African Dream Machines: Style, Identity and Meaning of African Headrests

by Anitra Nettleton

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African Dream Machines takes African headrests out of the category of functional objects and into the more rarefied category of 'art' objects. Styles in African headrests are usually defined in terms of western art and archaeological discourses, but this book interrogates these definitions of style and demonstrates the shortcomings of defining a single formal style model as exclusive to a single ethnic group.
Among the artefacts made by southern...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1868144585

ISBN13:9781868144587

Release Date:October 2007

Publisher:Wits University Press

Length:487 Pages

Weight:2.47 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.8" x 8.8"

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