Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.