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Ethnographic collecting and African agency in early colonial West Africa : a study of trans-imperial cultural flows
Title:
Ethnographic collecting and African agency in early colonial West Africa : a study of trans-imperial cultural flows

Study of trans-imperial cultural flows

Contextualizing art markets

Contextualizing art markets.
Author:
Kingdon, Zachary, 1962- author.
ISBN:
9781501377884

9781501337925
Publication Information:
New York ; London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.
Physical Description:
xxvii, 305 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Series:
Contextualizing art markets

Contextualizing art markets.
General Note:
Paperback edition published 2021.
Contents:
Preface / Kathryn Brown -- Introduction -- Prologue: Western Africa, Africans, and Liverpool's Municipal Museum -- Arnold Ridyard and his assemblage -- Diasporic dialogues: the Sierra Leonean donors I -- Trans-imperial identities: the Sierra Leonean donors II -- Coastal 'kings': the Gold Coast donors I -- Coastal cosmopolitans: the Gold Coast donors II -- Museum meanings: regimes of classification, representation and display -- Epilogue.
Abstract:
The early collections from Africa in Liverpool's World Museum reflect the city's longstanding shipping and commercial links with Africa's Atlantic coast. A principal component of these collections is an assemblage of several thousand artefacts from western Africa that were transported to institutions in northwest England between 1894 and 1916 by the Liverpool steam ship engineer Arnold Ridyard. While Ridyard's collecting efforts can be seen to have been shaped by the steamers' dynamic capacity to connect widely separated people and places, his Methodist credentials were fundamental in determining the profile of his African networks, because they meant that he was not part of official colonial authority in West Africa.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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