This volume was part of series titled 'Contributions in Critical Museology and Material Culture' published by the Horniman Museum and Gardens. Included are the following papers: Introduction: Visual Culture and Creativity in Eastern Africa: Reviewing a neglected Branch of the Discipline (Hassan Arero and Zachary Kingdon); Creative Frontiers: Sculptural Innovation and Social Transformation in East Africa (Zachary Kingdon); Tracing Contours of Creativity in Pastorialist Visual Culture (Hassan Arero); Joy Adamson, The Peoples of Kenya and the Desire for Eden (Dominic Marner); Acts of Acquisition: Five Narratives of Collecting for a Museum of Ethnography (Wilhelm Ostberg); Not Really African? Kanga and Swahili Culture (Chris Spring); The Politics of Pattern: Interpreting Political and National Iconography on Kanga Cloth (Simon Clark); Mapiko Masquerades of the Makonde: performance and Historicity (Paolo Israel); and Luo Head-dresses: Researching Material Culture in Northwestern Kenya (Gilbert Oteyo).
East African Contours: Reviewing Creativity and Visual Culture (edited by Hassan Arero and Zachary Kingdon, 2005)
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Event poster: ILEA Horticultural Demonstrations at Horniman Gardens
Photograph of 'Part of the pipe shop, which produced over 250,000 pipes for the Lancaster'
Black and white medium format negative (scanned positive) side view of wooden church building
Black and white negative of boats moored on tree-lined river next to settlement, loading/unloading boat
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