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"This volume has much to recommend it -- providing fascinating and stimulating insights into many arenas of material culture, many of which still remain only superficially explored in the archaeological literature." -- Archaeological Review

"... a vivid introduction to the topic.... A glimpse into the unique and changing identities in an ever-changing world." -- Come-All-Ye

Fourteen interdisciplinary essays open new perspectives for understanding African societies and cultures through the contextualized study of objects, treating 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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. CONTENTS
  2. pp. v-vii
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  1. PREFACE
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. INTRODUCTION: Efficacy and Objects
  2. pp. 1-28
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  1. PART I. TECHNOLOGY AND THE PRODUCTION OF FORM
  1. 1. TECHNOLOGICAL STYLE AND THE MAKING OF CULTURE: Three Kono Contexts of Production
  2. pp. 31-50
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  1. 2. MAGICAL IRON TECHNOLOGY IN THE CAMEROON GRASSFIELDS
  2. pp. 51-72
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  1. 3. WHEN NOMADS SETTLE: Changing Technologies of Building and Transport and the Production of Architectural Form among the Gabra
  2. pp. 73-102
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  1. 4. CERAMICS FROM THE UPEMBA DEPRESSION: A Diachronic Study
  2. pp. 103-129
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  1. 5. OBJECTS AND PEOPLE: Relationships and Transformations in the Culture of the Bambala
  2. pp. 130-141
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  1. PART II. CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES: Presenting Self and Society with Objects
  1. 6. STICKS, SELF, AND SOCIETY IN BOORAN OROMO: A Symbolic Interpretation
  2. pp. 145-166
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  1. 7. MATERIAL NARRATIVES AND THE NEGOTIATION OF IDENTITIES THROUGH OBJECTS IN MALIAN THEATRE
  2. pp. 167-187
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  1. 8. THE CONSUMPTION OF AN AFRICAN MODERNITY
  2. pp. 188-213
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  1. 9. HOUSEHOLD OBJECTS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF IGBO SOCIAL SPACE
  2. pp. 214-242
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  1. 10. HOES AND CLOTHES IN A LUO HOUSEHOLD: Changing Consumption in a Colonial Economy, 1906–1936
  2. pp. 243-261
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  1. PART III. LIFE HISTORIES: Changing Interpretations of Objects and Museums
  1. 11. THE PASSIVE OBJECT AND THE TRIBAL PARADIGM: Colonial Museography in French West Africa
  2. pp. 265-282
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  1. 12. ART, POLITICS, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF MEANING: Bamum Art in the Twentieth Century
  2. pp. 283-307
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  1. 13. MAMI WATA SHRINES: Exotica and the Construction of Self
  2. pp. 308-333
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  1. 14. ZA
  2. pp. 334-355
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  1. CONTRIBUTORS
  2. pp. 356-358
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  1. INDEX
  2. pp. 359-369
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