The Echo of Things: The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands
(Part of the Objects/Histories Series)
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The Echo of Things is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands. Christopher Wright examines the contemporary uses of photography and expectations of the medium in Roviana, as well as people's reactions to photographs made by colonial powers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For Roviana people, photographs are unique objects; they are not reproducible,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822355108
ISBN13:9780822355106
Release Date:November 2013
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.5" x 9.9"
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