Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013 - An Anthropological Approach

Introducing a novel anthropological study of photography in the Middle East, Emilie Le Febvre takes us to the Naqab Desert where Bedouin use photographs to make, and respond to, their own histories.

List of contents

Preface: Ethnonyms and Being Bedouin Introduction: Contours of Place, People, and Ethnography Part One - Histories 1. Naqab Bedouin Social History and Historiography 2. Making Histories in a Bedouin Society Part Two - Photography 3. Anthropology of Bedouin Photography and Photographs 4. Photographic Presences and Entangled Visual Economies Part Three - Photographs 5. Circulating Images: Tribal Histories of Lineages 6. Circulating Images: Community Histories Conclusion: Historical Persuasion and Photographs in the Desert

About the author

Emilie Le Febvre received her DPhil and MSc from the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford.

Product details

• Authors: Emilie (University of Oxford Le Febvre, Le Febvre Emilie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032641249
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3264124-9
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: Photography, History: History, Photography
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Photography & photographs, The arts: general issues, ART / History / General, Anthropology, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, Middle East, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Regional Studies, Social and cultural history, Regional / International studies, Art forms, Photography and photographs, The Arts: art forms, The arts: general topics