Photography in Latin America : images and identities across time and space / Gisela Cánepa Koch, Ingrid Kummels (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cánepa Koch, Gisela, 1964- editor.

Kummels, Ingrid, editor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Postcolonial studies ; Bd. 24.

Postcolonial Studies ; volume 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual anthropology--Latin America.

Visual anthropology.

Photography in ethnology--Latin America.

Photography in ethnology.

History.

Latin America--History--Pictorial works.

Latin America.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Historical photographs taken in Latin America have now become key sites for memory politics, ethnographic imagination, and the negotiation of identity. This volume opens up a set of questions relating to the contemporaneous agency of images as well as their current appropriation via new technologies. Case studies of pictures taken in Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Brazil analyze these processes by tracing how the images have been resignified over time and space. The contributions examine photographs that have been recently rediscovered by such diverse actors as European museums, human rights organizations, anthropologists, shamans, local historians, and communities of internet users. Book jacket.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Photography in Latin America. Images and Identities Across Time and Space

An Introduction; Of Photography and Men. Encounters with Historical Portrait and Type Photographs; Unfixed Images. Circulation and New Cultural Uses of Heinrich Brüning's Photographic Collection; Recognizing Past and Present through Photography. Temporality and Culture in Konrad Theodor Preuss's Images; Appropriating an Image. A Study of the Reception of Ethnographic Photography Among the Zapotec Indigenous People of Mexico

Unexpected Memories. Returning Photographs and Films from the 1980s to an Asháninka Nomatsiguenga Community of the Peruvian Selva CentralGazing at the Face of Absence. Signification and Re-signification of Family Photographs of Disappeared University Students in Peru; Disputing Visual Memories in the Peruvian Andes. The Case of Huancasancos, Ayacucho; Contributors

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Photography in Latin America.

ISBN:

3839433177

9783839433171

Publisher Number:

99969075781

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.