Product Description: Photographer Michael Katakis has spent the last twenty-five years traveling around the world with a camera and a journal. While collaborating with his wife, social anthropologist Kris Hardin, Katakis’s perceptive work has spanned continents and cultures...read more

Product Description: "African Material Culture" unites fourteen interdisciplinary essays that open new perspectives for understanding African societies and cultures through the contextualized study of objects. Research by an international group of scholars, including anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians, historians, and linguists treats everything from the production of material objects to the meaning of sticks, masquerades, household tools, clothing, and the television set in the contemporary repertoire of African material culture...read more