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Images and empires :

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Images and empires :

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visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa /

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edited by Paul S. Landau and Deborah D. Kaspin.

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Berkeley :

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University of California Press,

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©2002.

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1 online resource (xvi, 380 pages) :

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illustrations

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-369) and index.

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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.

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This volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and culture. It assembles a wide-ranging collection of essays dealing with specific visual forms, including monuments cinema, cartoons, domestic and professional photography, body art, world fairs, and museum exhibits.

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EBL224222

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Images and empires.

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Postcolonialism-- Africa.

Visual anthropology-- Africa.

Visual sociology-- Africa.

Afrique dans la littérature.

Afrique dans l'art.

Afrique dans les médias.

Anthropologie visuelle-- Afrique.

Postcolonialisme-- Afrique.

Sociologie visuelle-- Afrique.

Africa.

Afrika.

Anthropologie

anthropology.

Beeldvorming.

Colonization.

Ethnic & Race Studies.

Ethnologie

Gender & Ethnic Studies.

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images.

Literature.

Mass media.

Postcolonialism.

Postkolonialisme.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- General.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Regional Studies.

Social Sciences.

Soziologie

Visual anthropology.

visual arts.

Visual sociology.

Visualisierung

Africa, Colonization.

Africa, In art.

Africa, In literature.

Africa, In mass media.

Afrique, Colonisation.

Africa.

Afrika

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Kaspin, Deborah D.,1953-

Landau, Paul Stuart,1962-

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20201208090440.0

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