Images and Empires is a lively and engaging collection of essays on images and iconography, their meanings, uses, and influences in colonial and post-colonial Africa. The book offers a new way of understanding Africa beyond debates about oral versus written texts, by engaging with the visual.
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Images and Empires is a lively and engaging collection of essays on images and iconography, their meanings, uses, and influences in colonial and post-colonial Africa. The book offers a new way of understanding Africa beyond debates about oral versus written texts, by engaging with the visual.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 750grams, ISBN: 9780520229495.
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Berkeley. 2002. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0520229495. 380 pages. paperback. keywords: Anthropology Post-Colonial Africa Colonialism History. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Figurative images have long played a critical, if largely unexamined, role in Africa–mediating relationships between the colonizer and the colonized, the state and the individual, and the global and the local. This pivotal volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and culture. Paul S. Landau and Deborah Kaspin have assembled 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. The contributors, experts in a number of disciplines, discuss various modes of visuality in Africa and of Africa, investigating the interplay of visual images with personal identity, class, gender, politics, and wealth. Integral to the argument of the book are over seventy contextualized illustrations. Africans saw foreigners in margarine wrappers, Tintin cartoons, circus posters, and Hollywood movies; westerners gleaned impressions of Africans from colonial exhibitions, Tarzan films, and naturalist magazines. The authors provide concrete examples of the construction of Africa's image in the modern world. They reveal how imperial iconographies sought to understand, deny, control, or transform authority, as well as the astonishing complexity and hybridity of visual communication within Africa itself. inventory #36422.
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Fine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 396 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
