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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Cánepa Koch, Gisela, 1964- (Editor), Kummels, Ingrid (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2016]
Series:Postcolonial studies ; Bd. 24.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Photography in Latin America: Images and Identities Across Time and Space: An Introduction / Ingrid Kummels and Gisela Cánepa Koch
  • Of Photography and Men: Encounters with Historical Portrait and Type Photographs / Michael Kraus
  • Unfixed Images: Circulation and New Cultural Uses of Heinrich Brüning's Photographic Collection / Gisela Cánepa Koch
  • Recognizing Past and Present through Photography: Temporality and Culture in Konrad Theodor Preuss's Images / Aura Lisette Reyes
  • Appropriating an Image: A Study of the Reception of Ethnographic Photography Among the Zapotec Indigenous People of Mexico / Mariana da Costa A. Petroni
  • Unexpected Memories: Bringing Back Photographs and Films from the 1980s to an Asháninka Nomatsiguenga Community of the Peruvian Selva Central / Ingrid Kummels
  • Gazing at the Face of Absence: Signification and Re-signification of Family Photographs of Disappeared University Students in Peru / Mercedes Figueroa
  • Disputing Visual Memories in the Peruvian Andes: The Case of Huancasancos, Ayacucho / María Eugenia Ulfe and Ximena Málaga Sabogal.