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Picturing Culture: The Photography of Muttappan teyyam between 1920 and Today.
- Source :
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Visual Anthropology . Mar/Apr2017, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p147-165. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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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]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 08949468
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Visual Anthropology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 121307529
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2017.1277109