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Informationen zum Autor Rosalind C. Morris, ed. Klappentext ""Photographies East" is remarkable in many ways. As the first systematic consideration of photography in East and Southeast Asia, it offers some of the most acute reflections on the different workings and effects of photography in non-Western contexts. It will also stir fresh thinking about the relationship between history and anthropology in the wake of the camera."--Vicente L. Rafael, author of "The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines" Zusammenfassung Scholars of Asia! most of whom are anthropologists! examine the transformations precipitated or accelerated by the spread of photography across East and Southeast Asia. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Photographies East: The Camera and Its Histories in East and Southeast Asia / Rosalind C. Morris 1 The Ghost in the Machine / John Pemberton 29 The Curse of the Photograph: Atjeh 1901 / James T. Siegel 57 The Photography Complex: Exposing Boxer-Era China (1900-1901), Making Civilization / James L. Hevia 79 Photography and the Power of Images in the History of Power: Notes from Thailand / Rosalind C. Morris 121 In and Out of the Picture: Photography, Ritual, and Modernity in Aru, Indonesia / Patricia Spyer 161 Mysterious Photographs / Nickola Pazderic 183 Abandoned Cities Seen Anew: Reflections on Spatial Specificity and Temporal Transience / Carlos Rojas 207 Dark Enlightenment: Nait¿ Masatoshi's Flash / Marilyn Ivy 229 Cine-Photography as Racial Technology: Tanizaki Jun'ichir¿'s Close-up on the New/Oriental Woman's Face / Thomas LaMarre 259 Bibliography 291 Contributors 305 Index 307
