Title: African material culture /
Authors: Arnoldi, Mary Jo.; Geary, Christraud M.; Hardin, Kris L.
Publisher: Indiana University Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Material culture Africa.; Art objects, African.; Philosophy, African.; Africa Social life and customs.
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.