Agitating images : photography against history in indigenous Siberia / Craig Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Craig A. R., 1973- author.

Series:

First peoples (2010)

First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evenki (Asian people)--Cultural assimilation--Russia (Federation)--Siberia, Northwestern--History--20th century.

Evenki (Asian people).

Evenki (Asian people)--Government relations--History--20th century.

Evenki (Asian people)--Government policy--Soviet Union.

Historiography and photography.

Government policy.

History.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

xx, 267 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]

Summary:

In Agitating Images, Craig Campbell draws a rich and unsettling cultural portrait of the encounter between indigenous Siberians and Russian communists and reveals how photographs from this period complicate our understanding of this history. Agitating Images provides a glimpse into the first moments of cultural engineering in remote areas of Soviet Siberia. The Soviets hoped to permanently transform the mythologized landscape by establishing socialist utopian developments designed to incorporate minority cultures into the communist state. This book delves deeply into photographic archives from these Soviet programs, but rather than using the photographs to complement an official history, Campbell presents them as anti-illustrations, or intrusions, that confound simple narratives of Soviet bureaucracy and power. An innovative approach to challenging historical interpretation, Agitating Images demonstrates how photographs go against accepted premises of Soviet Siberia. All photographs, Campbell argues, communicate in unique ways that present new and even contrary possibilities to the text they illustrate. Ultimately, Agitating Images dissects our very understanding of the production of historical knowledge. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : in the archives of the cultural base

The years are like centuries

Dangerous communications

Conclusion : ethics of presence and the (de)generative image.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816681068

0816681066

9780816681051

0816681058

OCLC:

875852167