UID:
almafu_9959233227602883
Format:
1 online resource (267 p.)
ISBN:
1-136-47666-0
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1-136-47673-3
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1-315-01536-6
Series Statement:
Studies in visual culture ; volume 2
Content:
Zachary Kingdon here provides an in-depth account of the background, origin and development of the spirit figure sculptures which emerged during colonial times among the Makonde people of Mozambique.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Cosmology and power; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Makonde; The origins of Makonde ethnic identity; The regime of the Companhia do Nyassa; The cotton regime, 1938-6 1; FRELIMO and the liberation struggle; The Makonde diaspora in Tanzania; 2 Cosmology and the body; Mapiko masquerade; The paradox of the dancing dead; Tattooing: the ""mask of defiance""; Conclusion: mastery in the world; 3 Carvers and patrons; The carver in pre-colonial Makonde society; Nyekenya Nangundu and the origins of blackwoodcarving
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Colonial patronageMohamed Peera and the Dar es Salaam 'School'; 4 Apprenticeship; Fundi Hendrick Thobias; Carving lessons: the carving process; Carving shetani; Carving mawingu; Mpingo: the sculptural medium; 5 Spirits, affliction andexpression; Spirits and shetani sculpture: Hendrick's oeuvre; The iconography of spirit representation; Some cultural significances of spirits; Deprivation and expression; Spirit sculptures as objects of reflection; Spirit sculptures as instruments of mediation; 6 The role and position of the sculptor; The blackwood carver as migrant
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Samaki Likankoa and the first spirit figuresA category of the artist?; The position and project of the sculptor; 7 Realms of mastery and subjugation, instruments of mediation and passage; Originality, play and exchange: negotiating environments of confidence and anxiety; Artefacts, ontology and identification; The texture of play; 8 Conclusion The creative project; Mpingo and personhood; The creative project; Glossary; Bibliography; Subject Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-51101-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-27727-2
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781315015361
