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Ambivalent : photography and visibility in African history / edited by Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley.

Contributor(s): Hayes, Patricia [editor.] | Minkley, Gary [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: New African histories seriesPublisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2019Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 351 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780821446881 (e-book)Subject(s): Visual sociology -- Africa | Photography -- Social aspects -- Africa -- History | Africa -- Social conditions -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books. Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ambivalent : photography and visibility in African history.DDC classification: 302.2/26 LOC classification: HM500 | .A53 2019Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction. Africa and the Ambivalence of seeing / Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley -- Ambivalent Mediations: Photographic Desire, Anxiety, and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Changed Africa / Isabelle de Rezende -- Empty Photographs: Ethnography and the Lacunae of African History / Patricia Hayes -- Unstable Forms: Photography, Race, and the Identity Document in South Africa / Ingrid Masondo -- The Pass Photograph and the Intimate Photographic Event in South Africa / Gary Minkley -- Photographic Genres and Alternate Histories of Independence in Mozambique / Drew Thompson -- Photography, Mass Violence, and Survivors: The Cassinga Massacre of 1978 / Vilho Shigwedha -- Images of Ambivalence: Photography in the Making of Omhedi, Northern Namibia / Napandulwe Shiweda -- The Profane and the Prophetic at a South African Beach / Phindi Mnyaka -- Photographing Aso Ebi: Of Surfacism and Digitality / Okechukwu Nwafor -- Boko Haram Insurgency and a New Mode of War in Nigeria / Georgge Emekea Agbo -- Mirrors and Waters: The Practice and the Visual in Beninese Mami Wata Cults / Jung Ran Forte -- Coda / Patricia Hayes.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Africa and the Ambivalence of seeing / Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley -- Ambivalent Mediations: Photographic Desire, Anxiety, and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Changed Africa / Isabelle de Rezende -- Empty Photographs: Ethnography and the Lacunae of African History / Patricia Hayes -- Unstable Forms: Photography, Race, and the Identity Document in South Africa / Ingrid Masondo -- The Pass Photograph and the Intimate Photographic Event in South Africa / Gary Minkley -- Photographic Genres and Alternate Histories of Independence in Mozambique / Drew Thompson -- Photography, Mass Violence, and Survivors: The Cassinga Massacre of 1978 / Vilho Shigwedha -- Images of Ambivalence: Photography in the Making of Omhedi, Northern Namibia / Napandulwe Shiweda -- The Profane and the Prophetic at a South African Beach / Phindi Mnyaka -- Photographing Aso Ebi: Of Surfacism and Digitality / Okechukwu Nwafor -- Boko Haram Insurgency and a New Mode of War in Nigeria / Georgge Emekea Agbo -- Mirrors and Waters: The Practice and the Visual in Beninese Mami Wata Cults / Jung Ran Forte -- Coda / Patricia Hayes.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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