| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 222 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Material cultures |
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Material cultures.
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-218) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Photography in anthropology.
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Photographs -- Social aspects
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Material culture.
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material culture (discipline)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Material culture
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Photography in anthropology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952-
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Hart, Janice, 1951-
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| ISBN |
0203506499 |
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9780203506493 |
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9780415254410 |
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0415254418 |
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9780415254427 |
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0415254426 |
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1134523572 |
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9781134523573 |
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0203598717 |
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9780203598719 |
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