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Metamorphosis in the culture market of Niger

Davis, Elizabeth A.·1999·American Anthropologist
DOI 10.1525/aa.1999.101.3.485
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The banner of authenticity is falling in the contemporary market for non‐Western culture. Taking Tuareg artisanry in Niger as a case study, I show that the neocolonial Western habit of collecting “exotic” art objects is giving way to a more collaborative proclivity toward Western objects produced in “traditional” Tuareg style. While Tuareg artisans—adjusting to social and cultural upheavals attending the urbanization of their practice and the recent Tuareg separatist rebellion—are producing such hybrid “modern” objects, some Tuareg nobles, impoverished by those same changes, have begun painting representational images of a more “authentic” Tuareg culture. The nature of the competition between Tuareg artisans and nobles, as well as the complex cross‐identification between Tuaregs and their Western expatriate customers, illuminate a general perplexity about modernity in the contemporary Third World and indicate a transformation in the terms of its encounter with the West. [Tuaregs, art and artisanry, authenticity, expatriates, and modernity and tradition]

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  • As in other parts of the world, Tongan women adapt the objects in size, style, and function to what tourists expect, can carry away, and find use for.

    “As in other parts of the world (e.g. Davis 1999 ; Rasmussen 2003 ), T ongan women adapt the objects in size, style, and function to what tourists expect, can carry away, and find use for: for instance, table mats, baskets, and fans decorated with turtles and dolphins, maps of Tonga, and stylized figures drinking kava.”

    From When gifts become commodities: pawnshops, valuables, and shame in Tonga and the Tongan diaspora (2008) · cites this paper as Davis 1999

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Authors
Davis, E. A.
Affiliations
University of California, Berkeley (US)
Corresponding author
Davis, Elizabeth A.
Venue
American Anthropologist
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1999-09
Volume
101
Issue
3
Pages
485-501
ISSN
  • 0002-7294 (ISSN-L)
  • 1548-1433
DOI
10.1525/aa.1999.101.3.485
OpenAlex
W2125509518
Cited by
22
References
21
Citations by year
2021: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2012: 3
FWCI
3.60
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor, 3050 d)
Locations
American Anthropologist (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › African Studies and Geopolitics
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Cultural Identity and Heritage
Keywords
authenticity, exoticism, figurative painting, urbanization, tradition and modernity, East-West encounter

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