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General Background Reading
Kwame Anthony Appiah, In My Father’s House: African in the philosophy of culture, London 1992
Frederick Cooper, Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State, Harvard 2014
Frederick Cooper, Africa since 1940: the past of the present, Cambridge 2002
John Parker and Richard Rathbone, African History: a very short introduction, Oxford, 2007
John Iliffe, Africans: the history of a continent, Second edition, Cambridge 2007.
Richard J. Reid, A history of modern Africa, 1800 to present, 2nd edition, Oxford 2011
Crawford Young, The Postcolonial state in Africa, Madison, 2012
Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings, Africanizing Knowledge: African Studies Across the Disciplines, New Brunswick 2002
Stanford University has a very good gateway to internet resources on Africa: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html
Readings for week 4 (October 1)
Susan Vogel , Dogon sculpture (in AFRICAN ARTS) – this is available, along with other readings on: http://www.learn.columbia.edu/africa/html/library.html
Patrick McNaughton and Diane Peirine, Art, Art History and the Study of Africa: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199846733/obo-9780199846733-0017.xml
Allen C Roberts, Arts of C Africa http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199846733/obo-9780199846733-0126.xml
(both of these are online in OXFORD BIBLIOGRAPHIES)
Questions:
How can we use the ‘art’ of precolonial Africa to think about political, social and moral systems on the continent and changes within these? What are the problems associated with the conceptualisation of objects as ‘art’, as ‘artefact’, as ‘totem’?
