Ethnographic collecting and African agency in early colonial West Africa : a study of trans-imperial cultural flows /: a study of trans-imperial cultural flows. (2019)
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- Book
- Title:
- Ethnographic collecting and African agency in early colonial West Africa : a study of trans-imperial cultural flows /: a study of trans-imperial cultural flows. (2019)
- Main Title:
- Ethnographic collecting and African agency in early colonial West Africa : a study of trans-imperial cultural flows
- Further Information:
- Note: Zachary Kingdon.
- Authors:
- Kingdon, Zachary, 1962-
- Contents:
- List of IllustrationsList of Colour PlatesAcknowledgements1. IntroductionApproachStructure and Outline2. Prologue: Western Africa, Africans, and Liverpool's Municipal MuseumAfter the Slave TradeThe Niger ExpeditionJoseph Mayer and the Inauguration of Liverpool's Ethnography CollectionBetween Empire and Trade Conclusion3. Arnold Ridyard and his Assemblage Ridyard's Family Background and Methodist IdentityMaritime Career, Collecting Practices and Social NetworksAcquisition and Generosity Ridyard's Dissenting InterestsConclusion4. Diasporic Dialogues: The Sierra Leonean Donors I W. R. Renner, West African CapitalistKrio Diaspora: Collecting and Culture in the Early Twentieth CenturyWomen Donors: Mrs W. E. Johnson and Miss B Yorke The Muslim Donors: Colonial Exclusion, African Regional Trajectories Conclusion5. Trans-Imperial Identities: The Sierra Leonean Donors II Freetown, Architecture, and Krio Self-OrientationKrio Male Elites'Upbuilding' and EmpireClaudius D. Hotobah DuringConclusion6. Coastal 'Kings': The Gold Coast Donors I Ababio IV, Amonu V, Acquah II, and Prince TackieKojo Ababio IV, Accra Political PlayerPotters of Accra's Western PlainsAmbiguous 'Traditionalist': E. W. Quartey-PapafioDr. Edward Mettle, 'Man of Mystery and Power'Conclusion7. Coastal Cosmopolitans: The Gold Coast Donors IIFrederick Lutterodt, West African PhotographerArthur Robert Chinery, Euro-Ga Professional John Mensah Sarbah, 'Cosmopolitan Patriot'J. P. Brown, C. J. Bannerman and otherList of IllustrationsList of Colour PlatesAcknowledgements1. IntroductionApproachStructure and Outline2. Prologue: Western Africa, Africans, and Liverpool's Municipal MuseumAfter the Slave TradeThe Niger ExpeditionJoseph Mayer and the Inauguration of Liverpool's Ethnography CollectionBetween Empire and Trade Conclusion3. Arnold Ridyard and his Assemblage Ridyard's Family Background and Methodist IdentityMaritime Career, Collecting Practices and Social NetworksAcquisition and Generosity Ridyard's Dissenting InterestsConclusion4. Diasporic Dialogues: The Sierra Leonean Donors I W. R. Renner, West African CapitalistKrio Diaspora: Collecting and Culture in the Early Twentieth CenturyWomen Donors: Mrs W. E. Johnson and Miss B Yorke The Muslim Donors: Colonial Exclusion, African Regional Trajectories Conclusion5. Trans-Imperial Identities: The Sierra Leonean Donors II Freetown, Architecture, and Krio Self-OrientationKrio Male Elites'Upbuilding' and EmpireClaudius D. Hotobah DuringConclusion6. Coastal 'Kings': The Gold Coast Donors I Ababio IV, Amonu V, Acquah II, and Prince TackieKojo Ababio IV, Accra Political PlayerPotters of Accra's Western PlainsAmbiguous 'Traditionalist': E. W. Quartey-PapafioDr. Edward Mettle, 'Man of Mystery and Power'Conclusion7. Coastal Cosmopolitans: The Gold Coast Donors IIFrederick Lutterodt, West African PhotographerArthur Robert Chinery, Euro-Ga Professional John Mensah Sarbah, 'Cosmopolitan Patriot'J. P. Brown, C. J. Bannerman and other 'Cosmopolitan Patriots'Mobile Elites: C. J. Reindorf, H. Van Hien and othersConclusion8. Museum Meanings: Regimes of Classification, Representation and Display Exhibiting OrderRe-arranging and Re-evaluating the Liverpool Museum African Collection in the 1930s Erosion and Occlusion: The Ridyard Assemblage at the Liverpool Museum, 1905 to 1968ConclusionEpilogueReferencesIndex. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (some color)
- Subjects:
- 709.66
Art of indigenous peoples
Art, West African
Art museums -- Acquisitions -- England -- History
Art objects -- Collectors and collecting -- England
Art objects -- Collectors and collecting -- Africa, West
ART / History / General
Art -- Museum Studies
Art -- African
Art -- History -- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Colonial art
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Commerce -- Africa, West
Africa, West -- History -- 1884-1960
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781501337932
1501337939 - Related ISBNs:
- 1501337920
9781501337925 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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