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6%OFFCraig Campbell - Agitating Images: Photography against History in Indigenous Siberia - 9780816681068 - V9780816681068
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Agitating Images: Photography against History in Indigenous Siberia

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Description for Agitating Images: Photography against History in Indigenous Siberia Paperback. Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indegenous Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FCS; AJC; JFD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.

Following the socialist revolution, a colossal shift in everyday realities began in the 1920s and ’30s in the former Russian empire. Faced with the Siberian North, a vast territory considered culturally and technologically backward by the revolutionary government, the Soviets confidently undertook the project of reshaping the ordinary lives of the indigenous peoples in order to fold them into the Soviet state. 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.

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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.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
First Peoples: New Directions in Indegenous Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816681068
SKU
V9780816681068
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About Craig Campbell
Craig Campbell is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin.

Reviews for Agitating Images: Photography against History in Indigenous Siberia
"The archival turn has had a sobering effect on recent attempts to grapple with the histories of photography but for the best studies––like Craig Campbell’s––the archive itself is part of the historical problem: its internal mechanisms, its effects of power, its production of truth and its techniques of forgetting and erasure––all effects that, as Campbell shows in this highly original ... Read more

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