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Bronze figure of an Iwoki Guild Member

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Description: Bronze figure of an Iwoki Guild Member
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Description: Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late...
Between them these two statements, both written in the late nineteenth century about different aspects of Benin culture, encapsulate the essential ambivalence of the European colonial response to material culture from West Africa and other colonies. These commentaries confusingly register an admiration of Benin culture according to western European aesthetic criteria, while simultaneously...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.7-28
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00307.2

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