Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009.

Description:

xix, 290 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Distempered Daubs' and encyclopaedic world maps : the ethnographic significance of panoramas and mappaemundi / Alison Griffiths -- Anthropology and the cinematic imagination / David MacDougall -- Salvaging our past : photography and survival / Elizabeth Edwards -- Frozen poses : Hamat'sa dioramas, recursive representation, and the making of a Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw icon / Aaron Glass -- The initiation of Kamanga : visuality and textuality in Evans-Pritchard's Zande ethnography / Christopher Morton -- 'For scientific purposes a stand camera is essential' : salvaging photographic histories in Papua / Joshua A. Bell -- Visual methods in early Japanese anthropology : Torii Ryuzo in Taiwan / Ka F. Wong -- Theodor Koch-Grünberg and visual anthropology in early twentieth-century German anthropology / Paul Hempel -- Faletau's photocopy, or the mutability of visual history in Roviana / Christopher Wright -- John Layard long Malakula 1914-1915 : the potency of field photography / Anita Herle -- 'Just by bringing these photographs ... ' : on the other meanings of anthropological images / Laura Peers and Alison K. Brown.

Summary:

"Photography, Anthropology and History examines the complex historical relationship between photography and anthropology, and in particular the strong emergence of the contemporary relevance of historical images. Thematically organized, and focusing on the visual practices developed within anthropology as a discipline, this book brings together a range of contemporary and methodologically innovative approaches to the historical image within anthropology. Importantly, it also demonstrates the ongoing relevance of both the historical image and the notion of the archive to recent anthropological thought. 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." -- BOOK PUBLISHER WEBSITE.

ISBN:

9780754679097 (hardback ; alk. paper)
0754679098 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9780754698005 (ebook)
0754698009 (ebook)

Subject:

Photography in anthropology.
Photography in ethnology.
Photography in historiography.
Anthropology Technique.
Archaeology Technique.
Photographie en anthropologie.
Photographie en ethnologie.
Photographie en historiographie.
Anthropologie Technique.
Archéologie Technique.
73.03 methods and techniques of ethnology.
Ethnography.
Photography.
Cultural anthropology.
Documentary photography.
Visuell antropologi.
Fotografi inom antropologin.
Vetenskaplig fotografi.
Fotografi historia.

Added entries:

Morton, Christopher A.
Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269801
Call No.: BIB 202236
Status: Available