Photography and anthropology

Photography and anthropology

by Pinney, Christopher

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In Photography and Anthropology, Christopher Pinney presents a provocative and readable account of the strikingly parallel histories of the two disciplines, as well as a polemical narrative and overview of the use of photography by anthropologists from the 1840s to the present. Walter Benjamin suggested that photography "make[s] the difference between technology and magic visible as a thoroughly historical variable," and Pinney here explores photography as a divinatory practice that prompted an…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Photography and anthropology / Christopher Pinney.

Summary

In Photography and Anthropology, Christopher Pinney presents a provocative and readable account of the strikingly parallel histories of the two disciplines, as well as a polemical narrative and overview of the use of photography by anthropologists from the 1840s to the present. Walter Benjamin suggested that photography "make[s] the difference between technology and magic visible as a thoroughly historical variable," and Pinney here explores photography as a divinatory practice that prompted anthropologists to capture the "primitive" lives of those they studied. Early anthropology celebrated p.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Reaktion books
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (174 pages) : : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781780230115, 1780230117, 1861898045, 9781861898043
  • oclc:ocn787845170
  • LC Classification:GN34.3.P45
  • Dewey Decimal:301

Table of Contents

Prologue: Images of a counterscience -- The doubled history of photography and anthropology -- The trouble with photography -- The problem with anthropology -- Epilogue: The holograph.

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Subjects

History Photographie en anthropologie Photographie en anthropologie -- Histoi… Photography in anthropology Photography in anthropology -- History

Writers

Pinney, Christopher

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