{"product_id":"african-appropriations-9780253016256","title":"African Appropriations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfrican Appropriations\u003c\/em\u003e is a highly engaging, rigorous, and creative work, and among the most provocative and compelling books I have read in years. It is extremely suitable for undergraduate or graduate instruction, and highly recommended.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e * H-Africa *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe text is jargon free, a pleasure to read, remarkably well researched, and enriched by 40 illustrations. . . . Highly recommended.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOverall, African Appropriations is an engaging, readable, creative, and well-researched piece of scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e * H-Material-Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfrican Appropriations is rich compendium of useful commentary on cultural and media forms that otherwise have received scattered treatment. It will certainly be a valuable resource for scholars and an accessible and interesting text for classrooms.\u003c\/p\u003e * African Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot only does [Krings] straddle different societies . . . he also ranges across a host of differing cultural forms: spirit possession, music, graphic novels, film, posters, 419 letters, photo novels, and stickers, among others. The result is, and this should be stressed, a genuinely innovative book unlike most others in either anthropology or African studies.\u003c\/p\u003e * American Ethnologist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Major Wicked: Embodying Cultural Difference\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Lance Spearman: An African James Bond\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Black Titanic: Pirating the White Star Liner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Vice and Videos: Kanywood under Duress\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Dar 2 Lagos: Nollywood in Tanzania\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Branding bin Laden: The Global \"War on Terror\" on a Local Stage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Master and Mugu: Orientalist Mimicry and Cybercrime\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. \"Crazy White Men\": Un\/doing Difference in African Popular Music\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoda: Mimesis and Media in Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400546001239,"sku":"9780253016256","price":56.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253016256.jpg?v=1730470949","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/african-appropriations-9780253016256","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}