Elizabeth Edwards: Raw Histories

Cover: 9781859734971 | Raw Histories | Photographs, Anthropology and Museums | Edwards | Buch

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Photographs have had an integral and complex role in many anthropological contexts, from fieldwork to museum exhibitions. This book explores how approaching anthropological photographs as 'history' can offer both theoretical and empirical insights into these roles. Photographs are thought to make problematic history because of their ambiguity and 'rawness'. In short, they have too many meanings. The author refutes this prejudice by exploring, through a series of case studies, precisely the potential of this raw quality to open up new perspectives. Taking the nature of photography as her starting point, the author argues that photographs are not merely pictures of things but are part of a dynamic and fluid historical dialogue, which is active not only in the creation of the photograph but in its subsequent social biography in archive and museum spaces, past and present. In this context, the book challenges any uniform view of anthropological photography and its resulting archives. Drawing on a variety of examples, largely from the Pacific, the book demonstrates how close readings of photographs reveal not only western agendas, but also many layers of differing historical and cross-cultural experiences. That is, photographs can 'spring leaks' to show an alternative viewpoint. These themes are developed further by examining the dynamics of photographs and issues around them as used by contemporary artists and curators and presented to an increasingly varied public. This book convincingly demonstrates photographs' potential to articulate histories other than those of their immediate appearances, a potential that can no longer be neglected by scholars and institutions.

Über den Autor

Elizabeth Edwards is Professor and Senior Research Fellow, University of the Arts London.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Observations from the Coal-Face Part I: Notes from the Archive 2 Exchanging Photographs, Making Archives 3 Photographing Objects Part II: Historical Inscriptions 4 Visualising History: Diamond Jenness's Photographs of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Massim, 1912, 5 Time and Space on the Quarter Deck: Two Samoan Photographs by Captain W. Acland 6 Professor Huxley's 'Well-considered Plan' 7 Re-enactment, Salvage Ethnography and Photography in the Torres Strait Part III: Reworkings 8 Rethinking Photography in the Ethnographic Museum 9 ]orma Puranen -Imaginary Homecoming-A Study in Re-engagement

Erscheinungsjahr:	2001
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781859734971
ISBN-10:	1859734979
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Edwards, Elizabeth
Redaktion:	Miller, Daniel Gilroy, Paul
Hersteller:	Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Elizabeth Edwards
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.05.2001
Gewicht:	0,421 kg

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