The ones that are wanted : communication and the politics of representation in a photographic exhibition / Corinne A. Kratz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kratz, Corinne Ann, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dorobo (African people)--Portraits--Exhibitions.

Dorobo (African people).

Dorobo (African people)--Portraits--Public opinion--Exhibitions.

Public opinion--United States.

Public opinion.

United States.

Dorobo (African people)--Attitudes--Exhibitions.

Photography in ethnology.

Genre:

Portraits.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

ix, 307 pages, 32 leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]

Summary:

The Okiek People of Kenya's Forested Highlands Have a Long History of Hunting. Honey Gathering, and Trading with Their Maasai and Kipsigis Neighbors; Several Decades Ago, They also Began Farming and Herding. This Book Follows a Traveling Exhibition of Anthropologist Corinne Kratz's Photographs of the Okiek Through Showings at Seven Venues, Including the National Museum in Nairobi and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Kratz Tells the Story of the Exhibition -- the Stereotypes it Sought to Challenge, How Commentaries by Okiek People were Incorporated, and Different Ways That Viewers in Kenya and the United States Understood it. in Addition to Presenting Wonderful Images of a Little-Known People, This Inviting Book Explores the Exhibition Medium Itself. Focusing on the Complexities and Possibilities of Cultural Representation.

Contents:

Okiek Portraits: A Kenyan People Look at Themselves 17

1. Tracing Okiek Portraits: Images, Exhibitions, and the Politics of Representation 88

2. Producing Okiek Portraits: Collaboration, Negotiation, and Exhibitionary Authority 98

3. Imagining Audiences: Okiek Portraits in Kenya 130

4. Imagining Audiences: Okiek Portraits in the United States 164

5. The Final Venues: Designing and Defining Interpretation 190

Appendix A The Politics of Representation and Identities 219

Appendix B Key Relationships Represented in Okiek Portraits 224

Appendix C Learning about Visitors in Michigan and Georgia 226.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-295) and index.

ISBN:

0520222814

0520222822

OCLC:

47056276