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Images and empires : visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa

Title
  1. Images and empires : visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa / edited by Paul S. Landau and Deborah D. Kaspin.
Published by
  1. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

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Additional authors
  1. Landau, Paul Stuart, 1962-
  2. Kaspin, Deborah D., 1953-
Description
  1. xvi, 380 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  1. Visual anthropology > Africa
  2. Visual sociology > Africa
  3. Postcolonialism > Africa
  4. Africa > Colonization
  5. Africa > In art
  6. Africa > In literature
  7. Africa > In mass media
Contents
  1. Introduction: An amazing distance: pictures and people in Africa / Paul S. Landau -- "Our mosquitoes are not so big": images and modernity in Zimbabwe / Timothy Burke -- The sleep of the brave: graves as sites and signs in the colonial eastern Cape / David Bunn -- Tintin and the interruptions of Congolese comics / Nancy Rose Hunt -- Cartooning Nigerian anticolonial nationalism / Tejumola Olaniyan -- Empires of the visual: photography and colonial administration in Africa / Paul S. Landau -- Portraits of modernity: fashioning selves in Dakarois popular photography / Hudita Nura Mustafa -- Mami Wata and Santa Marta: Imag(in)ing selves and others in Africa and the Americas / Henry John Drewal -- "Captured on film": bushmen and the claptrap of performative primitives / Robert J. Gordon -- Decentering the gaze at French colonial exhibitions / Catherine Hodeir -- The politics of bushman representations / Pippas Skotnes -- Omada art at the crossroads of colonialisms / Paula Ben-Amos Girshick -- Bad copies: the colonial aesthetic and the Manjaco-Portuguese encounter / Eric Gable -- Conclusion: Signifying power in Africa / Deborah D. Kaspin.
Call number
  1. Sc E 02-1550
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-369) and index.
Title
  1. Images and empires : visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa / edited by Paul S. Landau and Deborah D. Kaspin.
Imprint
  1. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-369) and index.
Added author
  1. Landau, Paul Stuart, 1962-
  2. Kaspin, Deborah D., 1953-
LCCN
  1. 2001008248
ISBN
  1. 0520229487 (cloth : alk. paper)
  2. 0520229495 (paper : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. Sc E 02-1550
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