| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 222 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Material cultures
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Material cultures.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-218) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: photographs as objects / Elizabeth Edwards and Janice Hart -- Un beau souvenir du Canada: object, image, symbolic space / Joan M. Schwartz -- Ere the substance fade: photography and hair jewellery / Geoffrey Batchen -- Mixed box: the cultural biography of a box of 'ethnographic' photographs / Elizabeth Edwards and Janice Hart -- Making meaning: displaced materiality in the library and art museum / Glenn Willumson -- Making a journey: the Tupper scrapbooks and the travel they describe / Alison Nordstrom -- Photographic playing cards and the colonial metaphor: teaching the Dutch colonial culture / Susan Legene -- 'Under the gaze of the ancestors': photographs and performance in colonial Angola / Nuno Porto -- The photograph reincarnate: the dynamics of Tibet relationships with photography / Clare Harris -- 'Photo-cross': the political and devotional lives of a Romanian Orthodox photograph / Gabriel Hanganu -- Print Club photography in Japan: framing social relationships / Richard Chalfen and Mai Murui -- Photgraphic materiality in the age of digital reproduction / Joanna Sassoon. |
| Summary |
This innovative volume explores the idea that while photographs are images, they are also objects, and this materiality is integral to their meaning and use. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Photography in anthropology.
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Photography in anthropology. |
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Photographs -- Social aspects.
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Photographs. |
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Social aspects. |
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Material culture.
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Material culture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952-
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Hart, Janice, 1951-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Photographs objects histories. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004 0415254418 0415254426 (DLC) 2003017311 (OCoLC)52799795 |
| ISBN |
0203506499 (electronic book) |
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9780203506493 (electronic book) |
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0415254418 (Cloth) |
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0415254426 (Paper) |
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