Text of the first William Fagg Memorial Lecture, a series founded to commemorate the African interests of the BM's Keeper of Ethnography between 1969 and 1974. The title refers to a Yoruba proverb that suggests that we look beyond what is easily observed if we are to understand something. Only if art is placed in an African intellectual context, argues the speaker, can we hope to fully appreciate it. A modern reflection on the `social life of things' which will be of interest to many theoreticians.
- ISBN10 0861591054
- ISBN13 9780861591053
- Publish Date 1 December 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 January 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint British Museum Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 21
- Language English