African Art in TransitCambridge University Press, 27 Ιαν 1994 - 220 σελίδες African Art in Transit is an absorbing account of the commodification and circulation of African art objects in the international art market. Christopher Steiner's analysis of the role of the African middleman in linking those who produce and supply works of art in Africa with those who buy and collect so-called 'primitive' art in Europe and America is based on extensive field research among the art traders in Côte d'Ivoire. Steiner provides a lucid interpretation which reveals not only a complex economic network with its own internal logic and rules, but also an elaborate process of transcultural valuation and exchange. By focusing directly on the intermediaries in the African art trade, he unveils a critical new perspective on how symbolic codes and economic values are mediated in the context of shifting geographic and cultural domains. He questions conventional definitions of authenticity in African art by demonstrating how the categories 'authentic' and 'traditional' are continually redefined. |
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Commodity outlets and the classification of goods | 16 |
The division of labor and the management of capital | 40 |
An economy of words bargaining and the social production of value | 61 |
The political economy of ethnicity in a plural market | 80 |
The quest for authenticity and the invention of African art | 100 |
Cultural brokerage and the mediation of knowledge | 130 |
African art and the discourses of value | 157 |
Notes | 165 |
References | 195 |
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Abidjan aesthetic African art market African art objects African art trade African traders Akan Alhadji American Anthropology antiquités art dealers art traders artifacts artists auction authenticity bargaining process Baule Bouaké Burkina Faso capital carved carver clients collection colonial commercial commodity context Côte d'Ivoire Coulibaly cultural Danané Dioula display Dogon economic ethnic groups European exchange fake Félix Houphouët-Boigny Festimask figures French Ghana Hausa trader Hotel itinerant suppliers Ivoirian kola nut Korhogo lèk Lobi Madu market-place traders masks merchandise merchants middleman Museum Muslim negotiation Nigeria pieces Plate Plateau market place potassium permanganate production profit purchase ràngu sculpture seller Senufo slingshots social sold stall stallholders statues storehouse Susan Vogel symbolic Tanko tourist art trade beads traditional Translated Treichville quarter University Press urban village West Africa Western buyer Western collectors Wolof Wolof trader wooden Yaaro Yamoussoukro York