Savage preservation : the ethnographic origins of modern media technology /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hochman, Brian, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Temas:
Ethnology > Fieldwork.
Anthropology > Fieldwork.
Mass media > Technological innovations.
Mass media > Social aspects.
Technology > Social aspects.
Technology and civilization.
Ethnologie > Recherche sur le terrain.
Anthropologie > Recherche sur le terrain.
Médias > Innovations.
Médias > Aspect social.
Technologie et civilisation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Anthropology > Fieldwork
Ethnology > Fieldwork
Mass media > Social aspects
Mass media > Technological innovations
Technology and civilization
Technology > Social aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the Passamaquoddy experiment
  • Media evolution: Indians, alphabets, and the technological measures of man
  • Representing Plains Indian sign language
  • Originals and Aboriginals: race and writing in the age of the phonograph
  • Race, empire, and the skin of the ethnographic image
  • Local colors: the work of the autochrome
  • Postscript: fictions of permanence.

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