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Insignificant Things
Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic
Taschenbuch von Matthew Francis Rarey
Sprache: Englisch

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In Insignificant Things Matthew Francis Rarey traces the history of the African-associated amulets that enslaved and other marginalized people carried as tools of survival in the Black Atlantic world from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Often considered visually benign by white Europeans, these amulet pouches, commonly known as "mandingas," were used across Africa, Brazil, and Portugal and contained myriad objects, from herbs and Islamic prayers to shells and coins. Drawing on Arabic-language narratives from the West African Sahel, the archives of the Portuguese Inquisition, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European travel and merchant accounts of the West African Coast, and early nineteenth-century Brazilian police records, Rarey shows how mandingas functioned as portable archives of their makers' experiences of enslavement, displacement, and diaspora. He presents them as examples of the visual culture of enslavement and critical to conceptualizing Black Atlantic art history. Ultimately, Rarey looks to the archives of transatlantic slavery, which were meant to erase Black life, for objects like the mandingas that were created to protect it.
In Insignificant Things Matthew Francis Rarey traces the history of the African-associated amulets that enslaved and other marginalized people carried as tools of survival in the Black Atlantic world from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Often considered visually benign by white Europeans, these amulet pouches, commonly known as "mandingas," were used across Africa, Brazil, and Portugal and contained myriad objects, from herbs and Islamic prayers to shells and coins. Drawing on Arabic-language narratives from the West African Sahel, the archives of the Portuguese Inquisition, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European travel and merchant accounts of the West African Coast, and early nineteenth-century Brazilian police records, Rarey shows how mandingas functioned as portable archives of their makers' experiences of enslavement, displacement, and diaspora. He presents them as examples of the visual culture of enslavement and critical to conceptualizing Black Atlantic art history. Ultimately, Rarey looks to the archives of transatlantic slavery, which were meant to erase Black life, for objects like the mandingas that were created to protect it.
Über den Autor
Matthew Francis Rarey is Associate Professor of Art History at Oberlin College.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Significance, Survival, and Silence 1
1. Labels 31
2. Contents 72
3. Markings 124
4. Revolts 171
Epilogue 208
Notes 217
Works Cited 249
Index 275
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Kunstgeschichte
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478019855
ISBN-10: 1478019859
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rarey, Matthew Francis
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Matthew Francis Rarey
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.05.2023
Gewicht: 0,446 kg
Artikel-ID: 124041446
Über den Autor
Matthew Francis Rarey is Associate Professor of Art History at Oberlin College.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Significance, Survival, and Silence 1
1. Labels 31
2. Contents 72
3. Markings 124
4. Revolts 171
Epilogue 208
Notes 217
Works Cited 249
Index 275
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Kunstgeschichte
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478019855
ISBN-10: 1478019859
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rarey, Matthew Francis
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Matthew Francis Rarey
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.05.2023
Gewicht: 0,446 kg
Artikel-ID: 124041446
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