. Technological Style and the Making of Culture: Three Kono Contexts of Production Kris L. Hardin 2. Magical Iron Technology in the Cameroon Grassfields Michael Rowlands and Jean-Pierre Warnier 3. When Nomads Settle: Changing Technologies of Building and Transport and the Production of Architectural Form among the Gabra, the Rendille, and the Somalis Labelle Prussin 4. Ceramics from the Upemba Depression: A Diachronic Study Kanimba Misago 5. Objects and People: Relationships and Transformation in the Culture of the Bambala Kazadi Ntole PART II: CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES: PRESENTING SELF AND SOCIETY WITH OBJECTS 6. Sticks, Self, and Society in Booran Oromo: A Symbolic Interpretation Aneesa Kassam and Gemetchu Megerssa 7. Material Narratives and the Negotiation of Identities through Objects in Malian Theatre Mary Jo Arnoldi 8. The Consumption of an African Modernity Michael Rowlands 9. Household Objects and the Philosophy of Igbo Social Space Chike Aniakor 10. Hoes and Clothes in a Luo Household: Changing Consumption in a Colonial Economy, 1906-1936 Margaret Jean Hay PART III: LIFE HISTORIES: CHANGING INTERPRETATIONS OF OBJECTS AND MUSEUMS 11. The Passive Object and the Tribal Paradigm: Colonial Museography in French West Africa Philip L. Ravenhill 12. Art, Politics, and the Transformation of Meaning: Bamum Art in the Twentieth Century Christraud M. Geary 13. Mami Wata Shrines: Exotica and the Construction of Self Henry John Drewal 14. Za*rian Popular Painting as Commodity and as Communication Bogumil Jewsiewicki Contents INTRODUCTION: Efficacy and Objects Kris L. Hardin and MaryEJo Arnoldi PART I: TECHNOLOGY AND THE PRODUCTION OF FORM 1. Technological Style and the Making of Culture: Three Kono Contexts of Production Kris L. Hardin 2. Magical Iron Technology in the Cameroon Grassfields Michael Rowlands and Jean-Pierre Warnier 3. When Nomads Settle: Changing Technologies of Building and Transport and the Production of Architectural Form among the Gabra, the Rendille, and the Somalis Labelle Prussin 4. Ceramics from the Upemba Depression: A Diachronic Study Kanimba Misago 5. Objects and People: Relationships and Transformation in the Culture of the Bambala Kazadi Ntole PART II: CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES: PRESENTING SELF AND SOCIETY WITH OBJECTS 6. Sticks, Self, and Society in Booran Oromo: A Symbolic Interpretation Aneesa Kassam and Gemetchu Megerssa 7. Material Narratives and the Negotiation of Identities through Objects in Malian Theatre Mary Jo Arnoldi 8. The Consumption of an African Modernity Michael Rowlands 9. Household Objects and the Philosophy of Igbo Social Space Chike Aniakor 10. Hoes and Clothes in a Luo Household: Changing Consumption in a Colonial Economy, 1906-1936 Margaret Jean Hay PART III: LIFE HISTORIES: CHANGING INTERPRETATIONS OF OBJECTS AND MUSEUMS 11. The Passive Object and the Tribal Paradigm: Colonial Museography in French West Africa Philip L. Ravenhill 12. Art, Politics, and the Transformation of Meaning: Bamum Art in the Twentieth Century Christraud M. Geary 13. Mami Wata Shrines: Exotica and the Construction of Self Henry John Drewal 14. Za*rian Popular Painting as Commodity and as Communication Bogumil Jewsiewicki