0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
Price
  • R50 - R100 (1)
  • R100 - R250 (33)
  • R250 - R500 (62)
  • R500+ (420)
  • -
Status
Format
Author / Contributor
Publisher

Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > Art of indigenous peoples

The Jaguar Within - Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Hardcover): Rebecca R Stone The Jaguar Within - Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Hardcover)
Rebecca R Stone
R1,570 R1,420 Discovery Miles 14 200 Save R150 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Shamanism--the practice of entering a trance state to experience visions of a reality beyond the ordinary and to gain esoteric knowledge--has been an important part of life for indigenous societies throughout the Americas from prehistoric times until the present. Much has been written about shamanism in both scholarly and popular literature, but few authors have linked it to another significant visual realm--art. In this pioneering study, Rebecca R. Stone considers how deep familiarity with, and profound respect for, the extra-ordinary visionary experiences of shamanism profoundly affected the artistic output of indigenous cultures in Central and South America before the European invasions of the sixteenth century.

Using ethnographic accounts of shamanic trance experiences, Stone defines a core set of trance vision characteristics, including enhanced senses, ego dissolution, bodily distortions, flying, spinning and undulating sensations, synaesthesia, and physical transformation from the human self into animal and other states of being. Stone then traces these visionary characteristics in ancient artworks from Costa Rica and Peru. She makes a convincing case that these works, especially those of the Moche, depict shamans in a trance state or else convey the perceptual experience of visions by creating deliberately chaotic and distorted conglomerations of partial, inverted, and incoherent images.

Blood and Beauty - Organized Violence in the Art and Archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America (Hardcover): Rex Koontz,... Blood and Beauty - Organized Violence in the Art and Archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America (Hardcover)
Rex Koontz, Heather Orr
R1,161 Discovery Miles 11 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Blood and Beauty brings together a diverse, prestigious group of contributors to debate this charged topic in an open, critical and frank interchange. Authors specializing in the anthropology, archaeology, art history, and linguistics of Mesoamerica and Central America bring new data and interpretive strategies to bear on the nature of institutional violence in these ancient societies. The volume covers a broad time frame, from circa 1200 B.C.E. to the sixteenth century, including recent ethnography. The volume endeavors to contextualize violence and violent acts within the matrix of indigenous thought and culture. Chapter topics reflect that desire, including localized, culturally specific, examinations of warfare, sacrifice, ballgames, boxing, pain, and healing. While there is no overarching theoretical perspective, the contributors are sensitive to current theoretical discourse in the field, including recent perspectives on organized violence and the agency of artworks.

Cherokee Pottery - From the Hands of Our Elders (Hardcover): 'M. Anna Fariello Cherokee Pottery - From the Hands of Our Elders (Hardcover)
'M. Anna Fariello; Introduction by Jane Eastman
R822 R716 Discovery Miles 7 160 Save R106 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cherokee Basketry - From the Hands of Our Elders (Hardcover): 'M. Anna Fariello Cherokee Basketry - From the Hands of Our Elders (Hardcover)
'M. Anna Fariello
R778 R683 Discovery Miles 6 830 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Wild Bull and the Sacred Forest - Form, Meaning, and Change in Senegambian Initiation Masks (Hardcover, New): Peter Mark The Wild Bull and the Sacred Forest - Form, Meaning, and Change in Senegambian Initiation Masks (Hardcover, New)
Peter Mark
R3,400 Discovery Miles 34 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This study of the cattle-horned initiation masks of southern Senegal and the Gambia weaves together art history, history, and cultural anthropology to give a detailed view of Casamance cultures, as they have interacted and changed over the past two centuries. Based on seven field trips to West Africa and fifteen years of research in colonial archives and museum collections from Dakar to Leipzig, Professor Mark's work presents a subtle interpretation of Casamance horned masquerades, their complex ritual symbolism, and the metaphysical concepts to which they allude. In tracing the cultural interaction and changing identity of the peoples of the Casamance, the author convincingly argues for a dynamic approach to art and ethnic identity. Culture should be seen not as a fixed entity but as a continuing process. This dynamic model reflects the history of interaction between Manding and Diola and between Muslim and non-Muslim, that has produced hybrid masks.

Atlas of Egyptian Art (Paperback): Prisse D'Avennes Atlas of Egyptian Art (Paperback)
Prisse D'Avennes; Introduction by Maarten J. Raven
R554 Discovery Miles 5 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This enchanted tour of Egyptian art by one of its early explorers is one of the most beautiful modern works on ancient Egyptian art. Prisse d'Avennes's monumental work, first published in Paris over a ten-year period between 1868 and 1878, includes the only surviving record of many lost artifacts. This classic work is now available for the first time in paperback.

The Burden of the Ancients - Maya Ceremonies of World Renewal from the Pre-columbian Period to the Present (Hardcover): Allen... The Burden of the Ancients - Maya Ceremonies of World Renewal from the Pre-columbian Period to the Present (Hardcover)
Allen J. Christenson
R2,266 R2,030 Discovery Miles 20 300 Save R236 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Maya theology, everything from humans and crops to gods and the world itself passes through endless cycles of birth, maturation, dissolution, death, and rebirth. Traditional Maya believe that human beings perpetuate this cycle through ritual offerings and ceremonies that have the power to rebirth the world at critical points during the calendar year. The most elaborate ceremonies take place during Semana Santa (Holy Week), the days preceding Easter on the Christian calendar, during which traditionalist Maya replicate many of the most important world-renewing rituals that their ancient ancestors practiced at the end of the calendar year in anticipation of the New Year's rites. Marshaling a wealth of evidence from Pre-Columbian texts, early colonial Spanish writings, and decades of fieldwork with present-day Maya, The Burden of the Ancients presents a masterfully detailed account of world-renewing ceremonies that spans the Pre-Columbian era through the crisis of the Conquest period and the subsequent colonial occupation all the way to the present. Allen J. Christenson focuses on Santiago Atitlan, a Tz'utujil Maya community in highland Guatemala, and offers the first systematic analysis of how the Maya preserved important elements of their ancient world renewal ceremonies by adopting similar elements of Roman Catholic observances and infusing them with traditional Maya meanings. His extensive description of Holy Week in Santiago Atitlan demonstrates that the community's contemporary ritual practices and mythic stories bear a remarkable resemblance to similar cultural entities from its Pre-Columbian past.

A Northern Cheyenne Album - Photographs by Thomas B. Marquis (Paperback): John Woodenlegs A Northern Cheyenne Album - Photographs by Thomas B. Marquis (Paperback)
John Woodenlegs; Edited by Margot Liberty
R1,320 Discovery Miles 13 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Rare photographs document the lives of Cheyenne people during the early reservation yearsIn 1878 the Northern Cheyennes left what is now Oklahoma, where they had been incarcerated, and began an epic journey back to their homeland. They suffered great losses, but a small group of survivors reached its destination in southeastern Montana in 1879 and eventually won the right to a reservation there. A Northern Cheyenne Album presents a rare series of never-before-published photographs that document the lives of tribal people on the reservation during the early twentieth century - a period of rapid change. Reservation physician and expert photographer Thomas B. Marquis captured Northern Cheyenne life in numerous images taken from 1926 to 1935. After 1960, former tribal president John Woodenlegs and others interviewed tribal elders and, drawing on tape recordings, composed the photos' lively captions. Margot Liberty, editor of this volume, has added her own descriptions, filling in details of Northern Cheyenne culture and history from a scholar's viewpoint. A valuable record of an all-but-forgotten generation, this volume is also an inspiring tribute to the Northern Cheyenne elders whose resilience and adaptability helped ensure the future of their people.

Painted Journeys - The Art of John Mix Stanley (Paperback): Peter H. Hassrick, Mindy N. Besaw Painted Journeys - The Art of John Mix Stanley (Paperback)
Peter H. Hassrick, Mindy N. Besaw; Foreword by Bruce B Eldredge
R1,517 R888 Discovery Miles 8 880 Save R629 (41%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Artist-explorer John Mix Stanley (1814-1872), one of the most celebrated chroniclers of the American West in his time, was in a sense a victim of his own success. So highly regarded was his work that more than two hundred of his paintings were held at the Smithsonian Institution - where in 1865 a fire destroyed all but seven of them. This volume, featuring a comprehensive collection of Stanley's extant art, reproduced in full color, offers an opportunity - and ample reason - to rediscover the remarkable accomplishments of this outsize figure of nineteenth-century American culture. Originally from New York State, Stanley journeyed west in 1842 to paint Indian life. During the U.S.-Mexican War, he joined a frontier military expedition and traveled from Santa Fe to California, producing sketches and paintings of the campaign along the way - work that helped secure his fame in the following decades. He was also appointed chief artist for Isaac Stevens's survey of the 48th parallel for a proposed transcontinental railroad. The essays in this volume, by noted scholars of American art, document and reflect on Stanley's life and work from every angle. The authors consider the artist's experience on government expeditions; his solo tours among the Oregon settlers and western and Plains Indians; and his career in Washington and search for government patronage, as well as his individual works. With contributions by Emily C. Burns, Scott Manning Stevens, Lisa Strong, Melissa Speidel, Jacquelyn Sparks, and Emily C. Wilson, the essays in this volume convey the full scope of John Mix Stanley's artistic accomplishment and document the unfolding of that uniquely American vision throughout the artist's colorful life. Together they restore Stanley to his rightful place in the panorama of nineteenth-century American life and art.

Moche Portraits from Ancient Peru (Hardcover): Christopher B Donnan Moche Portraits from Ancient Peru (Hardcover)
Christopher B Donnan
R1,035 Discovery Miles 10 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"This book is as close as we can ever come to seeing the Moche people-- and to having a basis for understanding the society that produced such remarkable works of art." -- Craig Morris, Senior Vice President and Dean of Science, American Museum of Natural History

"By presenting the Moche artists and the people who have been portrayed by them, Donnan brings us to a level of understanding and proximity, so to speak, that I would have never considered possible just a few years ago. . . . Believe me, this book is going to be a bestseller." -- Steve Bourget, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Texas at Austin

Of all the ancient civilizations that flourished in the Americas, only one perfected true portraiture of living people and produced it in quantity-- the Moche who inhabited the north coast of Peru between approximately AD 100 and 800. Using the medium of three-dimensional ceramic vessels that could have contained liquid, Moche artisans typically formed the heads of the individuals they wished to portray, though sometimes they presented full figures with realistic portrait faces. Depicting an astonishing range of physical types, these portraits now allow us to meet Moche people who lived more than 1,500 years ago and to sense the nuances of their individual personalities.

This pathfinding book presents the first wide-ranging, systematic study of the Moche portraits. Drawing on more than 900 examples from museums and private collections around the world-- some 300 of which are illustrated here in full color-- Christopher Donnan documents how the portrait tradition evolved, how the portraits were produced and distributed, who theyportrayed, why they were made, and how they were used in Moche society. His analysis is supported by extensive archaeological evidence, which provides the context for portraits found in Moche tombs and midden deposits, as well as useful information for identifying the headdresses and ornaments worn by the individuals portrayed.

Knowledge Within - Treasures of the Northwest Coast (Hardcover): Caitlin Gordon-Walker Knowledge Within - Treasures of the Northwest Coast (Hardcover)
Caitlin Gordon-Walker
R1,519 R1,052 Discovery Miles 10 520 Save R467 (31%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Big Book Indian Beadwork Designs (Paperback): Kay D. Bennett Big Book Indian Beadwork Designs (Paperback)
Kay D. Bennett
R273 Discovery Miles 2 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Easy-to-follow diagrams and simple instructions enable even beginners to create a host of striking Native American designs. Color-coded patterns for buffalo, kachinas, eagles and more will add delightful ornamental touches to T-shirts, vests and blouses, lend distinctive touches to handbags, headbands, and belts, and enhance cushion covers, table linens, and other household accessories. An inexpensive do-it-yourself book for successfully completing dozens of beautiful projects for yourself, family and friends.

Water, Wind, Breath - Southwest Native Art in the Barnes Foundation (Hardcover): Lucy Fowler Williams Water, Wind, Breath - Southwest Native Art in the Barnes Foundation (Hardcover)
Lucy Fowler Williams; Contributions by Antonio Chavarria, Tahnibaa Naataanii, Ken Williams, Robert Bauver, …
R1,597 R1,452 Discovery Miles 14 520 Save R145 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Barnes Foundation's historic Pueblo and Navajo collections are explored alongside works by contemporary Native American artists This richly illustrated book makes the Barnes Foundation's exceptional collection of Native American art from the Southwest available to the public for the first time. Collector and educator Albert C. Barnes traveled to the U.S. Southwest in 1930 and 1931 and, deeply impressed by the generative art practices he saw there, formed a collection of Pueblo and Navajo pottery, textiles, and jewelry. Water, Wind, Breath illuminates the materials, forms, and designs of the objects as they relate to Pueblo and Navajo histories and ideas. The book blends postcolonial and Indigenous perspectives, introducing readers to living artistic traditions filled with purpose, intention, and a deeply embedded spirituality that connects places, practices, and Native identities. Works by contemporary Native American artists are juxtaposed with historic pieces, illuminating the connections between heritage traditions and modern practices. Distributed for the Barnes Foundation Exhibition Schedule: The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (February 20-May 15, 2022)

Indigenuity - Native Craftwork & the Art of American Literatures (Paperback): Caroline Wigginton Indigenuity - Native Craftwork & the Art of American Literatures (Paperback)
Caroline Wigginton
R833 Discovery Miles 8 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For hundreds of years, American artisanship and American authorship were entangled practices rather than distinct disciplines. Books, like other objects, were multisensory items all North American communities and cultures, including Native and settler colonial ones, regularly made and used. All cultures and communities narrated and documented their histories and imaginations through a variety of media. All created objects for domestic, sacred, curative, and collective purposes. In this innovative work at the intersection of Indigenous studies, literary studies, book history, and material culture studies, Caroline Wigginton tells a story of the interweavings of Native craftwork and American literatures from their ancient roots to the present. Focused primarily on North America, especially the colonized lands and waters now claimed by the United States, this book argues for the foundational but often-hidden aesthetic orientation of American literary history toward Native craftwork. Wigginton knits this narrative to another of Indigenous aesthetic repatriation through the making and using of books and works of material expression. Ultimately, she reveals that Native craftwork is by turns the warp and weft of American literature, interwoven throughout its long history.

Hunters of the Ice (Paperback): Stephen Irwin Hunters of the Ice (Paperback)
Stephen Irwin
R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Symmetry Comes of Age - The Role of Pattern in Culture (Hardcover): Dorothy K. Washburn, Donald W Crowe Symmetry Comes of Age - The Role of Pattern in Culture (Hardcover)
Dorothy K. Washburn, Donald W Crowe
R1,558 Discovery Miles 15 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the companion volume to the authors' groundbreaking Symmetries of Culture, the classic reference for symmetry analysis of pattern for anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians, mathematicians, and designers. Central to symmetry analysis is the use of symmetry in the more precise sense of its geometrical isometries in contrast to its everyday meaning of balance. For this volume, Donald Crowe and Dorothy Washburn invited colleagues from several disciplines to apply the method of symmetry analysis to actual case studies from cultures around the world. The essays compiled here explore how cultural information is embedded in the symmetrical structure of pattern. From descriptions of patterns on objects as diverse as Nasca embroideries, Ica Valley ceramics, Quechua textiles, Yombe mats, and Zulu beadwork, as well as from Amazonian shamanic therapy, ceramic design among the Shipibo, and Turkish Yoeruk weaving, the contributors reveal how the symmetrical structures in the patterns describe aspects of each culture's fundamental principles for living in the world. This approach offers a profoundly fresh way to read the meaning in pattern by arguing that pattern communicates through the structural metaphors embedded in the symmetrical relationship of the pattern parts. The two volumes together offer readers a revolutionary new window into the communicative importance of design.

Northwest Native Arts: Basic Forms - Basic Forms (Paperback): Robert E. Stanley Sr. Northwest Native Arts: Basic Forms - Basic Forms (Paperback)
Robert E. Stanley Sr.
R451 R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Save R65 (14%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First Nation's artist Robert E Stanley Sr shares his knowledge and technique in rendering classic Northwest Native drawings. Now you too, can learn to draw some of the legendary animals of the First Nation's tribes, by learning Robert's technique's passed down to him from generation to generation.

Grave Images - San Luis Valley (Paperback): Kathy T Hettinga Grave Images - San Luis Valley (Paperback)
Kathy T Hettinga; Foreword by Nicholas Wolterstorff
R1,340 R1,269 Discovery Miles 12 690 Save R71 (5%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Cemeteries are the repositories of history and personal narrative, places of comfort and beauty. Beginning in 1994, photographer and installation artist Kathy T. Hettinga began a fourteen-year project to document an unknown body of funerary folk art displayed in the cemeteries of the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. The book begins with the author's story of death and loss as a young widow living in the San Luis Valley. Years later, the beauty of the valley was relentless in calling her back to document the places and the ways people honor those that have died. Grave Images recounts Hettinga's spiritual and artistic journey to find meaning in the cemeteries of rural and largely Hispanic communities of the San Luis Valley. Her photographs of unique grave markers made of wood, concrete, metal, sandstone, glass and other materials by individuals or families to commemorate the passing of loved ones capture the ethereal beauty of the cemeteries and serve as a touchstone for our common understanding of loss, grief, and the need to memorialize and pay tribute. Hettinga's illuminating narrative articulates the meaning of this visual record from the perspective of an artist and provides religious and historical perspectives on the San Luis Valley as final resting place. This book will appeal to artists, art historians, ethnographers, historians, scholars of religion and general audiences interested in photography, folk art, and the history of the San Luis Valley.

Art, Observation, and an Anthropology of Illustration (Hardcover): Max Carocci, Stephanie Pratt Art, Observation, and an Anthropology of Illustration (Hardcover)
Max Carocci, Stephanie Pratt
R3,762 Discovery Miles 37 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Art, Observation, and an Anthropology of Illustration examines the role of sketches, drawings and other artworks in our understanding of human cultures of the past. Bringing together art historians and anthropologists, it presents a selection of detailed case studies of various bodies of work produced by non-Western and Western artists from different world regions and from different time periods (from Native North America, Cameroon, and Nepal, to Italy, Solomon Islands, and Mexico) to explore the contemporary relevance and challenges implicit in artistic renditions of past peoples and places. In an age when identities are partially constructed on the basis of existing visual records, the book asks important questions about the nature of observation and the inclusion of culturally-relevant information in artistic representations. How reliable are watercolours, paintings, or sketches for the understanding of past ways of life? How do old images of bygone peoples relate to art historical and anthropological canons? How have these images and technologies of representation been used to describe, illustrate, or explain unknown realities? The book is an essential tool for art historians, anthropologists, and anyone who wants to understand how the observation of different realities has impacted upon the production of art and visual cultures. Incorporating current methodological and theoretical tools, the 10 chapters collected here expand the area of connection between the disciplines of art history and anthropology, bringing into sharp focus the multiple intersections of objectivity, evidence, and artistic licence.

Brian Jungen: Couch Monster - Sadz?? Yaaghehch'ill (Paperback): Brian Jungen Brian Jungen: Couch Monster - Sadzěʔ Yaaghehch'ill (Paperback)
Brian Jungen; Edited by Julian Cox
R930 R819 Discovery Miles 8 190 Save R111 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Standing on the Walls of Time - Ancient Art of Utah's Cliffs and Canyons (Paperback): Kevin T. Jones, Layne Miller Standing on the Walls of Time - Ancient Art of Utah's Cliffs and Canyons (Paperback)
Kevin T. Jones, Layne Miller
R577 R537 Discovery Miles 5 370 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In western culture, rock art has traditionally been viewed as ""primitive"" and properly belonging in the purview of anthropologists rather than art scholars and critics. This volume, featuring previously unpublished photographs of Utah's magnificent rock art by long-time rock art researcher Layne Miller and essays by former Utah state archaeologist Kevin Jones, views rock art through a different lens. Miller's photographs include many rare and relatively unknown panels and represent a lifetime of work by someone intimately familiar with the Colorado Plateau. The photos highlight the astonishing variety of rock art as well as the variability within traditions and time periods. Jones's essays furnish general information about previous Colorado Plateau cultures and shine a light on rock art as art. The book emphasizes the exqui site artistry of these ancient works and their capacity to reach through the ages to envelop and inspire viewers.

The Arc of Abstraction (Hardcover): Tricia Laughlin Bloom, Donald Kuspit The Arc of Abstraction (Hardcover)
Tricia Laughlin Bloom, Donald Kuspit
R784 Discovery Miles 7 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Write Their Dream on the Rock Forever - Rock Writings in the Stein River Valley of British Columbia (Paperback, 2nd... The Write Their Dream on the Rock Forever - Rock Writings in the Stein River Valley of British Columbia (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Annie York, Chris Arnett, Richard Daley
R622 Discovery Miles 6 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Indians Playing Indian - Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America (Paperback): Monika Siebert Indians Playing Indian - Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America (Paperback)
Monika Siebert
R1,099 R750 Discovery Miles 7 500 Save R349 (32%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Explores how American Indian artists have responded to the pervasive misunderstanding of indigenous peoples as cultural minorities in the United States and Canada Contemporary indigenous peoples in North America confront a unique predicament. While they are reclaiming their historic status as sovereign nations, mainstream popular culture continues to depict them as cultural minorities similar to other ethnic Americans. These depictions of indigenous peoples as "Native Americans" complete the broader narrative of America as a refuge to the world's immigrants and a home to contemporary multicultural democracies, such as the United States and Canada. But they fundamentally misrepresent indigenous peoples, whose American history has been not of immigration but of colonization. Monika Siebert's Indians Playing Indian first identifies this phenomenon as multicultural misrecognition, explains its sources in North American colonial history and in the political mandates of multiculturalism, and describes its consequences for contemporary indigenous cultural production. It then explores the responses of indigenous artists who take advantage of the ongoing popular interest in Native American culture and art while offering narratives of the political histories of their nations in order to resist multicultural incorporation. Each chapter of Indians Playing Indian showcases a different medium of contemporary indigenous art-museum exhibition, cinema, digital fine art, sculpture, multimedia installation, and literary fiction-and explores specific rhetorical strategies artists deploy to forestall multicultural misrecognition and recover political meanings of indigeneity. The sites and artists discussed include the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC; filmmakers at Inuit Isuma Productions; digital artists/photographers Dugan Aguilar, Pamela Shields, and Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie; sculptor Jimmie Durham; and novelist LeAnne Howe.

Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa - A Study of Trans-Imperial Cultural Flows... Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa - A Study of Trans-Imperial Cultural Flows (Paperback)
Zachary Kingdon
R828 Discovery Miles 8 280 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The early collections from Africa in Liverpool's World Museum reflect the city's longstanding shipping and commercial links with Africa's Atlantic coast. A principal component of these collections is an assemblage of several thousand artefacts from western Africa that were transported to institutions in northwest England between 1894 and 1916 by the Liverpool steam ship engineer Arnold Ridyard. While Ridyard's collecting efforts can be seen to have been shaped by the steamers' dynamic capacity to connect widely separated people and places, his Methodist credentials were fundamental in determining the profile of his African networks, because they meant that he was not part of official colonial authority in West Africa. Kingdon's study uncovers the identities of many of Ridyard's numerous West African collaborators and discusses their interests and predicaments under the colonial dispensation. Against this background account, their agendas are examined with reference to surviving narratives that accompanied their donations and within the context of broader processes of trans-imperial exchange, through which they forged new identities and statuses for themselves and attempted to counter expressions of British cultural imperialism in the region. The study concludes with a discussion of the competing meanings assigned to the Ridyard assemblage by the Liverpool Museum and examines the ways in which its re-contextualization in museum contexts helped to efface signs of the energies and narratives behind its creation.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
The Training Evaluation Process - A…
David J. Basarab Sr, Darrell K. Root Hardcover R3,040 Discovery Miles 30 400
oTHEr Dimension - Secret Codes of the…
Nishant Dutt Paperback R517 R472 Discovery Miles 4 720
The Shepherd And The Beast - The Hero's…
Tramayne Monaghan Paperback R265 R237 Discovery Miles 2 370
Human Resource Management
Paperback R585 R548 Discovery Miles 5 480
Fully Charged - How Great Leaders Boost…
Heike Bruch, Bernd Vogel Hardcover R954 R738 Discovery Miles 7 380
South African Human Resource Management…
Anton Grobler, Alda Deas, … Paperback R650 R600 Discovery Miles 6 000
Solid Waste Landfilling - Concepts…
Raffaello Cossu, Rainer Stegmann Paperback R4,373 Discovery Miles 43 730
Understanding Elephants - Guidelines for…
Elephant Specialist Advisory Group Paperback R200 R185 Discovery Miles 1 850
Politics and the Environment - From…
James Connelly, Graham Smith, … Paperback  (1)
R1,636 Discovery Miles 16 360
Resilience - The Science of Adaptation…
Zinta Zommers, Keith Alverson Paperback R2,228 Discovery Miles 22 280

 

Partners