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Raw Histories: Photographs, Anthropology and Museums

Paperback • 2001

Raw Histories: Photographs, Anthropology and Museums

By Elizabeth. Edwards

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About the book

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 a series of case studies, precisely the poten...Show more

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9781859734971

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2001

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Raw Histories: Photographs, Anthropology and Museums

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