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BL
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962240
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b716610
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Images and empires : : visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa /\ edited by Paul S. Landau and Deborah D. Kaspin.
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, ©2002.
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1 online resource (xvi, 380 pages) :: illustrations
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0520229487
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: 0520229495
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: 141752264X
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: 1597346675
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: 9780520229488
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: 9780520229495
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: 9780520927292
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: 9781417522644
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: 9781597346672
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-369) and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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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Postcolonialism-- Africa.
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Visual anthropology-- Africa.
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Visual sociology-- Africa.
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Afrique dans la littérature.
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Afrique dans l'art.
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Afrique dans les médias.
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Anthropologie visuelle-- Afrique.
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Postcolonialisme-- Afrique.
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Sociologie visuelle-- Afrique.
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Africa.
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Anthropologie
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anthropology.
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Colonization.
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Ethnic Race Studies.
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Ethnologie
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Gender Ethnic Studies.
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Geschichte
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images.
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Literature.
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Mass media.
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Postcolonialism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Regional Studies.
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Social Sciences.
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Soziologie
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Visual anthropology.
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visual arts.
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Visual sociology.
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Visualisierung
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Afrika.
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Beeldvorming.
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Postkolonialisme.
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Africa, Colonization.
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Africa, In art.
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Africa, In literature.
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Africa, In mass media.
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Afrique, Colonisation.
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Africa.
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Afrika
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| Dewey Classification
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301/.096
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| LC Classification
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GN645.I43 2002eb
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15.80bcl
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15.80.bcl
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301.096.22
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73.03bcl
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73.03.bcl
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LO 90850rvk
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LO 90850.rvk
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MS 7960rvk
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MS 7960.rvk
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| Added Entry
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Kaspin, Deborah D.,1953-
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Landau, Paul Stuart,1962-
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