INTRODUCTION: Efficacy and Objects • Kris L. Hardin and Mary Jo Arnoldi
PART I: TECHNOLOGY AND THE PRODUCTION OF FORM
1. Technological Style and the Making of Culture: Three Kono Contexts of Production • Kris L. Hardin
2. Magical Iron Technology in the Cameroon Grassfields • Michael Rowlands and Jean-Pierre Warnier
3. When Nomads Settle: Changing Technologies of Building and Transport and the Production of Architectural Form among the Gabra, the Rendille, and the Somalis • Labelle Prussin
4. Ceramics from the Upemba Depression: A Diachronic Study • Kanimba Misago
5. Objects and People: Relationships and Transformation in the Culture of the Bambala • Kazadi Ntole
PART II: CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES: PRESENTING SELF AND SOCIETY WITH OBJECTS
6. Sticks, Self, and Society in Booran Oromo: A Symbolic Interpretation • Aneesa Kassam and Gemetchu Megerssa
7. Material Narratives and the Negotiation of Identities through Objects in Malian Theatre • Mary Jo Arnoldi
8. The Consumption of an African Modernity • Michael Rowlands
9. Household Objects and the Philosophy of Igbo Social Space • Chike Aniakor
10. Hoes and Clothes in a Luo Household: Changing Consumption in a Colonial Economy, 1906-1936 • Margaret Jean Hay
PART III: LIFE HISTORIES: CHANGING INTERPRETATIONS OF OBJECTS AND MUSEUMS
11. The Passive Object and the Tribal Paradigm: Colonial Museography in French West Africa • Philip L. Ravenhill
12. Art, Politics, and the Transformation of Meaning: Bamum Art in the Twentieth Century • Christraud M. Geary
13. Mami Wata Shrines: Exotica and the Construction of Self • Henry John Drewal
14. Zaïrian Popular Painting as Commodity and as Communication • Bogumil Jewsiewicki
Contents
INTRODUCTION: Efficacy and Objects • Kris L. Hardin and Mary Jo Arnoldi
PART I: TECHNOLOGY AND THE PRODUCTION OF FORM
1. Technological Style and the Making of Culture: Three Kono Contexts of Production • Kris L. Hardin
2. Magical Iron Technology in the Cameroon Grassfields • Michael Rowlands and Jean-Pierre Warnier
3. When Nomads Settle: Changing Technologies of Building and Transport and the Production of Architectural Form among the Gabra, the Rendille, and the Somalis • Labelle Prussin
4. Ceramics from the Upemba Depression: A Diachronic Study • Kanimba Misago
5. Objects and People: Relationships and Transformation in the Culture of the Bambala • Kazadi Ntole
PART II: CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES: PRESENTING SELF AND SOCIETY WITH OBJECTS
6. Sticks, Self, and Society in Booran Oromo: A Symbolic Interpretation • Aneesa Kassam and Gemetchu Megerssa
7. Material Narratives and the Negotiation of Identities through Objects in Malian Theatre • Mary Jo Arnoldi
8. The Consumption of an African Modernity • Michael Rowlands
9. Household Objects and the Philosophy of Igbo Social Space • Chike Aniakor
10. Hoes and Clothes in a Luo Household: Changing Consumption in a Colonial Economy, 1906-1936 • Margaret Jean Hay
PART III: LIFE HISTORIES: CHANGING INTERPRETATIONS OF OBJECTS AND MUSEUMS
11. The Passive Object and the Tribal Paradigm: Colonial Museography in French West Africa • Philip L. Ravenhill
12. Art, Politics, and the Transformation of Meaning: Bamum Art in the Twentieth Century • Christraud M. Geary
13. Mami Wata Shrines: Exotica and the Construction of Self • Henry John Drewal
14. Zaïrian Popular Painting as Commodity and as Communication • Bogumil Jewsiewicki
