Author: Landau, Paul S. & Deborah D. Kaspin; editors:
Title: Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2002). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xvi,380 pp. Textual photo illustrations.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 12 papers. Includes: T. Burke "'Our Mosquitoes Are Not So Big': Images & Modernity in Zimbabwe"; D. Bunn "The Sleep of the Brave: Graves as Sites & Signs in the Colonial Eastern Cape"; N.R. Hunt "Tintin & the Interruptions of Congolese Comics"; T. Olaniyan "Cartooning Nigerian Anticolonial Nationalism"; P.S. Landau "Empires of the Visual: Photography & Colonial Administration in Africa"; H.N. Mustafa "Portraits of Modernity:Fashioning Selves in Dakarois Popular Photography"; H.J. Drewal "Mami Wata & Santa Marta: Imag(in)ing Selves & Others in Africa & the Americas"; R.J. Gordon " 'Captured on Film': Bushmen & the Claptrap of Performative Primitives"; C. Hodeir "Decentering the Gaze at French Colonial Exhibitions"; P. Skotnes "The Politics of Bushman Representations"; P.B. Girshick "Omada Art at the Crossorads of Colonialism"; E. Gable "Bad Copies: The Colonial Aesthetic & th Manjaco-Portuguese Encounter"; D.D. Kaspin "Conclusion: Signifying Power in Africa".

Keywords: Visual Anthropology, African Mass Media, Photography, Social Theory, Sociology Africa, Art Criticism, Colonialism, Colonial History, Postcolonial