2004
192 pp.
56 b/w illustrations, 2 tables
Text language: English
CONTENTS
Theory of the Visual – Photographs as Source and Medium
Elizabeth Edwards:
Thinking materially / Thinking relationally
Anton Holzer:
Der Weg und die Fotografie Mission Photographs – Photography in the Colonial Context
Thoralf Klein:
The Basel Mission as a Transcultural Organization – Photographs of Chinese Christians and the Problem of Agency
Marisol Palma:
Konstruktion, Sammlung und Archiv – Zur sozialen Biografie der Feuerland-Fotografien von Martin Gusinde
Richard Fardon:
The Ethnologist and the Missionaries – Recording the 1908 Lela in Bali Nyonga
Barbara Frey Näf:
Imaging the Past – Historicising Portraits of the Kodagu and Nilgiri region, South-East India
Paul Jenkins:
Camera evangelistica – camera lucida? Trans-border experiences with historical photographs from a mission archive
The Postcolonial Project of Visual Representation
Christraud Geary:
Portraiture, Authorship, and the Inscription of History – Photographic Practice in the Bamum Kingdom, Cameroon (1902–1980)
Erin Haney:
If these Walls could talk – Exploring the Dynamic Archive through Ghanaian Portraiture