Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa de Landau, Paul [Editor]; Kaspin, Deborah [Editor]; - 2002-10-27

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… Leer más

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Univ of California Pr, 2002. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 380 pages. 8.75x6.00x1.25 inches.

University of California Press, 2002-10-07. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

University of California Press, 2002. Hardcover. New.

University of California Press, 2002. Hardcover. New.