A historical ethnography of photographs as a colonial tool and as reappropriated by the indigenous population from the 1860s through the 1920s and in the present.
A historical ethnography of photographs as a colonial tool and as reappropriated by the indigenous population from the 1860s through the 1920s and in the present.
Jane Lydon is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies at Monash University in Melbourne. She is the author of Many Inventions: The Chinese in the Rocks, 1890–1930 and a coeditor of Object Lessons: Archaeology and Heritage in Australia (forthcoming).
Inhaltsangabe
List of Illustrations ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xxv Introduction: Colonialism, Photography, Mimesis 1 1. "This Civilising Experiment": Charles Walter, Missionaries, and Photographic Theater 33 2. Science and Visuality: "Communicating Correct Ideas" 73 3. Time Traps: Defining Aboriginality during the 1870s–1880s 122 4. Works Like a Clock 176 5. Coranderrk Reappears 214 Epilogue 248 Notes 253 Bibliography 271 Index 295
List of Illustrations ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xxv Introduction: Colonialism, Photography, Mimesis 1 1. "This Civilising Experiment": Charles Walter, Missionaries, and Photographic Theater 33 2. Science and Visuality: "Communicating Correct Ideas" 73 3. Time Traps: Defining Aboriginality during the 1870s–1880s 122 4. Works Like a Clock 176 5. Coranderrk Reappears 214 Epilogue 248 Notes 253 Bibliography 271 Index 295
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