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UNINA9910456810003321 |
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Autore |
Quanchi Max |
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Titolo |
Photographing Papua [[electronic resource] ] : representation, colonial encounters and imaging in the public domain / / by Max Quanchi |
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Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-19057-1 |
9786612190575 |
1-4438-0674-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (389 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Papuans - Papua New Guinea - History |
Ethnology - Papua New Guinea |
Photography in ethnology - Papua New Guinea |
Photography in historiography |
Photography - Papua New Guinea - History |
Documentary photography - Papua New Guinea |
Electronic books. |
Papua New Guinea History |
Papua New Guinea Description and travel |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-359) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. I. Introduction -- pt. II. Images, intentions and meanings -- pt. III. Images and dissemination. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Photographing Papua is a study of photography in the public domain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that southeastern New Guinea, known as British New Guinea and then as Papua when it became an Australian colony, was created as a geographical place through visual representation in illustrated magazines and newspapers, lavishly illustrated travelogues and mission hagiography, serial encyclopedia, lantern slides and postcards. Readers :knew"" Papua because many tho... |
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