Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAfrican Appropriations 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.
* H-Africa *
The text is jargon free, a pleasure to read, remarkably well researched, and enriched by 40 illustrations. . . . Highly recommended.
* Choice *
Overall, African Appropriations is an engaging, readable, creative, and well-researched piece of scholarship.
* H-Material-Culture *
African 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.
* African Studies Review *
Not 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.
* American Ethnologist *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Major Wicked: Embodying Cultural Difference
2. Lance Spearman: An African James Bond
3. Black Titanic: Pirating the White Star Liner
4. Vice and Videos: Kanywood under Duress
5. Dar 2 Lagos: Nollywood in Tanzania
6. Branding bin Laden: The Global "War on Terror" on a Local Stage
7. Master and Mugu: Orientalist Mimicry and Cybercrime
8. "Crazy White Men": Un/doing Difference in African Popular Music
Coda: Mimesis and Media in Africa
Notes
References
Films
Index
