African art and the colonial encounter: inventing a global commodity

Introduction: colonial power and aesthetic practice

Part 1. Warriors. Maa warriorhood and British colonial discource.

Idoma warriorhood and the Pax Britannica

Part 2. Sculptors and smiths. Colonial rupture and innovation: the colonizer as inadvertent patron

Samburu smiths, Idoma maskmakers: power at a distance

Part 3. Masks, spears, the body. Mask and spear: art, thing, commodity

Warrior theatre and the ritualized body

Part 4. Commodities. Idoma sculpture: colonialism and the market for African art

Samburu encounters with modernity: spears as tourist souvenirs

Samburu warriors in Hollywood films: cinematic commodities

Reprise: the three C's: colonialism, commidities, and complex representations

Coda: from spears to guns in the North Rift.