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African cinema in the 1960s originated mainly from Francophone
countries. It resembled the art cinema of contemporary Europe and
relied on support from the French film industry and the French
state. Beginning in1969 the biennial Festival panafricain du
cin\u00e9ma et de la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision de Ouagadougou (FESPACO),
held in Burkina Faso, became the major showcase for these films.
But since the early 1990s, a new phenomenon has come to dominate
the African cinema world: mass-marketed films shot on less
expensive video cameras. These \u201cNollywood\u201d films, so
named because many originate in southern Nigeria, are a thriving
industry dominating the world of African cinema.Viewing African
Cinema in the Twenty-first Century is the first book to bring
together a set of essays offering a unique comparison of these two
main African cinema modes.
In this exciting new volume from the Society for Economic
Anthropology, Cynthia Werner and Duran Bell bring together a group
of distinguished anthropologists and economists to discuss the
complex ways in which different cultures imbue material objects
with symbolic qualities whose value cannot be reduced to material
or monetary equivalents. Objects with sacred or symbolic qualities
are valued quite differently than mundane objects, and the
contributors to this volume set out to unravel how and why. In the
first of three sections, the authors consider the extent to which
sacred objects can or cannot be exchanged between individuals
(e.g., ancestral objects, land, dreaming stories). In the next
section, contributors discuss the value and power of markets,
money, and credit. They consider theoretical models for
understanding money transactions, competing currencies, and the
power of credit among marginalized groups around the globe. The
last section examines the ways in which contemporary people bestow
symbolic value on some objects (e.g., family heirlooms,
pre-Columbian artifacts, fashion goods) and finally how some
individuals themselves are valued in monetary and symbolic ways.
With its emphasis on the interplay of cultural and economic values,
this volume will be a vital resource for economists and economic
anthropologists. Published in cooperation with the Society for
Economic Anthropology. Visit their web page.
This volume is a multidisciplinary contribution to Sephardic
studies, including chapters by some of the best-known authorities
in the field, interspersed with those of young scholars who have
begun making their mark in current research. The text aims to
enrich this emerging field through historical linguistic studies as
well as investigations based on contemporary movements, recent
literary creations, and the issues involved in contemporary
revival. The chapters presented in this collection include a
selection of papers originally presented at the symposium "Sepharad
as Imagined Community: Language, History and Religion from the
Early Modern Period to the 21st Century," as well as pioneering
contributions by other key scholars. Two notable additions include
innovative explorations of Judeo-Spanish on the Internet.
West African Challenge to Empire examines the anticolonial war in
the Volta and Bani region in 1915-16. It was the largest challenge
that the French ever faced in their West African colonial empire,
and one of the largest armed oppositions to colonialism anywhere in
Africa. How such a movement could be organized in the face of
European technological superiority despite the fact that this
region is generally described as having consisted of rival villages
and descent groups is a puzzle. In this jointly written book the
two authors provide a detailed political and military history of
this event based on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork.
Using cultural and sociological analysis, it probes the origins of
the movement, its internal organization, its strategy, and the
reasons for its initial success and why it spread. In 2001 the
authors of West African Challenge to Empire were awarded the Amaury
Talbot Prize for African Anthropology by the Royal Anthropological
Institute.
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