Anthropology and photography 1860-1920

Contents: Photography : theories of realism and convention / Terence Wright The photographic document : photographs as primary data in anthropological enquiry / Joanna C. Scherer Surveying the field of view : the making of the RAI photographic collection / Roslyn Poignant The parallel histories of anthropology and photography / Christopher Pinney Some notes on the attempt to apply photography to anthropometry during the second half of the nineteenth century / Frank Spencer Science visualized : E.H. Man in the Andaman Islands / Elizabeth Edwards British popular anthropology : exhibiting and photographing the other / Brian Street Representing the other : the North American Indian / Brian W. Dippie Of ‘peculiar carvings and architectural devices’ : photographic ethnohistory and the Haida Indians / Margaret B. Blackman. George Hunt, Kwakiutl photographer / Ira Jacknis The fading of appearances : anthropological observations on a nineteenth-century photograph / H.L. Seneviratne Focal length as an analogue of cultural distance / Martha Macintyre and Maureen MacKenzie Underneath the banyan tree : William Crooke and photographic depictions of caste / Christopher Pinney Whose pose is it? : a photo-ethnographic conundrum from South India / Nicholas J. Bradford The yellow bough : River’s use of photography in The Todas / Paul Hockings ‘Very loveable human beings’ : the photography of Everard im Thurn / Donald Tayler Photographs of the Sankuru and Kasai River basin expedition undertaken by Emil Torday (1876-1931) and M.W. Hilton Simpson (1881-1936) / Jan Vansina Two portraits of Auresian women / Naziha Hamouda. Photography, power and the Southern Nuba / James C. Faris The battle for control of the camera in late-nineteenth century Western Zambia / Gwyn Prins Te Tokanga-nui-a-noho meeting house / Anne Salmond The representation of Trucanini / Vivienne Rae-Ellis The political image : the impact of the camera in an ancient independent African state / Richard Pankhurst Two Māori portraits : adoption of the medium / Judith Binney Historical images changing audiences / Iskander Mydin A political primer on anthropology/photography / James C. Faris Appendix : Photographic techniques : an outline