"African Material Culture" unites fourteen interdisciplinary essays that open new perspectives for understanding African societies and cultures through the contextualized study of objects. Research by an international group of scholars, including anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians, historians, and linguists treats everything from the production of material objects to the meaning of sticks, masquerades, household tools, clothing, and the television set in the contemporary repertoire of African material culture. Contributors include Chike C. Aniakor, Mary Jo Arnoldi, Henry J. Drewal, Christraud M. Geary, Kris L. Hardin, Margaret Jean Hay, Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Kanimba Misago, Aneesa Kassam, Kazadi Ntole, Gemetchu Megerssa, Labelle Prussin, Philip L. Ravenhill, Michael Rowlands, and Jean-Pierre Warnier.
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Fourteen interdisciplinary essays examine African societies and cultures through the examination of material objects and ceremonies representing African culture. This college-level, scholarly collection will best appeal to any school with an African studies program in place: chapters which consider technological style influences, identity construction, and issues of changing interpretations of African objects and artifacts provide in-depth analysis. -- Midwest Book Review
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MARY JO ARNOLDI is Curator for African Ethnology in the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
CHRISTRAUD M. GEARY is Curator of the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
KRIS L. HARDIN is a Research Associate with the Smithsonian Institution.
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