African material culture / edited by Mary Jo Arnoldi, Christraud M. Geary & Kris L. Hardin.

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Uniform Title:African systems of thought.
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Arnoldi, Mary Jo
Geary, Christraud M.
Hardin, Kris L.
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1996], ©1996.
Series:African systems of thought.
Subjects:
Material culture > Africa.
Art objects, African.
Philosophy, African.
Africa > Social life and customs.
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Physical Description:xii, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Format: Electronic eBook
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.