| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 307 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Contents |
Tracing Okiek portraits: images, exhibitions, and the politics of representation -- Producing Okiek portraits: collaboration, negotiation, and exhibitionary authority -- Imagining audiences: Okiek portraits in Kenya -- Imagining audiences: Okiek portraits and the United States -- The final venues: designing and defining interpretation -- Appendix A. The politics of representation and identities -- Appendix B. Key relationships represented in Okiek portraits -- Appendix C. Learning about visitors in Michigan and Georgia |
| Summary |
The Okiek people of Kenya's forested highlands have a long history of hunting, honey gathering, and trading with their Maasai and Kipsigis neighbors; several decades ago, they also began farming and herding. This book follows a traveling exhibition of anthropologist Corinne Kratz's photographs of the Okiek through showings at seven venues, including the National Museum in Nairobi and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Kratz tells the story of the exhibition--the stereotypes it sought to challenge, how commentaries by Okiek people were incorporated, and different ways that viewers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-295) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Dorobo (African people) -- Portraits -- Exhibitions
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Dorobo (African people) -- Portraits -- Public opinion -- Exhibitions
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Public opinion -- United States
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Dorobo (African people) -- Attitudes -- Exhibitions
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Photography in ethnology.
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Dorobo (African people) -- Portraits -- Exhibitions
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Dorobo (African people) -- Portraits -- Public opinion -- Exhibitions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
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Dorobo (African people)
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Photography in ethnology
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Public opinion
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Dorobo (volk)
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Fotografie.
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Tentoonstellingen.
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Publieke opinie.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogs
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Electronic books.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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Catalogues d'exposition.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0520222814 |
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9780520222816 |
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0520222822 |
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9780520222823 |
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1597347841 |
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9781597347846 |
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0520924665 |
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9780520924666 |
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0585469342 |
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9780585469348 |
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