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Tlingit Encounter With Photography
Sharon Bohn Gmelch
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Description for Tlingit Encounter With Photography
Hardback. This is the first book to explore the photographic imagery of the Tlingit dating from a critical period of change, from the 1860s through the 1920s. Num Pages: 240 pages, 130 illus. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1066.
Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, shortly after the invention of photography, the Tlingit of southeastern Alaska encountered early Russian and American survey teams, ethnographic investigators, studio photographers, tourists, and resident amateur and commercial photographers.
Why were the Tlingit photographed and how were their images disseminated? How were they portrayed through photography? How active were the Tlingit in shaping the images taken of them and in controlling their representation? Did photography remain an alien technology and activity or did the Tlingit incorporate it into their own culture?
Based on research in thirteen North American archives ... Read more
Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, shortly after the invention of photography, the Tlingit of southeastern Alaska encountered early Russian and American survey teams, ethnographic investigators, studio photographers, tourists, and resident amateur and commercial photographers.
Why were the Tlingit photographed and how were their images disseminated? How were they portrayed through photography? How active were the Tlingit in shaping the images taken of them and in controlling their representation? Did photography remain an alien technology and activity or did the Tlingit incorporate it into their own culture?
Based on research in thirteen North American archives ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, United States
ISBN
9781934536100
SKU
V9781934536100
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Ref
99-38
About Sharon Bohn Gmelch
Sharon Bohn Gmelch is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Union College.
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