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Photography, Anthropology and History : Expanding the Frame.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2009Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (311 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317081098
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Photography, Anthropology and HistoryDDC classification:
  • 301.0208
LOC classification:
  • GN34.3.P45 .P49 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
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 Papua -- 7 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.
Summary: 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.
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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 Papua -- 7 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.

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.

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