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The echo of things : the lives of photographs in the Solomon Islands / Christopher Wright.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wright, Christopher (Christopher J.)
- Series:
- Objects/histories.
- Objects/histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Photography in ethnology--Solomon Islands.
- Photography in ethnology.
- Solomon Islanders--Pictorial works.
- Solomon Islanders.
- Solomon Islands--Pictorial works.
- Solomon Islands.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Echo of Things is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands and a provocative inquiry into our own understandings of photography.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- Tie vaka? : the men of the boat
- "A devil's engine"
- Photographic resurrection
- Histories
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822355106
- 0822355108
- 9780822377412
- 0822377411
- OCLC:
- 1141425825
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