Echo of Things - The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands

Christopher Wright is Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. From 1992 until 2000, he was Photographic Officer at the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. He is a coeditor of the books Between Art and Anthropology and Contemporary Art and Anthropology.

List of contents

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Prologue 1

1. Tie Vaka-The Men of the Boat 19

2. "A Devil's Engine" 59

3. Photographic Resurrection 111

4. Histories 163

Epilogue 191

Notes 195

References 205

Index 217

About the author

Christopher Wright

Summary

The Echo of Things is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands and a provocative inquiry into our own understandings of photography.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Wright
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.11.2013
• EAN: 9780822354963
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5496-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Objects/Histories; Objects/Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology