Christraud M Geary
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 103417 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Christraud M Geary |
| NOMBRES | Christraud M |
| APELLIDO | Geary |
| FIRMA | GEARY C M |
| AFILIACIONES | Smithsonian Institution |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 138 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Fragile Legacies
In the past thirty years, research and writings about the oeuvre and practice of professional African photographers have gained momentum. Today these luminaries, among them Jonathan Adagogo Green, Seydou Keita, and J.D. ‘Okhei Ojeikere, take their place in the global history of photography. Exhibitions devoted to the practice of African image makers have multiplied in recent years, reflecting the increased interest in their photographs, which als…
From Context to Text
It is evident that, as the study of photography in Africa opens up, many other fascinating topics will emerge. Photographs by Africans, of Africans, and of African arts in and out of context will come to receive the fuller attention they deserve (Cole and Ross 1985a:28).In the late nineteenth and throughout the twentieth centuries, the repositioning of photographs as art rather than as documents relying on mechanical reproduction coincided with t…
Roots and Routes of African Photographic Practices
Fotofieber. Bilder aus Westund Zentralafrika. Die reisen von Carl Passavant 1883-1885
Africa
The Incidental Photographer
L'A. propose quelques reflexions a propos de la pratique photographique de Roy Sieber sur ses terrains africains. Il decrit d'abord brievement les points forts de ces images et les situe dans le contexte historique de la pratique photographique dans le domaine des recherches sur l'art africain, qui s'est notamment appuyee sur des conventions ethnographiques et museologiques. Il examine ensuite la relation de la pratique photographique de Sieber a…
Mission and Photography
African Material Culture
Photographing in the Cameroon Grassfields, 1970 to 1984
L'A. presente un certain nombre de photographies prises entre 1970 et 1984 au cours d'une recherche ethnographique sur les chefferies de Weh, d'Esu et d'Aghem dans la region des Grassfields du Cameroon. Commentant brievement sa demarche photographique et l'attitude de la population locale envers les documents iconographiques, il propose cette contribution comme source documentaire sur l'art des Grassfields : Architecture, encadrement de porte, ve…
Delivering Views
International Postcards: Their History, Production, and Distribution (Circa 1895 to 1915) Chapter 4 2. Souvenirs of Imperialism: World's Fair Postcards Chapter 5 3. Symbols, Souvenirs, and Sentiments: Postcard Imagery of Plains Indians, 1898-1918 Chapter 6 4. Japonisme and American Postcard Visions of Japan: Beauties and Workers, Cherry Blossoms and Silkworms Chapter 7 5. Transformed Images: Photographers and Postcards in the Pacific Islands Chap…
African Material Culture
African Material Culture
African Material Culture
INTRODUCTION: Efficacy and Objects Kris L. Hardin and MaryEJo Arnoldi PART I: TECHNOLOGY AND THE PRODUCTION OF FORM 1. Technological Style and the Making of Culture: Three Kono Contexts of Production Kris L. Hardin 2. Magical Iron Technology in the Cameroon Grassfields Michael Rowlands and Jean-Pierre Warnier 3. When Nomads Settle: Changing Technologies of Building and Transport and the Production of Architectural Form among the Gabra, the Rendil…
The Voyage of King Njoya's Gift
Early Images from Benin at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
Christraud M. Geary, Early Images from Benin at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, African Arts, Vol. 30, No. 3, Special Issue: The Benin Centenary, Part 1 (Summer, 1997), pp. 44-53+93
African Material Culture
An Africa-centered approach to the role of objects in the construction of identity, social formations, and culture.
African Crossroads
Pawa
Anthropology and Photography, 1860‐1920
Anthropology and Photography, 1860‐1920. Edited by Elizabeth Edwards. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, in Association with the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, 1992. 275 pp., 160 illus., bibliography, index. $35.00 (cloth
Two Days in Mushenge Eliot Elisofon's Images of the Kuba (1947)
Missionary Photography
The first time I presented a paper on old postcards and someone came up afterward to mention his own collection, I was surprised. Now I expect it. Most of us who admit to collecting cards from Chad, Nigeria, C6te d'Ivoire, or wherever, have probably never given these pictures of colonial detritus a second thought. The products of mass, popular culture, they are considered by mainstream art historians as degraded versions of high art photography. …
Old Pictures, New Approaches
the journal when it comes to the photographic products of its authors, to the insightful memoir by G. I. Jones about his own photography in Nigeria (Jones 1985). An essay by Paul Jenkins and me about photographs from Africa in the Basel Mission Archive seemed a little lost, but not entirely out of place (Jenkins & Geary 1985). Research on historical photographs from Africa was in its infancy. This issue of African Arts revisits photography in Afr…
African Reflections
Art of Central Africa
Art and Political Process in the Kingdoms of Bali-Nyonga and Bamum (Cameroon Grassfields)
Christraud M. Geary, Art and Political Process in the Kingdoms of Bali-Nyonga and Bamum (Cameroon Grassfields), Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 22, No. 1 (1988), pp. 11-41
African Material Culture
INTRODUCTION: Efficacy and Objects Kris L. Hardin and MaryEJo Arnoldi PART I: TECHNOLOGY AND THE PRODUCTION OF FORM 1. Technological Style and the Making of Culture: Three Kono Contexts of Production Kris L. Hardin 2. Magical Iron Technology in the Cameroon Grassfields Michael Rowlands and Jean-Pierre Warnier 3. When Nomads Settle: Changing Technologies of Building and Transport and the Production of Architectural Form among the Gabra, the Rendil…
Missionary Photography
The first time I presented a paper on old postcards and someone came up afterward to mention his own collection, I was surprised. Now I expect it. Most of us who admit to collecting cards from Chad, Nigeria, C6te d'Ivoire, or wherever, have probably never given these pictures of colonial detritus a second thought. The products of mass, popular culture, they are considered by mainstream art historians as degraded versions of high art photography. …
Photographs as Materials for African History
In recent years there has been a growing interest in source materials on African history in African and European archives. The registration of documents and the methodology used in their interpretation have become a major issue of many scholars. While much progress has been made concerning the written materials, another category of archival documents has received little attention. These are pictorial records in general and historical photographs …
African Material Culture
African Material Culture
Impressions of the African past
This paper applies two modes of interpretation to ethnographic photographs taken between 1884 and 1915 in the then German colony Cameroon (West Africa). The pictures are discussed in light of the recent anthropological debate on constructing knowledge about the Other, be it in written or pictorial form, that perpetuates and reinforces conventional stereotypes. The maker and his or her preconceptions are the main focus of this type of research. Th…
African Material Culture
Photographs from Africa in the Basel Mission Archive
Anthropology and Photography, 1860‐1920
Anthropology and Photography, 1860‐1920. Edited by Elizabeth Edwards. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, in Association with the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, 1992. 275 pp., 160 illus., bibliography, index. $35.00 (cloth
Images from Bamum
Images from Bamum
From Context to Text
It is evident that, as the study of photography in Africa opens up, many other fascinating topics will emerge. Photographs by Africans, of Africans, and of African arts in and out of context will come to receive the fuller attention they deserve (Cole and Ross 1985a:28).In the late nineteenth and throughout the twentieth centuries, the repositioning of photographs as art rather than as documents relying on mechanical reproduction coincided with t…
Early Images from Benin at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
Christraud M. Geary, Early Images from Benin at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, African Arts, Vol. 30, No. 3, Special Issue: The Benin Centenary, Part 1 (Summer, 1997), pp. 44-53+93
Old Pictures, New Approaches
the journal when it comes to the photographic products of its authors, to the insightful memoir by G. I. Jones about his own photography in Nigeria (Jones 1985). An essay by Paul Jenkins and me about photographs from Africa in the Basel Mission Archive seemed a little lost, but not entirely out of place (Jenkins & Geary 1985). Research on historical photographs from Africa was in its infancy. This issue of African Arts revisits photography in Afr…
African Reflections
Glanzend wie Gold
The Idiom of War in the Bamum Court Arts
Steinskulpturen der Nyonyosi aus Ober-Volta
Skulpturen aus Kamerun
Grassfields Working Group
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The Art of Benin
Things of the Palace
Recent Working Papers of the African Studies Center
Photographs from Africa in the Basel Mission Archive
Photographs as Materials for African History
In recent years there has been a growing interest in source materials on African history in African and European archives. The registration of documents and the methodology used in their interpretation have become a major issue of many scholars. While much progress has been made concerning the written materials, another category of archival documents has received little attention. These are pictorial records in general and historical photographs …
Mandou Yenou
Things of the Palace
Arts Anciens du Cameroun
Mandou Yenou; Photographies du Pays Bamoum, Royaume Ouest Africain, 1902-1915
Art and Political Process in the Kingdoms of Bali-Nyonga and Bamum (Cameroon Grassfields)
(1988). Art and Political Process in the Kingdoms of Bali-Nyonga and Bamum (Cameroon Grassfields) Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 11-41
African Art
Images from Bamum
The Colonial Harem
Images from Bamum
Echanges, Developpement et Hierarchies Dans le Bamenda Pre-Colonial (Cameroun)
Presentation regionale des Grassfields et du plateau de Bamenda. Examen systematique des echanges regionaux (fer, huile de palme, betail, grains, artisanat), des echanges lointains du cote de la Benoue, de l'Adamawa, des ports de l'Atlantique (sel, noix de kola, etoffes, ivoires, esclaves, fer). Organisation politique et hierarchie sociale des societes locales
Glanzend wie Gold
On the Savannah”
Several photographs taken by German and other European photographers in Cameroon during the German colonial period (1884–1915) became very popular with the German public. One of these images shows King Njoya, the ruler of the Bamum kingdom, on his famous beaded two-figure throne during an audience in late December 1911 or early January 1912 (fig. 1). He receives one of his barefooted subjects, who assumes the typical Bamum pose of reverence and a…
Brandenburg Sources for West African History 1680-1700
Glänzend wie Gold
Impressions of the African past
This paper applies two modes of interpretation to ethnographic photographs taken between 1884 and 1915 in the then German colony Cameroon (West Africa). The pictures are discussed in light of the recent anthropological debate on constructing knowledge about the Other, be it in written or pictorial form, that perpetuates and reinforces conventional stereotypes. The maker and his or her preconceptions are the main focus of this type of research. Th…
Missionary Photography
The first time I presented a paper on old postcards and someone came up afterward to mention his own collection, I was surprised. Now I expect it. Most of us who admit to collecting cards from Chad, Nigeria, C6te d'Ivoire, or wherever, have probably never given these pictures of colonial detritus a second thought. The products of mass, popular culture, they are considered by mainstream art historians as degraded versions of high art photography. …
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