African Material Culture

INDEX

IHD€H Abraham, Arthur, 48n.9 Achebe, Chinua, 215-16, 239 Achievement: modernity and evaluation of success among Bamenda of Cameroon, 189-212; and Igbo household objects, 226-27, 235 Adams, Marie Jeanne, 14, 23n.l0 Adan, Amina, 82, 86 Advertising, and popular painting in West Africa, 350n.2 Aesthetics: as approach to African art in early twentieth century, 4-5; of domestic architecture among nomadic groups of East Africa, 93-95; of Igbo household objects, 234-38; popular culture and classification of arts in ZaIre, 347-48 Africa, objects and European construction of image of, 2-4, 5-6, 20, 298. See also African material culture ; specific countries and ethnic groups African American Institute, 304n.13 African Arts (publication), 23-24n.13 African material culture: history of as academic discipline, 1-9; case studies as framework for future study of, 922 . See also Material culture -case studies of: technological style and contexts of production among I(ono of Sierra Leone, 31-47; ironworking technology in Cameroon Grassfields, 51-69; technology of architecture among Gabra, Rendille, and Somali nomads, 73-98; analysis of ceramics from Upemba Depression of Central Africa, 103-28; objects and Bambala culture of ZaIre, 13040 ; sticks and construction of identity in Booran Oromo society, 14564 ; identity and objects in puppet masquerade theatre of Mali, 167-85; modernity and identity among Bamenda of Cameroon, 188-212; social space and household objects among Igbo, 214-40; hoes and clothing in Luo household of colonial I(enya, 243-57; and colonial museography in French West Africa, 261-79; art and politics of beaded two-figure thrones of Barnum kingdom, 283303 ; Mami Wata shrines and construction of self, 308-30; urban society and ZaIrian popular painting, 334-50 Age, and division of labor in I(ono society , 46 Agriculture: patterns of production among rural I(ono of eastern Sierra Leone, 33, 34-35, 45-47, 48n.3; connection of with ironworking in West Africa, 70n.7; impact of on pottery production, 117, 127; colonialism and Luo households of I(enya, 243-57 Altars: household objects and Igbo ancestral , 225-26, 235; Mami Wata shrines and construction of self, 30830 Anderson, Martha, 331n.8 Andrews, I(weku, 24n.16 Aniakor, Chike, 18 Anthropology: dichotomy between form and context in analyses of material culture, 1-2; trends in study of material culture, 6-7; economic and construction of model of African household, 130; tribal paradigm in French colonial, 266-70. See also Ethnography ; Material culture; Museums and museology Architecture: building and transport technologies of nomadic groups of East Africa, 15, 73-98; plans and conceptualization of Igbo domestic, 18, 216-21, 225-30, 236 Arens, William, 9, 17, 24n.14 Arnoldi, Mary Jo, 17 Art: view of African objects as, 8; European study of African in early twentieth century, 23n.l0; museums and thrones of Barnum kingdom as, 283- 360 Art (continued) 303. See also Artists; Commodification ; Market; Painting Art history: dichotomy between form and context in analyses of material culture, 1-2; enlergence of African art as field of study within, 7-8 Artists: appropriation of African forms by European avant garde, 3-4; absence of in ethnographic investigations of French colonial period, 269 Ashanti, tourist art of, 309 Austen, Ralph, 70n.7 Authenticity, emphasis on in studies of the arts, 8-9 Avery, Donald, 51 Azande, magic of, 68 Baboa (Central Africa), pottery techniques of, 114-15 Bafia (Cameroon), ceramics of, 32 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 328, 336, 346 Bakweri (Cameroon), 331n.8 Balumbe (Central Africa), 112, 113 Bamana (Mali), masquerade theatre and ethnic identity of, 17, 168-85 Bambala (ZaIre), objects and culture of, 15-16, 130-40 Bambuba (Central Africa), pottery techniques of, Ill, 114-16 Bamenda (Cameroon), modernity and construction of identity among, 1718 , 188-212 Bamileke (Cameroon), 62, 199 Barnum kingdom (Cameroon), art and politics in museum acquisition of thrones of, 20, 283-303 Barnum Palace Museum (Cameroon), 293-98 Bandibu (Central Africa), 116 Bantu, birth practices of, 32 Baoto (Central Africa), 112 Barley, Nigel, 24n.15, 31, 34 Bartels, Lambert, 156, 160 Bassa (Liberia), 310 Bassar (Togo), smelting industry of, 61 Bateke (Central Africa), 116 Batswa (Central Africa), 112, 113 Baule (West Africa), 267, 268, 269 Baxter, Paul, 157, 159 Bazin, Jean, 266, 279n.l Belgium, colonialism in ZaIre, 341-42, 347 Belief systems: and spatial orientation of nomadic architecture, 91; Mami Index Wata as transcultural phenomenon, 327. See also Cosmology; Religion Ben-Amos, Paula Girshick, 4-5,10-11, 22n.2, 23n.12, 24n.16 Benveniste...