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      Présentation Objects As Envoys Format Broché

       - Livre Encyclopédies, Dictionnaires

      Livre Encyclopédies, Dictionnaires - 01/03/2002 - Broché - Langue : Anglais

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    • Editeur : University Of Washington Press
    • Langue : Anglais
    • Parution : 01/03/2002
    • Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg
    • Nombre de pages : 208.0
    • Expédition : 912
    • ISBN : 0295981962



    • Résumé :

      In 1886, Queen Ranavalona III of the African island nation of Madagascar offered U.S. President Grover Cleveland two striking handwoven silk textiles. The American government later reciprocated with an autographed photographic portrait of the president. Although on the surface a straightforward diplomatic exchange, the objects used--and the ideas behind them--reveal a wealth of information about the culture and history of Madagascar, and its relations with the West.

      The essays in Objects as Envoys contextualize and explain the broader significance of this exchange, deftly interweaving discussions of cloth production, international diplomacy, and popular representations of Madagascar and the Malagasy people in Europe and the United States. Together they tell a fascinating story of the people and history of this island country.

      The first two essays provide a comprehensive survey of Madagascar's textiles, past and present. They examine the importance of cloth to the Malagasy, both as creative works of art and as objects imbued with great social and cultural significance. From simple cotton wrappers and raffia work shirts to delicately textured, vibrantly colored silk lama, textiles--the quintessential Malagasy gift--have been used in Madagascar to mark ethnic and gender identity, to indicate status and power relations, to create and renegotiate social ties, to serve as tribute to the dead, and to promote diplomatic overtures to foreign nations. When used as envoys, however, objects are likely to acquire new meanings, as recipients re-interpret and use them according to their own cultural understandings.

      The little-known history of American-Malagasy ties is explored through the compelling biography of John Lewis Waller, an African American born into slavery who, as the American consul to Madagascar from 1891 to 1894, both supported Madagascar's independence and dreamed of establishing an all-black colony there.

      The exchanges--and also the misunderstandings--that have characterized the meetings between Madagascar and Western nations and peoples are further examined through a study of the ways in which 19th-century photographs and other visual images were used by Westerners to create stereotypes of the Malagasy and by the Malagasy themselves to create and project identities of their own choosing.

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      Biographie:

      Christine Mullen Kreamer is a curator at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution. Sarah Fee , a research collaborator at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, has been conducting field research on weaving and social life in Madagascar since 1988 and is co-founder of the Tandroy Ethnographic Museum in Berenty, Madagascar. Other contributors include Zina Andrianarivelo, Mary Jo Arnoldi, Shirley E. Barnes, Christraud M. Geary, Edgar Krebs, Jean-Aim? Rakotoarisoa, and Wendy Walker.

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      Sommaire:

      Foreword by Zina Andrianarivelo-Razafy

      Foreword by Shirley E. Barnes

      Acknowledgments

      Objects as Envoys: an Introduction

      Madagascar: Background Notes

      Cloth in Motion: Madagascar's Textiles through History

      Gifts from the Queen: Two Malagasy Lamba Akotofahana

      Madagascar in the Minds of Foreigners: the case of United States Council John Lewis Waller, 1891-1895

      Views from Outside and Inside: Representations of madagascar and the Malagsy, 1658-1935

      Chronology of Main Events

      Glossary of Malagasy Terms

      References

      Contributors

      Index

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