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Title Anthropology and photography, 1860-1920 / edited by Elizabeth Edwards.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press in association with the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, 1992.

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 Moore Stacks  GN347 .A59 1992    Available  ---
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.
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.
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.
Photography in ethnology.
Great Britain.
History.
Ethnology -- Great Britain -- History.
Ethnology.
Indexed Term Anthropology Use of Photography
Added Author Edwards, Elizabeth, 1915-
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
Added Title Anthropology & photography
ISBN 0300051689