Proceedings of the May 1988 conference and workshop on African material culture / organized by Mary Jo Arnoldi, Christraud M. Geary [and] Kris L. Hardin.

By: Arnoldi, Mary Jo
Contributor(s): Geary, Christraud M | Hardin, Kris L | American Council of Learned Societies. Joint Committee on African Studies | Social Science Research Council (U.S.) | Conference and Workshop on African Material Culture (1988: Bellagio, Italy)
Language: English Publisher: New York : Social Science Research Council, 1990.Description: xvi, 135p. ; 23cm.
Contents:
Contents: Des objets et des hommes / K. Ntole; The magical production of iron in the Cameroon Grassfields / M. Rowlands, J. - P. Warnier; Technology and gender in African iron making / E.W. Herbert; Weaving, pottery, technology, and the production of form in East Africa / A.B.C. Ocholla-Ayayo; Patterning change / K.L. Hardin; Edo ancestral altars / P.G. Ben-Amos; La céramique de la dépression de l'Upemba / K. Misago; From relics to tombs / G. Feeley-Harnik; Stick, self and society in Oromo / G. Mergerssa, A. Kassam- Megerssa; Puppet masquerade and the construction of identity in youth drama in Mali / M.J. Arnoldi; Igbo household objects / C. Aniakor; Hoes and clothes - Luo household / M.J. Hay; When Nomads settle / L. Prussin; The material culture of success - Bamenda / M. Rowlands; Life histories of Akan Terra Cottas / J. Anquandah; Mami Wata shrines / H.J. Drewal; The social history of Zairian popular painting / B. Jewseiwicki; Dislocations: Baule men's masks / S.M. Vogel; Art, politics and the transformation of meaning - Bamum thrones / C.M. Geary; A regional approach to the study of material culture / O. Odak; Conventional museums and the quest for relevance in Africa / E. Eyo; The passive object and the implicit paradigm: colonial museography in French West Africa / P.L. Ravenhill; Archéologie et culture matérielle: cas de Madagascar / J.A. Rakotoarisoa; Drink deep, or taste not / Adam Jones; "Artificial curiosities", material testemonies, works of art / E. Bassani; The African material culture information network / J.L. Stanley.
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Proceedings and abstracts of the papers from the conference held at The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, May 20-27, 1988.

Contents: Des objets et des hommes / K. Ntole; The magical production of iron in the Cameroon Grassfields / M. Rowlands, J. - P. Warnier; Technology and gender in African iron making / E.W. Herbert; Weaving, pottery, technology, and the production of form in East Africa / A.B.C. Ocholla-Ayayo; Patterning change / K.L. Hardin; Edo ancestral altars / P.G. Ben-Amos; La céramique de la dépression de l'Upemba / K. Misago; From relics to tombs / G. Feeley-Harnik; Stick, self and society in Oromo / G. Mergerssa, A. Kassam- Megerssa; Puppet masquerade and the construction of identity in youth drama in Mali / M.J. Arnoldi; Igbo household objects / C. Aniakor; Hoes and clothes - Luo household / M.J. Hay; When Nomads settle / L. Prussin; The material culture of success - Bamenda / M. Rowlands; Life histories of Akan Terra Cottas / J. Anquandah; Mami Wata shrines / H.J. Drewal; The social history of Zairian popular painting / B. Jewseiwicki; Dislocations: Baule men's masks / S.M. Vogel; Art, politics and the transformation of meaning - Bamum thrones / C.M. Geary; A regional approach to the study of material culture / O. Odak; Conventional museums and the quest for relevance in Africa / E. Eyo; The passive object and the implicit paradigm: colonial museography in French West Africa / P.L. Ravenhill; Archéologie et culture matérielle: cas de Madagascar / J.A. Rakotoarisoa; Drink deep, or taste not / Adam Jones; "Artificial curiosities", material testemonies, works of art / E. Bassani; The African material culture information network / J.L. Stanley.