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Je ne suis pas moi-même.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Forgery of antiquities--Cameroon.
- Forgery of antiquities.
- Antiques business--Cameroon.
- Antiques business.
- Antiques business--Belgium.
- Cameroon--Antiquities--Collectors and collecting.
- Cameroon.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (51 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2009.
- Language Note:
- In French.
- In English.
- Original language in French.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- Shot in Cameroon and Brussels, Je ne suis pas moi-même examines the complex network surrounding the international market of African antiquities, and the contradictions in a European art market hungry for new tribal objects. Where do the African masks come from? What journey do these masks make before their unveiling in the windows of the biggest galleries or art collections in Europe? Who determines the economic and aesthetic value of these objects now that colonialism is supposedly dead? And then there's a continent called Africa, in need of economic resources and therefore willing to sell its cultural heritage or, if need be, to fake it. The authenticity of the objects becomes blurred when the people that once adored them start to sell them.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013).
- Recorded Cameroon Recorded Brussels 0000.
- OCLC:
- 849668437
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