World on the horizon : Swahili arts across the Indian Ocean
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Meier, Prita
, [HerausgeberIn]
Purpura, Allyson , [HerausgeberIn] Alpers, Edward A. , [MitwirkendeR] |
|---|---|
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Champaign, Illinois :
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion,
[2018]
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| Umfang/Format: |
384 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781883015497 1883015499 |
| Schlagworte: | |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Acknowledgments / Kathleen Harleman, Prita Meier and Allyson Purpura
- Guest foreword / His Excellency Ambassador Robinson Njeru Githae
- Provocations from the coast: toward a networked history of Swahili Coast Arts / Prita Meier and Allyson Purpura
- At home, at sea: onboard a dhow in the Western Indian Ocean / Nidhi Mahajan
- Through the Black Country, the sources of the Thames around the Great Shires of Lower England and down the Severn River to the Atlantic Ocean / Allan deSouza
- The Waraqa: the biography of an obligation / Fahad Bishara
- From shore to shore: people, places, and objects between the Swahili Coast and Lake Tanganyika / Stephen J. Rockel
- Thoughts on navigating Swahili horizons / Edward A. Alpers
- The Sultana in New York: a Zanaibari vessel between two worlds / Jeremy Prestholdt
- The "Colonial Moment" in the lives of objects from the Swahili Coast / Sarah Longair
- The many narratives of the Kiti cha enzi: unresolved strands of dispersal and meaning around the Indian Ocean / Nancy Um
- Reflections on the artistry and history of Swahili carved doorframes in the collection of the Lamu Museum / Athman Hussein
- Plural semiotic visions on the Swahili Coast / Janet McIntosh
- Swahili permutations: ngoma and identity in the Lamu Archipelago / Rebecca Gearhart Mafazy
- Beyond consumption: aesthetic glorious deeds and the generation of translocal society on the Swahili Coast / Paola Ivanov
- On the mimetic qualities of bowls on the medieval Swahili Coast / Jeffrey Fleisher
- Beyond the betweens: the Swahili Coast as sensed from the hinterland / Allen F. Roberts
- Cloth's many waterways: Indian Ocean textiles and the deep histories of exchange / Pedro Machado
- The art of the trade: merchant and production networks of kanga cloth in the colonial era / MacKenzie Moon Ryan
- The inscribed object: the textures and textuality of writing in Eastern Africa / Ann Biersteker
- Photography as a wish-fulfilling machine: photo studios on the East African Coast / Heike Behrend
- The Swahili world: where the horizons meet / Abdul Sheriff
- Checklist of the exhibition
- Contributor biographies.
