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Savage preservation : the ethnographic origins of modern media technology /
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, American writers and anthropologists believed that evolutionary forces had pushed the world's primitive races to the brink of extinction. They also believed that films, photographs, and phonograph recordings were specially suited to capture and pre...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis, MN :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, American writers and anthropologists believed that evolutionary forces had pushed the world's primitive races to the brink of extinction. They also believed that films, photographs, and phonograph recordings were specially suited to capture and preserve primitive life before it disappeared forever. Drawing extensively on seldom-seen archival sources, the book considers how the ethnographic project of racial documentation shaped audiovisual innovation, experimentation, and use in turn-of-the-century America. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxviii, 284 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781452910994 1452910995 9781452949123 1452949123 |