Table of Contents: African material culture /

Other Authors:	Geary, Christraud M.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1996.
Series:	African systems of thought
Subjects:	Material culture > Africa. Art objects, African. Philosophy, African. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture. Manners and customs. Material culture. Africa > Social life and customs. Africa.
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Table of Contents:

pt. 1. Technological style and the making of culture
Magical iron technology in the Cameroon Grassfields
When nomads settle
Ceramics from the Upemba Depression
Objects and people
pt. 2. Sticks, self, and society in Booran Oromo
Material narratives and the negotiation of identities through objects in Malian theatre
The consumption of an African modernity
Household objects and the philosophy of Igbo social space
Hoes and clothes in a Luo household
pt. 3. The passive object and the tribal paradigm
Art, politics and the transformation of meaning
Mami Wata shrines
Zaïrian popular painting as commodity and as communication.