Photography, Anthropology and History: Expanding the Frame

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Contents: Introduction, Elizabeth Edwards and Christopher Morton Part 1 Historicizing Visual Anthropology: 'Distempered daubs' and encyclopaedic world maps: the ethnographic significance of panoramas and mappaemundi, Alison Griffiths Anthropology and the cinematic imagination, David MacDougall. Part 2 Institutional Structures: Salvaging our past: photography and survival, Elizabeth Edwards Frozen poses: Hamat'sa dioramas, recursive representation, and the making of a Kwakwaka'wakw icon, Aaron Glass. Part 3 Fieldwork: 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-Grunberg and visual anthropology in early 20th-century German anthropology, Paul Hempel. Part 4 Indigenous Histories: 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 Selected reading Index.

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