Raw Histories: Photographs, Anthropology and Museums

by Elizabeth Edwards

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859734928
• ISBN13: 9781859734926
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"