Photography and Anthropology Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Prologue: Images of a Counterscience; 1. The Doubled History of Photography and Anthropology; 2. The Trouble with Photography; 3. The Problem with Anthropology; Epilogue: The Holograph; References; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements; Index
Summary
In Photography and Anthropology, Christopher Pinney presents a provocative and readable account of the strikingly parallel histories of the two disciplines, as well as a polemical narrative and overview of the use of photography by anthropologists from the 1840s to the present. Walter Benjamin suggested that photography "make[s] the difference between technology and magic visible as a thoroughly historical variable," and Pinney here explores photography as a divinatory practice that prompted anthropologists to capture the "primitive" lives of those they studied. Early anthropology celebrated p
