Journal for Art Market Studies (JAMS)
The Journal for Art Market Studies (JAMS) is a peer-reviewed open-access journal for current international research on the art market of all periods. The articles are published in English.
Published by
Forum Kunst und Markt / Centre for Art Market Studies
www.fokum-jams.org
NINTH ISSUE
Africa: Trade, Traffic and Collections
Volume 4, Number 1, 2020
Photo of the collection of Chief Ekolla (Eholla); Ethnologisches Museum, SMB, design: Amichai Green Grafik.
Guest Editor: Felicity Bodenstein
The issue considers the exponential growth of an export market for cultural objects from the African continent since the middle of the nineteenth century, from the first episodes of commercial and military colonialism through to the dramatic rise from the 1890s onwards.
Table of Contents
Susanne Meyer-Abich
Editorial
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Felicity Bodenstein
Africa: Trade, Traffic, Collections
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Zoe Cormack
Violence, Globalization and the Trade in “ethnographic” Artefacts in nineteenth-century Sudan
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Jan Hüsgen
Colonial Expeditions and Collecting – The Context of the “Togo-Hinterland” Expedition of 1894/1895
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Richard Tsogang Fossi
Itinerary of a Cameroon Cross River Collection in Art Market Networks. An Analysis of Transaction Correspondence between Hamburg-Berlin-Leipzig
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Léa Saint-Raymond, Elodie Vaudry
The vanishing paths of African artefacts: Mapping the Parisian auction market for “primitive” objects in the interwar period
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Alexandre Girard-Muscagorry
Zing–Foumban–Paris: Tracing a Mumuye mask from Nigeria to France
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Silvie Memel-Kassi
The Illicit Circulation of Ivorian Collections: Challenges and Prospects
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Book Review by Felicity Bodenstein
Yaëlle Biro, Fabriquer le regard: Marchands, réseaux, et objets africains à l’aube du XXe siècle
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Book Review by Julien Bondaz
Zachary Kingdon, Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa. A Study of Trans-Imperial Cultural Flows
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