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Je ne suis pas moi-même

Title
Je ne suis pas moi-même [electronic resource].
Published
London, UK : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource (51 min.).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013).
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
This edition in French and English with English subtitles.
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Summary
Shot in Cameroon and Brussels, Je ne suis pas moi-même examines the complex network surrounding the international market of African antiquities, and the contradictions in a European art market hungry for new tribal objects. Where do the African masks come from? What journey do these masks make before their unveiling in the windows of the biggest galleries or art collections in Europe? Who determines the economic and aesthetic value of these objects now that colonialism is supposedly dead? And then there's a continent called Africa, in need of economic resources and therefore willing to sell its cultural heritage or, if need be, to fake it. The authenticity of the objects becomes blurred when the people that once adored them start to sell them.
Other formats
Previously released as DVD.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
French
Added to Catalog
December 12, 2013
Series
Ethnographic video online ; volume 2
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