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Ethnographic collecting and African agency in early colonial West Africa : a study of trans-imperial cultural flows / Zachary Kingdon.
Penn Museum Library N7398 .K54 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kingdon, Zachary, 1962- author.
- Series:
- Contextualizing art markets
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art museums--Acquisitions.
- History.
- Art--Collectors and collecting.
- Art, West African.
- Colonies.
- Commerce.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Commerce--Africa, West.
- Great Britain.
- Art, West African--History.
- Art--Collectors and collecting--England--History.
- Art.
- Art museums--Acquisitions--England--History.
- Art museums.
- World Museum Liverpool.
- England.
- West Africa.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 305 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.
- Contents:
- 2 Prologue: Western Africa, Africans and Liverpool's Municipal Museum p. 11
- After the Slave Trade p. 11
- The Niger Expedition p. 15
- Joseph Mayer and the Inauguration of Liverpool's Ethnography Collection p. 21
- Between Empire and Trade p. 26
- 3 Arnold Ridyard and his Assemblage p. 39
- Ridyard's Family Background and Methodist Identity p. 41
- Maritime Career, Collecting Practices and Social Networks p. 42
- Acquisition and Generosity p. 54
- Ridyard's Dissenting Interests p. 57
- 4 Diasporic Dialogues: The Sierra Leonean Donors I p. 75
- W. R. Renner: West African Capitalist p. 78
- Krio diaspora: Collecting and Culture in the Early Twentieth Century p. 85
- Women Donors: Mrs W. E. Johnson and Miss B. Yorke p. 95
- The Muslim Donors: Colonial Exclusion, African Regional Trajectories p. 105
- 5 Trans-imperial Identities: The Sierra Leonean Donors II p. 117
- Freetown Architecture and Krio Self-orientation p. 118
- Krio Male Elites p. 124
- 'Upbuilding' and Empire p. 128
- Claudius Dyonisius Hotobah During p. 137
- 6 Coastal 'Kings': The Gold Coast Donors I p. 147
- Ababio IV, Amonu V, Acquah II and Prince Tackie p. 151
- Kojo Ababio IV, Accra Political Player p. 159
- Potters of Accra's Western Plains p. 165
- Ambiguous 'Traditionalist': E. W. Quartey-Papafio p. 173
- Dr Edward Mettle, 'Man of Mystery and Power' p. 180
- 7 Coastal Cosmopolitans: The Gold Coast Donors II p. 199
- Frederick Lutterodt, West African Photographer p. 200
- Arthur Robert Chinery, Euro-Ga Professional p. 206
- John Mensah Sarbah. 'Cosmopolitan Patriot' p. 220
- J. P. Brown, C. J. Bannerman and Other 'Cosmopolitan Patriots' p. 230
- Mobile Elites: C. J. Reindorf, H. van Hien and Others p. 237
- 8 Museum Meanings: Regimes of Classification, Representation and Display p. 247
- Exhibiting Order p. 248
- Rearranging and Re-evaluating Liverpool Museum's African Collection in the 1930s p. 255
- Erosion and Occlusion: The Ridyard Assemblage at the Liverpool Museum, 1905 to 1968 p. 260.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781501337925
- 1501337920
- OCLC:
- 1089016320
- Publisher Number:
- 99980201146
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