African art and the colonial encounter
Subtitle: inventing a global commodity
By: Sidney Littlefield Kasfir.
Series: African expressive cultures
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780253348920; 9780253219220
Subjects: 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; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-364) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: colonial power and aesthetic practice; title: Maa warriorhood and British colonial discource; title: Idoma warriorhood and the Pax Britannica; title: Colonial rupture and innovation: the colonizer as inadvertent patron; title: Samburu smiths, Idoma maskmakers: power at a distance; title: Mask and spear: art, thing, commodity; title: Warrior theatre and the ritualized body; title: Idoma sculpture: colonialism and the market for African art; title: Samburu encounters with modernity: spears as tourist souvenirs; title: Samburu warriors in Hollywood films: cinematic commodities; title: Reprise: the three C's: colonialism, commidities, and complex representations; title: Coda: from spears to guns in the North Rift.