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Photography in Africa Ethnographic Perspectives

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ISBN-10: 1847010458

ISBN-13: 9781847010452

Edition: 2012

Authors: Richard Vokes, Chris Wingfield, Christopher Morton, Corinne Kratz, Erin Haney

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This collection of studies in African photography examines, through a series of empirically rich historical and ethnographic cases, the variety of ways in which photographs are produced, circulated, and engaged across a range of social contexts. In so doing, it elucidates the distinctive characteristics of African photographic practices and cultures, vis-à-vis those of other forms of 'vernacular photography' worldwide. In addition, these studies develop a reflexive turn, examining the history of academic engagement with these African photographic cultures, and reflecting on the distinctive qualities of the ethnographic method as a means for studying such phenomena. The volume critically…    
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Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Publication date: 6/21/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 7.40" wide x 10.24" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English

Dr Christopher Morton is Curator of Photograph and Manuscript Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum and Departmental Lecturer in Visual and Material Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. He is co-editor (with Elizabeth Edwards) of Photography, Anthropology and History: Expanding the Frame (2009), and the author of numerous articles on photography and anthropology, especially in Africa.

Erin Haney is a Visiting Scholar at the National Museum of African Art, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, and a curator and author working on several projects dealing with historical and contemporary photographers from the continent.

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Notes Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Photography & the Ethnographic Encounter
Double alienation: Evans-Pritchard's Zande & Nuer photographs in comparative perspective
Photographing 'the Bridge': Product & process in the analysis of a social situation in non-modern Zululand
Frontier photographs: Northern Kenya & the Paul Baxter collection
Memories of a Blue Nile home: The photographic moment & multimedia linkage
Picturing the Nation: Photography, Memory & Resistance
Emptying the gallery: The archive's fuller circle
'Ca bousculait!: Democratization & photography in Senegal
'A once & future Eden': Gorongosa National Park & the making of Mozambique
Political billboards as contact zones: Reflections on urban space, the visual & political affect in Kabila's Kinshasa
The Social Life of Photographs
On 'the ultimate patronage machine�: Photography & substantial relations in rural South-western Uganda
'The terror of the feast�: Photography, textiles & memory in weddings along the East African Coast
Ceremonies, sitting rooms & albums: How Okiek displayed photographs in the 1990s
Index