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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456935003321

Titolo

Photography, anthropology and history : expanding the frame / / edited by Christopher Morton [and] Elizabeth Edwards

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-08110-2

1-315-60041-2

1-317-08109-9

1-282-34471-4

9786612344718

0-7546-9800-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EdwardsElizabeth <1952->

MortonChristopher A

Disciplina

306.4

Soggetti

Photography in ethnology

Photography in anthropology

Photography in historiography

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Historicizing Visual Anthropology; 1 'Distempered Daubs' and Encyclopaedic World Maps: The Ethnographic Significance of Panoramas and Mappaemundi; 2 Anthropology and the Cinematic Imagination; Part II Institutional Structures; 3 Salvaging Our Past: Photography and Survival; 4 Frozen Poses: Hamat'sa Dioramas, Recursive Representation, and the Making of a Kwakwaka'wakw Icon; Part III Fieldwork; 5 The Initiation of Kamanga: Visuality and Textuality in Evans-Pritchard's Zande Ethnography

6 'For Scientific Purposes a Stand Camera is Essential': Salvaging Photographic Histories in Papua7 Visual Methods in Early Japanese Anthropology: Torii Ryuzo in Taiwan; 8 Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Visual Anthropology in Early Twentieth-Century German Anthropology;



Part IV Indigenous Histories; 9 Faletau's Photocopy, or the Mutability of Visual History in Roviana; 10 John Layard long Malakula 1914-1915: The Potency of Field Photography; 11 'Just by Bringing These Photographs...': On the Other Meanings of Anthropological Images; Selected Reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

As current research rethinks the relationship between photography and anthropology, this volume will serve as a stimulus to this new phase of research as an essential text and methodological reference point in any course that addresses the relationship between anthropology and visuality.