Images and Empires
Subtitle: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
Contributors: Paul S. Landau (Editor); Deborah D. Kaspin (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: October 7, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780520229495
Subjects: African studies; Cultural studies; Social & cultural anthropology; The Arts: General Issues; Social Science; Colonization; Archaeology / Anthropology; Visual sociology; Sociology; Africa; Sociology - General; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Postcolonialism; Visual anthropology
First sentence: In 1990, I asked Roger Dillon, a long-time Zimbabwean advertiser who was the owner of a small marketing firm, whether he had ever seen an example of African audiences misinterpreting or misunderstanding an advertisement of some kind.