Photography in Latin America - Images and Identities Across Time and Space

Historical photographs taken in Latin America have now become key sites for memory politics, ethnographic imagination, and the negotiation of identity. This volume opens up a set of questions relating to the contemporaneous agency of images as well as their current appropriation via new technologies. Case studies of pictures taken in Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Brazil analyze these processes by tracing how the images have been resignified over time and space. The contributions examine photographs that have been recently rediscovered by such diverse actors as European museums, human rights organizations, anthropologists, shamans, local historians, and communities of internet users.

About the author

Ingrid Kummels, Habilitation in Ethnologie, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin der Kulturanthropologie am Lateinamerika-Institut der FU Berlin mit den regionalen Schwerpunkten Mexiko, Nordamerikas Südwesten, transnationaler Raum Kuba / USA und den inhaltliche Schwerpunkten Ethnizität, Ethnohistorie, Kunsthandwerk, Musik, Tanz und Sport als Brennpunkte transnationaler Hybridisierungsprozesse und Visuelle Anthropologie. Sie ist Koautorin zahlreicher TV-Dokumentationen.

Report

»Insgesamt sehr gelungene Beiträge.«

Hinnerk Onken, Anthropos, 112 (2017) 20171211

Product details

• Assisted by: Gisel Cánepa Koch (Editor), Gisela Cánepa Koch (Editor), Dra Gisela Cánepa Koch (Editor), Kummels (Editor), Kummels (Editor), Ingrid Kummels (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2016
• EAN: 9783837633177
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-3317-7
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 378 g
• Illustrations: 22 schw.-w. u. 24 farb. Abb.
• Series: Theater; Postcolonial Studies; Theater (Transcript Verlag); Postcolonial Studies; Theater (Transcript Verlag)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general)