1. Picturing Culture: The Photography of Muttappan teyyam between 1920 and Today.
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Müller, Katja
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PHOTOGRAPHY of museum collections , *CULTURE , *DEBATE , *ANTHROPOLOGY , *HISTORY of anthropology - Abstract
Three different appropriations of a 1928 photograph from South India allow insights into German anthropology in the 1920s, contemporary German museum practices, and present-day ritual forms in northern Kerala. Juxtaposing these readings as what Edwards named evidential strategies, power of representation, and re-experiencing demonstrates the possibilities and limits of visual representation. The article contributes to a Picturing Culture debate that considers entrenched visual economies of archived photographs, and opts for an understanding of different aspects of cultural knowledge transported through photographs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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