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Colonial Inscriptions
Carolyn M. Shaw
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Description for Colonial Inscriptions
paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; HBTQ; HBTR; JFF; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.
In Kenyan colonialist imagery, two contrasting groups were ostracized and demonized, the Kikuyu and the Maasai. They were constructed by European colonialists as representations of the noble savage and the deceitful servant, in a fashion similar to American representation of the Black slave and the "wild" Indian. Carolyn Martin Shaw examines this imagery in the works of historians and ethnographers, and in novels and films. Through the works of Louis Leakey, Jomo Kenyatta, Elspeth Huxley and Isak Dinesen, along with her own ethnographic research, Martin Shaw investigates the discourses which shaped inequalities, rivalries, and fantasies in colonial Kenya. She explores ... Read more
In Kenyan colonialist imagery, two contrasting groups were ostracized and demonized, the Kikuyu and the Maasai. They were constructed by European colonialists as representations of the noble savage and the deceitful servant, in a fashion similar to American representation of the Black slave and the "wild" Indian. Carolyn Martin Shaw examines this imagery in the works of historians and ethnographers, and in novels and films. Through the works of Louis Leakey, Jomo Kenyatta, Elspeth Huxley and Isak Dinesen, along with her own ethnographic research, Martin Shaw investigates the discourses which shaped inequalities, rivalries, and fantasies in colonial Kenya. She explores ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816625253
SKU
V9780816625253
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