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Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa: A Study of Trans-Imperial Cultural Flows: Contextualizing Art Markets

Autor Dr Zachary Kingdon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 iun 2021
The early collections from Africa in Liverpool's World Museum reflect the city's longstanding shipping and commercial links with Africa's Atlantic coast. A principal component of these collections is an assemblage of several thousand artefacts from western Africa that were transported to institutions in northwest England between 1894 and 1916 by the Liverpool steam ship engineer Arnold Ridyard. While Ridyard's collecting efforts can be seen to have been shaped by the steamers' dynamic capacity to connect widely separated people and places, his Methodist credentials were fundamental in determining the profile of his African networks, because they meant that he was not part of official colonial authority in West Africa. Kingdon's study uncovers the identities of many of Ridyard's numerous West African collaborators and discusses their interests and predicaments under the colonial dispensation. Against this background account, their agendas are examined with reference to surviving narratives that accompanied their donations and within the context of broader processes of trans-imperial exchange, through which they forged new identities and statuses for themselves and attempted to counter expressions of British cultural imperialism in the region. The study concludes with a discussion of the competing meanings assigned to the Ridyard assemblage by the Liverpool Museum and examines the ways in which its re-contextualization in museum contexts helped to efface signs of the energies and narratives behind its creation.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501377884
ISBN-10: 1501377884
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 34 colour and 90 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Seria Contextualizing Art Markets

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

First major study that explores the agency and agendas of Africans who contributed to museum ethnography collections in Britain

Notă biografică

Zachary Kingdon is Curator of African Collections at National Museums Liverpool, UK.

Cuprins

List of IllustrationsList of Colour PlatesAcknowledgements1. IntroductionApproachStructure and Outline2. Prologue: Western Africa, Africans, and Liverpool's Municipal MuseumAfter the Slave TradeThe Niger ExpeditionJoseph Mayer and the Inauguration of Liverpool's Ethnography CollectionBetween Empire and Trade Conclusion3. Arnold Ridyard and his Assemblage Ridyard's Family Background and Methodist IdentityMaritime Career, Collecting Practices and Social NetworksAcquisition and Generosity Ridyard's Dissenting InterestsConclusion4. Diasporic Dialogues: The Sierra Leonean Donors I W. R. Renner, West African CapitalistKrio Diaspora: Collecting and Culture in the Early Twentieth CenturyWomen Donors: Mrs W. E. Johnson and Miss B Yorke The Muslim Donors: Colonial Exclusion, African Regional Trajectories Conclusion5. Trans-Imperial Identities: The Sierra Leonean Donors II Freetown, Architecture, and Krio Self-OrientationKrio Male Elites'Upbuilding' and EmpireClaudius D. Hotobah DuringConclusion6. Coastal 'Kings': The Gold Coast Donors I Ababio IV, Amonu V, Acquah II, and Prince TackieKojo Ababio IV, Accra Political PlayerPotters of Accra's Western PlainsAmbiguous 'Traditionalist': E. W. Quartey-PapafioDr. Edward Mettle, 'Man of Mystery and Power'Conclusion7. Coastal Cosmopolitans: The Gold Coast Donors IIFrederick Lutterodt, West African PhotographerArthur Robert Chinery, Euro-Ga Professional John Mensah Sarbah, 'Cosmopolitan Patriot'J. P. Brown, C. J. Bannerman and other 'Cosmopolitan Patriots'Mobile Elites: C. J. Reindorf, H. Van Hien and othersConclusion8. Museum Meanings: Regimes of Classification, Representation and Display Exhibiting OrderRe-arranging and Re-evaluating the Liverpool Museum African Collection in the 1930s Erosion and Occlusion: The Ridyard Assemblage at the Liverpool Museum, 1905 to 1968ConclusionEpilogueReferencesIndex

Recenzii

Kingdon's timely efforts help to challenge our understanding of UK museums and their histories. Close archival reading and attention to complex socio-economic context illuminates the material and intellectual contributions of a fascinating group of West African individuals. This is essential reading for scholars of museums and collections, of West Africa and beyond.
With impressive command of highly original and hitherto unused sources, Kingdon breaks with the culturalist essentialisations that reduce African history to a tale of unnamed powerless 'Africans' dominated by European imperialists. While never losing sight of how power inequalities influenced interactions and negotiations, Kingdon's book is a history of named individuals whose characters and strategies are reconstructed in their full complexity and, at times, ambiguity. Lucidly written and engaging, this book is not only a major contribution to historical knowledge, but also an absolute pleasure to read.