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“Africanness” as a Professional Trading Chip: Contemporary African Artists as Producers and Secondary Arbiters in the Gatekeeping Process

Description:

How can gatekeeping theory in the circulation of cultural objects, including knowledge production, inform the way cultural sociology investigates the role of the producer and the cultural object as “gated” entities? Using the case of producers working under the rubric of “Contemporary African art” to investigate opportunities and restrictions to...

Keyword:

trading chip, boundary object, Africanness, and Contemporary African art

Subject:

Communications and the Arts and Social Sciences

Creator:

Matlhare, Sakhile

Contributor:

Fine, Gary, Griswold, Wendy, and Berzock, Kathleen

Owner:

Sakhile Matlhare

Language:

English

Date Uploaded:

07/11/2017

Date Modified:

07/11/2017

Date Created:

2017

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

https://doi.org/10.21985/N20H2F