Crowd-Pleasing Potluck
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Crowd-Pleasing Potluck by Francine Halvorsen
The Gift explores how objects of prestige contributed to cross-cultural exchanges between Africans and Europeans during the Atlantic slave trade. An eighteenth-century silver ceremonial sword, commissioned in the port of La Rochelle by French traders, was offered as a gift to an African commercial agent in the port of Cabinda (Kingdom of Ngoyo), in twenty-first century Angola. Slave traders carried this object from Cabinda to Abomey, the capital of the Kingdom of Dahomey in twenty-first century's Republic of Benin, from where French officers looted the item in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on a rich set of sources in French, English, and Portuguese, as well as artifacts housed in museums across Europe and the Americas, Ana Lucia Araujo illuminates how luxury objects impacted European-African relations, and how these economic, cultural, and social interactions paved the way for the European conquest and colonization of West Africa and West Central Africa.| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9781594864742 |
| ISBN 10 | 1594864748 |
| Titel | Crowd-Pleasing Potluck |
| Autor | Francine Halvorsen |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Rodale Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2007-10-02 |
| Seitenanzahl | 496 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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