Lukasa! (The Devil's Toy). African Inspirations and Western Objects

Authors

  • Drew Walker Department of Anthropology Columbia University New York

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21825/af.v12i4.5600

Abstract

This paper shows the encounter between an object found among the Luba of Zaire and the art historical treatment of it by western scholars. In this encounter certain tendencies are pointed out which on one hand point to a greatly unackowledged bias of western scholars in their regarding of foreign objects as art, and on the other hand may work to refigure those ways of seeing to form a richer understanding of memory, beauty and history in western scholarly practice. KEYS WORDS : object, memory, Gift (in its German and English senses à la Marcel Mauss) 

Author Biography

Drew Walker, Department of Anthropology Columbia University New York

Anthropology

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Published

1996-09-01

How to Cite

Walker, D. (1996). Lukasa! (The Devil’s Toy). African Inspirations and Western Objects. frika ocus, 12(4). https://doi.org/10.21825/af.v12i4.5600

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