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- catalog abstract "This remarkable and controversial book explores the ways in which colonial Europeans have been represented in African ritual art and drama. Through a profound re-examination of Western concepts of otherness and mimesis, the anthropologist and art historian Fritz Kramer shows that African images of Europeans - in sculpture, masquerades and, above all, spirit possession - are the reverse and also the counterpart of European images of the Other as savage, whether noble or. Ignoble. For Africans, Europeans belonged to the realm of nature, to a state of innocence. Rejecting the modernist view of African art as abstract, Kramer insists on its mimetic qualities. These rituals are representations of something experienced, although the experiences have been transformed into spirits. In ways which may echo nineteenth-century European realism, they reveal the power of the visible, of the telling, obsessive detail: a feather, a shirt, or the. Eponymous red fez which runs like a leitmotiv through spirit possession cults of the early colonial period. Just as one danced an ancestor or an animal, so one could dance a motor-car or an aeroplane, possessed by the spirit of the thing. The Red Fez is certainly a book of wonders but, more importantly, it is a study of wonderment. Fritz Kramer takes his readers through a hall of mirrors, in which can be found startling likenesses of ourselves and our culture. By. Different paths, Kramer leads us through another world back to our own, presenting a challenge to anthropology and indeed to social science as a whole.".
- catalog alternative "Rote Fes. English".
- catalog contributor b4188661.
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "1. The Asante and the people from the grasslands. The Objet trouve from Asante. The outsiders among the Tallensi. Digression on cultural heterogeneity. Digression on the mythologeme of the state of innocence. The female ancestors of the Tallensi. Moral topography in Asante -- 2. Concerning trans-Saharan convergences. The soul and the landscape. The power of the manifest. Spirit in its various embodiments -- 3. In the grip of another culture. The Shona and the people from the coast. The Shona and the community of ancestors. Digression on possession as celebration and charisma. Women and the tribes on the East Coast. The bori cult and public life. Women's culture and differentiation in Sudan. The Tonga and the world of the migrant worker. The Zulus, or from possession to exorcism. The politically conscious viewpoint -- 4. In the masks of strangers and the dead. The Pende, or festival and initiation. The figures of the mbuya play. The classic mbuya, and its analogy to the shave. Digression on the asymmetries of change. The masked comedies of the Anang and Afikpo. Mask possession among the Kalabari -- 5. The art of the possessed as fixation and allegory. The Cokwe and the sculpture of the possessed. The Cokwe and the images of the Portuguese. Digression on the will to verisimilitude. Digression on abstraction and empathy. The facade of the Fante posuban. Allegoric sculpture in Asante -- 6. The Guinea Coast and the woman from the water. The pact with the sea-creatures on the coast of Cameroon. Land as order and water as nature. From the water spirits to mammywater. The festival of mami wata in Togo -- 7. Trans-Saharan comparisons of mimesis. Alien spirit possession and ethnography. Mimetic and rational action. The interpretation of the alien by mimesis.".
- catalog description "Different paths, Kramer leads us through another world back to our own, presenting a challenge to anthropology and indeed to social science as a whole.".
- catalog description "Eponymous red fez which runs like a leitmotiv through spirit possession cults of the early colonial period. Just as one danced an ancestor or an animal, so one could dance a motor-car or an aeroplane, possessed by the spirit of the thing. The Red Fez is certainly a book of wonders but, more importantly, it is a study of wonderment. Fritz Kramer takes his readers through a hall of mirrors, in which can be found startling likenesses of ourselves and our culture. By.".
- catalog description "Ignoble. For Africans, Europeans belonged to the realm of nature, to a state of innocence. Rejecting the modernist view of African art as abstract, Kramer insists on its mimetic qualities. These rituals are representations of something experienced, although the experiences have been transformed into spirits. In ways which may echo nineteenth-century European realism, they reveal the power of the visible, of the telling, obsessive detail: a feather, a shirt, or the.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-284) and index.".
- catalog description "This remarkable and controversial book explores the ways in which colonial Europeans have been represented in African ritual art and drama. Through a profound re-examination of Western concepts of otherness and mimesis, the anthropologist and art historian Fritz Kramer shows that African images of Europeans - in sculpture, masquerades and, above all, spirit possession - are the reverse and also the counterpart of European images of the Other as savage, whether noble or.".
- catalog extent "xi, 292 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0860914658".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng ger".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Verso,".
- catalog spatial "Africa, Sub-Saharan".
- catalog spatial "Africa, Sub-Saharan.".
- catalog subject "303.48/26704 20".
- catalog subject "Art, African.".
- catalog subject "Art, Primitive Africa, Sub-Saharan.".
- catalog subject "BL482 .K713 1993".
- catalog subject "Europeans in African art.".
- catalog subject "Spirit possession Africa, Sub-Saharan History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Asante and the people from the grasslands. The Objet trouve from Asante. The outsiders among the Tallensi. Digression on cultural heterogeneity. Digression on the mythologeme of the state of innocence. The female ancestors of the Tallensi. Moral topography in Asante -- 2. Concerning trans-Saharan convergences. The soul and the landscape. The power of the manifest. Spirit in its various embodiments -- 3. In the grip of another culture. The Shona and the people from the coast. The Shona and the community of ancestors. Digression on possession as celebration and charisma. Women and the tribes on the East Coast. The bori cult and public life. Women's culture and differentiation in Sudan. The Tonga and the world of the migrant worker. The Zulus, or from possession to exorcism. The politically conscious viewpoint -- 4. In the masks of strangers and the dead. The Pende, or festival and initiation. The figures of the mbuya play. The classic mbuya, and its analogy to the shave. Digression on the asymmetries of change. The masked comedies of the Anang and Afikpo. Mask possession among the Kalabari -- 5. The art of the possessed as fixation and allegory. The Cokwe and the sculpture of the possessed. The Cokwe and the images of the Portuguese. Digression on the will to verisimilitude. Digression on abstraction and empathy. The facade of the Fante posuban. Allegoric sculpture in Asante -- 6. The Guinea Coast and the woman from the water. The pact with the sea-creatures on the coast of Cameroon. Land as order and water as nature. From the water spirits to mammywater. The festival of mami wata in Togo -- 7. Trans-Saharan comparisons of mimesis. Alien spirit possession and ethnography. Mimetic and rational action. The interpretation of the alien by mimesis.".
- catalog title "Rote Fes. English".
- catalog title "The red fez : art and spirit possession in Africa / Fritz Kramer ; translated by Malcolm Green.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".