Main entry:

Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952-

Title & Author:

Raw histories : photographs, anthropology and museums / Elizabeth Edwards.

Publication:

Oxford : Berg, 2001.

Description:

xiii, 270 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.

Series:

Materializing culture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: observations from the coal-face -- Part I: notes from the archive. Exchanging photographs, making archives -- Photographing objects -- Part II: historical inscriptions. Visualising history: Diamond Jenness's photographs of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Massim, 1911-1912 -- Time and space on the quarter deck: two Samoan photographs by Captain W. Acland -- Professor Huxley's 'Well-considered plan' -- Re-enactment, salvage ethnography and photography in the Torres Strait -- Part III: reworkings. Rethinking photography in the ethnographic museum -- Jorma Puranen, Imaginery homecoming, a study in re-engagement -- Epilogue.

ISBN:

1859734928
9781859734926
1859734979 paperback
9781859734971 paperback

Subject:

Anthropological museums and collections - Social aspects.
Photographs as information resources.
Photography in Anthropology.
Photography in Ethnology.
Anthropological museums and collections Social aspects.
Photography in anthropology.
Photography in ethnology.
Photographie en anthropologie.
Photographies (Sources d'information)
Anthropologie Musées et collections Aspect social.
Photographie en ethnologie.
73.03 methods and techniques of ethnology.
Culturele antropologie.
Foto's.
Interpretatie.
Musea.

Added entries:

Materializing culture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 217958
Call No.: GN34.3.P45 E3 2001
Status: Available