Lukasa! (The Devil’s Toy) African Inspirations and Western Objects

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" Lukasa! (The Devil’s Toy) African Inspirations and Western Objects "
Drew Walker

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1063940
Doc. No	:	LA107569
Call No	:	‭10.1163/2031356X-01204002‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Drew Walker
Title & Author	:	Lukasa! (The Devil’s Toy) African Inspirations and Western Objects [Article]\ Drew Walker
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Afrika Focus
Date	:	1996
Volume/ Issue Number	:	12/4
Page No	:	143–160
Abstract	:	This paper shows the encounter between an object found among the Luba of Zaire and the art historical treatment of it by western scholars. In this encounter certain tendencies are pointed out which on one hand point to a greatly unackowledged bias of western scholars in their regarding of foreign objects as art, and on the other hand may work to refigure those ways of seeing to form a richer understanding of memory, beauty and history in western scholarly practice. This paper shows the encounter between an object found among the Luba of Zaire and the art historical treatment of it by western scholars. In this encounter certain tendencies are pointed out which on one hand point to a greatly unackowledged bias of western scholars in their regarding of foreign objects as art, and on the other hand may work to refigure those ways of seeing to form a richer understanding of memory, beauty and history in western scholarly practice.
Descriptor	:	Gift (in its German and English senses à la Marcel Mauss)
Descriptor	:	memory
Descriptor	:	object
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/2031356X-01204002‬