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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Main Author: Hochman, Brian, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Technology > Social aspects.
Technology and civilization.
Mass media > Technological innovations.
Mass media > Social aspects.
Ethnology > Fieldwork.
Anthropology > Fieldwork.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Technologie et civilisation.
Medias > Aspect social.
Medias > Innovations.
Anthropologie > Recherche sur le terrain.
Ethnologie > Recherche sur le terrain.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (312 pages).
ISBN:9781452910994

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