Metamorphosis in the Culture Market of Niger
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2462265 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth A Davis (0000-0002-4984-0209), Elizabeth A Olmsted‐davi (0000-0001-9457-1848, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 485-501 |
| Publication date | 1999-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/aa.1999.101.3.485 |
| OpenAlex | W2125509518 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 13 |
The banner of authenticity is falling in the contemporary market for non-Western culture. Taking Tuareg artisanry in Niger as a case study, I show that the neocolonial Western habit of collecting "exotic" art objects is giving way to a more collaborative proclivity toward Western objects produced in "traditional" Tuareg style. While Tuareg artisans-adjusting to social and cultural upheavals attending the urbanization of their practice and the recent Tuareg separatist rebellion-are producing such hybrid "modern" objects, some Tuareg nobles, impoverished by those same changes, have begun painting representational images of a more "authentic" Tuareg culture. The nature of the competition between Tuareg artisans and nobles, as well as the complex cross-identification between Tuaregs and their Western expatriate customers, illuminate a general perplexity about modernity in the contemporary Third World and indicate a transformation in the terms of its encounter with the West. [Tuaregs, art and artisanry, authenticity, expatriates, and modernity and tradition
Aesthetics · Art · Habit · Literature · Modernity · Political science · Sociology · Style (visual arts · African history and culture analysis · African Studies and Geopolitics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Law
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Metamorphosis in the Culture Market of Niger
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,59 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2021 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |