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

6 african appropriations own are not necessarily stable entities or neutral technologies, which are used identically throughout ...

introduction 7 The Nigerian video industry is the most prolific and best-known example of such an industry in Africa (Haynes 200 ...

8 african appropriations recognize as ‘media’: that, in fact, local worlds are necessarily already the outcome of more or less s ...

introduction 9 a “mime.” As early as the era of Plato and Aristotle, whose writings form the basis of mimesis theory, the term’s ...

10 african appropriations “are only imitators; they copy images of virtue and the like, but the truth they never reach” (600e). ...

introduction 11 viewed as a creative practice aiming at transformation rather than mere reproduction (54–57). Through imitation, ...

12 african appropriations stricts his analysis to written representations, some of his exegetes have extended its meaning to app ...

introduction 13 example, in the context of the human capacity for producing “nonsensu- ous similarities” (such as those observab ...

14 african appropriations CONTACT AND COPY In his book Mimesis and Alterity, Michael Taussig (1993: xiii) defines the human mime ...

introduction 15 a copy of something means being in contact with that something, even if this contact is established only through ...

16 african appropriations performances by actors embodying fictitious people), therefore ignoring the mimesis of the first degre ...

introduction 17 and intellectual property (Boon 2010; Coombe 1998), and also features prominently in debates about the restituti ...

18 african appropriations sequences that I focus on particularly in this book. No doubt, legal issues are at stake when African ...

introduction 19 with the appropriator’s agency. Though I also subscribe to the notion of appropriation as an intermediary practi ...

20 african appropriations much my own conviction. In this book, I focus on the appropriation by African cultural producers of al ...

introduction 21 said to be of European descent. I trace the origins of these ritual copies of Eu ropea n ness to French colon ia ...

22 african appropriations equal measure by James Bond and the hard-boiled private eyes of Ameri- can films noir, African Film in ...

introduction 23 their original’s fame. Like most of the copies I discuss in this book, they are commodities which have been prod ...

24 african appropriations In Tanzania, I observed a case of contact and copy which prompted a local critique akin to concerns in ...

introduction 25 addressees. Within the ethno-religious politics of the Nigerian nation- state, images of bin Laden connected the ...