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Photography in Africa - Ethnographic Perspectives (Hardcover)
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Photography in Africa - Ethnographic Perspectives (Hardcover)
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Gives an ethnographic account of the complexities of the use of
photography in Africa, both historically and in contemporary
practice. This collection of studies in African photography
examines, through a series of empirically rich historical and
ethnographic cases, the variety of ways in which photographs are
produced, circulated, and engaged across a range of social
contexts. In so doing, it elucidates the distinctive
characteristics of African photographic practices and cultures,
vis-a-vis those of other forms of 'vernacular photography'
worldwide. In addition, these studies develop areflexive turn,
examining the history of academic engagement with these African
photographic cultures, and reflecting on the distinctive qualities
of the ethnographic method as a means for studying such phenomena.
The volumecritically engages current debates in African photography
and visual anthropology. First, it extends our understanding of the
variety of ways in which both colonial and post-colonial states in
Africa have used photography as a means for establishing, and
projecting, their authority. Second, it moves discussion of African
photography away from an exclusive focus on the role of the 'the
studio' and looks at the circulations through which the studios'
products - the photographs themselves - later pass as artefacts of
material culture. Last, it makes an important contribution to our
understanding of the relationship between photography and
ethnographic research methods, as these have been employed in
Africa. Richard Vokes is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the
University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and author of Ghosts of
Kanungu
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