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Contesting Visibility
Heike Behrend
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Description for Contesting Visibility
Paperback. Num Pages: 266 pages, 26 b/w & 28 colour illus. BIC Classification: AJ; JFD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 528.
Since the introduction of photography by commercial studio photographers and the colonial state in Kenya, this global medium has been intensely debated and contested among Muslims on the cosmopolitan East African coast. This book does not only explore the making, circulation, and consumption of popular photographs, but also the other side, their rejection and obliteration, an essential aspect of a medium's history that should not be neglected. It deals with various »social spaces of refusal« in the local Muslim milieu and in that of »traditional« spirit mediums in which (gendered) visibility was (and is) contested in various and creative ways. ... Read more
Since the introduction of photography by commercial studio photographers and the colonial state in Kenya, this global medium has been intensely debated and contested among Muslims on the cosmopolitan East African coast. This book does not only explore the making, circulation, and consumption of popular photographs, but also the other side, their rejection and obliteration, an essential aspect of a medium's history that should not be neglected. It deals with various »social spaces of refusal« in the local Muslim milieu and in that of »traditional« spirit mediums in which (gendered) visibility was (and is) contested in various and creative ways. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
Number of Pages
266
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783837624564
SKU
V9783837624564
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About Heike Behrend
Heike Behrend worked as a Professor of Social Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research interests are new media (photography and video), religion, and violence. She is retired now and lives in Berlin.
Reviews for Contesting Visibility
Besprochen in: African Studies Review, 57/3 (2014), Drew Thompson