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Picturing Pity - Pitfalls and Pleasures in Cross-Cultural Communication.Image and Word in a North Cameroon Mission (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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Picturing Pity - Pitfalls and Pleasures in Cross-Cultural Communication.Image and Word in a North Cameroon Mission (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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Picturing Pity is the first full length monograph on missionary
photography. Empirically, it is based on an in-depth analysis of
the published photographs taken by Norwegian evangelical
missionaries in Northern Cameroon from the early nineteen twenties,
at the beginning of their activities in this region, and until
today. Being part of a large international movement, Norway sent
out more missionaries per capita than any other country in Europe.
Marianne Gullestad's main contention is that the need to
continuously justify their activities to donors in Europe has led
to the creation and maintenance of specific ways of portraying
Africans. The missionary visual rhetoric is both based on earlier
visualizations and has over time established its own conventions
which can now also be traced within secular fields of activity such
as international development agencies, foreign policy, human relief
organizations and the mass media. Picturing Pity takes part in the
present "pictorial turn" in academic teaching and research,
constituting visual images as an exciting site of conversation
across disciplinary lines.
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