The Echo of Things is a compelling ethnographic study of what
photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western
Solomon Islands. Christopher Wright examines the contemporary uses
of photography and expectations of the medium in Roviana, as well
as people's reactions to photographs made by colonial powers in the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For Roviana people,
photographs are unique objects; they are not reproducible, as they
are in Euro-American understandings of the medium. Their status as
singular objects contributes to their ability to channel ancestral
power, and that ability is a key to understanding the links between
photography, memory, and history in Roviana. Filled with the voices
of Roviana people, The Echo of Things is both a nuanced study of
the lives of photographs in a particular cultural setting and a
provocative inquiry into our own understandings of photography.
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