African Expressive Cultures : African Appropriations : Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media

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AFRICAN APPROPRIATIONS ...

African Expressive Cultures Patrick McNaughton, editor Associate editors Catherine M. Cole Barbara G. Hoffman Eileen Julien Kass ...

Indiana University Press Bloomington and Indianapolis MATTHIAS KRINGS CULTURAL DIFFERENCE, MIMESIS, and MEDIA AFRICAN APPROPRIAT ...

This book is a publication of Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 East 10th ...

CONTENTS Introduction Acknowledgments and Preface vii The Wicked Major: Embodying Cultural Difference Lance Spearman: The ...

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vii Introduction Acknowledgments and Preface vii t h i s b o ok presents material I gathered during the past twenty years spent ...

viii Acknowledgments and Pr eface Abdulkadir Maje, and Kabiru Maje. In this neighborhood, I was in no way the only Bature, as “E ...

Acknowledgments and Pr eface ix eventually headed a project researching the negotiation of culture through video movies and Bong ...

x Acknowledgments and Preface whose clever reading of scam letters inspired my own. I am also grateful to Jan Budniok, who gave ...

Acknowledgments and Pr eface xi allowed me to photograph her collection of bin Laden posters; Johannes Harnischfeger always shar ...

xii Acknowledgments and Preface and otherwise, and the tolerance they showed despite my outlandish field of study still command ...

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1 S Introduction on e f r i da y mor n i ng in August 2009, beautiful choral voices filled the air of the Kamunyonge Seventh-day ...

2 african appropriations that it highlights some of the myriad ways a single cultural product may be appropriated—that is, inter ...

introduction 3 numerous attempts to save the concept, I doubt that “culture” can any longer serve anthropology well as an analyt ...

4 african appropriations The cassette which I bought in 2006 in Dar es Salaam and which in- spired me to travel, in search of th ...

introduction 5 blind to the presence and use of modern media among the people they studied. Media were associated with the socie ...