wyszukanych pozycji: 8
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Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image
ISBN: 9780252074127 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was a dancer, singer, actress, author, politician, militant, and philanthropist, whose images and cultural legacy have survived beyond the hundredth anniversary of her birth. Neither an exercise in postmodern deconstruction nor simple biography, Josephine Baker in Art and Life presents a critical cultural study of the life and art of the Franco-American performer whose appearances as the savage dancer Fatou shocked the world. Although the study remains firmly anchored in Josephine Baker s life and times, presenting and challenging carefully researched... Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was a dancer, singer, actress, author, politician, militant, and philanthropist, whose images and cultural legacy have ... |
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123,24 zł |
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Symbols of Change: Urban Transition in a Zambian Community
ISBN: 9780893910648 / Angielski / Twarda / 1981 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Based on a four-year longitudinal study of urban adaptation in Lusaka, Zambia, this book offers both a theoretical analysis and a case study of African urbanization as a social process. The author's unique approach to this topic lies in her exploration of city-life adjustment through the subjective perception of the new urbanites themselves. The book contains the original interview material and numerous photos of the extensive fieldwork.
Based on a four-year longitudinal study of urban adaptation in Lusaka, Zambia, this book offers both a theoretical analysis and a case study of Afr... |
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378,53 zł |
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The Messages of Tourist Art: An African Semiotic System in Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9781475718294 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Tourist art may be a billion dollar business. Nevertheless, such art is despised. What is worse, the "bad" culture is seen as driving out the "good. " Commer- cialization is assumed to destroy traditional arts and crafts, replacing them with junk. The process is seen as demeaning to artists in the traditional societies, who are seduced into a type of whoredom: unfeeling production of false beauty for money. The arts remain problematic for the social sciences. Sociology textbooks treat the arts as subordinate reflections of social forces, norms, or groups. An- thropology textbooks...
Tourist art may be a billion dollar business. Nevertheless, such art is despised. What is worse, the "bad" culture is seen as driving out the "good. "...
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193,19 zł |
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Black Paris: The African Writers' Landscape
ISBN: 9780252069352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Documents the struggles and successes of three generations of African writers as they strive to establish their artistic, literary, and cultural identities in France. This work explores African writing and identity in France from the early negritude movement and the founding of the Presence Africaine publishing house in 1947 to the mid-1990s.
Documents the struggles and successes of three generations of African writers as they strive to establish their artistic, literary, and cultural ident...
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179,80 zł |
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The New Religions of Africa
ISBN: 9780893910143 / Angielski / Twarda / 1979 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume is an important and original collection of firsthand field reports and essays on contemporary African cults and churches. Using comprehensive ethnographic information, this volume focuses on the importance of religion as an agent and symbol of social change in emerging African nations, and the changing roles of gender in African society.
This volume is an important and original collection of firsthand field reports and essays on contemporary African cults and churches. Using compreh... |
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378,53 zł |
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Terminal Signs: Computers and Social Change in Africa
ISBN: 9783110122213 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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539,68 zł |
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African Art Reframed: Reflections and Dialogues on Museum Culture
ISBN: 9780252043277 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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575,36 zł |
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African Art Reframed: Reflections and Dialogues on Museum Culture
ISBN: 9780252085192 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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112,97 zł |