Description |
xi, 275 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
Note |
Spine title: Anthropology & photography. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Photography : theories of realism and convention / Terence Wright -- The photographic document : photographs as primary data in anthropological enquiry / Joanna C. Scherer -- Surveying the field of view : the making of the RAI photographic collection / Roslyn Poignant -- The parallel histories of anthropology and photography / Christopher Pinney -- Some notes on the attempt to apply photography to anthropometry during the second half of the nineteenth century / Frank Spencer -- Science visualized : E.H. Man in the Andaman Islands / Elizabeth Edwards -- British popular anthropology : exhibiting and photographing the other / Brian Street -- Representing the other : the North American Indian / Brian W. Dippie -- Of 'peculiar carvings and architectural devices' : photographic ethnohistory and the Haida Indians / Margaret B. Blackman. |
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George Hunt, Kwakiutl photographer / Ira Jacknis -- The fading of appearances : anthropological observations on a nineteenth-century photograph / H.L. Seneviratne -- Focal length as an analogue of cultural distance / Martha Macintyre and Maureen MacKenzie -- Underneath the banyan tree : William Crooke and photographic depictions of caste / Christopher Pinney -- Whose pose is it? : a photo-ethnographic conundrum from South India / Nicholas J. Bradford -- The yellow bough : River's use of photography in The Todas / Paul Hockings -- 'Very loveable human beings' : the photography of Everard im Thurn / Donald Tayler -- Photographs of the Sankuru and Kasai River basin expedition undertaken by Emil Torday (1876-1931) and M.W. Hilton Simpson (1881-1936) / Jan Vansina -- Two portraits of Auresian women / Naziha Hamouda. |
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Photography, power and the Southern Nuba / James C. Faris -- The battle for control of the camera in late-nineteenth century Western Zambia / Gwyn Prins -- Te Tokanga-nui-a-noho meeting house / Anne Salmond -- The representation of Trucanini / Vivienne Rae-Ellis -- The political image : the impact of the camera in an ancient independent African state / Richard Pankhurst -- Two Māori portraits : adoption of the medium / Judith Binney -- Historical images--changing audiences / Iskander Mydin -- A political primer on anthropology/photography / James C. Faris -- Appendix : Photographic techniques : an outline. |
Subject |
Photography in ethnology -- Great Britain -- History.
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Photography in ethnology. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Ethnology -- Great Britain -- History.
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Ethnology. |
Indexed Term |
Anthropology Use of Photography |
Added Author |
Edwards, Elizabeth, 1915-
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Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Added Title |
Anthropology & photography |
ISBN |
0300051689 |
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