Aesthetic Practices in African Tourism

ISBN-13: 9780367199920 / Angielski / Inna / 2023

Opis

Aesthetic Practices in African Tourism explores ‘Rastahood’, a community, youth culture, and new tourist art form created by young men on the margins of the Ghanaian economy as they came of age at the turn of the millennium

Spis treści

Introduction: I and I: Artmaking, Mobility, and Intercultural Reproduction

Chapter 1: Geography Is Destiny: Craft in Accra

Chapter 2: Men at Work: Craftwork, Masculinity, and Precarity

Chapter 3: From Elephants to Drums: Object, Performance, Mobility

Chapter 4: Styling the Rasta Self

Chapter 5: The Affective Labor of Crafting Freedom

Conclusion: In the Beckoning Elsewhere

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O autorze

Ruti Talmor is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College and Chair of the Intercollegiate Media Studies Program at the Claremont Colleges. As a cultural anthropologist, an art curator, and professor of media studies, Talmor’s interdisciplinary work centers how people use aesthetic objects and practices to craft a place for themselves in the world. This diverse but inter-related body of work sits at the intersection of the anthropology of art, media, and visual culture; the scholarship on migration, mobility, and global capitalism; gender and sexuality studies; and critical curatorial practice.  Talmor has been a fellow of the Getty Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, the McCracken Foundation, and the University of Michigan’s Center for Afroamerican and African Studies.