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Since Its Beginnings, Photography Has Been A Valuable Resource For Anthropologists In The Recording Of Ethnographic Data. This Book, Published In Conjunction With The Royal Anthropological Institute (rai) London, Looks At The Significance And Relevance Of Still Photography In British Anthropology From About 1860 Until 1920. It Examines How Photography Provides Evidence Of The Past And How This Evidence Is Used In Conjunction With More Traditional Forms Of Anthropological Information. And It Considers The Reflexive And Critical Nature Of The Photographic Way Of Seeing Within Anthropology. The Book Opens With Five Substantial Essays On The Nature Of Photography, Visual Perception, Theoretical And Historical Approaches To Anthropological Photography, And The Photograph As A Document. These Are Followed By Twenty Shorter Essays By Leading Anthropologists And Historians With Special Interest In Visual Representation. The Essays Examine The Content And Historical Contexts Of A Range Of 157 Remarkable Photographs, Drawn Mainly From Rai Collections, Many Reproduced For The First Time. The Book As A Whole Establishes The Intellectual And Anthropological Frameworks For The Analysis Of Specif

Author

Edwards, Elizabeth, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press in association with the Royal Anthropological Institute, London

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300051841

Subjects

Sociology, History, Anthropology