TRIBAL ART TRAFFIC - Softcover

Corbey, Raymond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9068321978 ISBN 13: 9789068321975

Publisher: KIT Publishers, 2000

Synopsis

"Tribal Art Traffic" traces the movements of hundreds of thousands of masks, statues, amulets, shields, pieces of cloth, utensils, and weapons from overseas tribal cultures to and within North Atlantic societies, in colonial and post colonial times. While the focus is on the relatively small Low Countries and their huge overseas territories, the Belgian Congo and the Netherlands East Indies, related developments in three adjacent colonial powers, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom, are also covered, as are links to the United States.

This book charts the means and places through which tribal objects circulated and continue to circulate: colonial trading posts, missionary posts, attics and cellars, living rooms, museums, flea markets, monasteries, auction houses, artists' studios, private collections, and art galleries – are

In the second part of the book dealers, collectors, and curators relate their more recent experiences with objects-in-motion. This chronicle of European taste, trade and desire sketches the emergence of a western market for tribal art in the course of the twentieth century.

About this title

About the Author:

Raymond Corbey is attached to the Department of Philosophy of Tilburg University and the Department of Archaeology of Leiden University in the Netherlands. Most of his recent research and publications deal with the history and epistemology of anthropology and neighboring disciplines.

About this edition

• Publisher: KIT Publishers
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 9068321978
• ISBN 13: 9789068321975
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 255