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Picturing Bushmen

Name: Picturing Bushmen
Brand: Ohio University Press
SKU: 9780821411872
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The Denver African Expedition of 1925

Autor: Robert J. Gordon

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Editura: Ohio University Press

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Bushmen have frequently been the archetypal other in Western intellectual and popular thought. These...

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Autor

Robert J. Gordon

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

1997

Pagini

325

EAN

9780821411872

ISBN

082141187X

Enbook ID

04935168

Editura

Ohio University Press

Greutate

839

Dimensiuni

190 x 267 x 23

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Bushmen have frequently been the archetypal other in Western intellectual and popular thought. These romantic images portrayed in commercial advertising, art exhibitions, films, and novels are actually less myth than fairy tale, which persist in spite of a sound body of contrary empirical evidence. In this innovative study of bushman imagery, Robert Gordon focuses on a particular event, the Denver African Expedition of 1925, which went off to Africa to seek the cradle of Humanity. The participants claimed to have found the Missing Link in the Heikum Bushmen of the Etosha Game Park and, because the Expedition was a commercial venture, its backers marketed this image. Gordon, an anthropologist, examines the culture of visualization that gave direction to the expedition and was in turn influenced by it. Because the pictures from the Denver Expedition were aesthetically pleasing, they encouraged widespread merchandising of bushman images, which, in turn, had unanticipated consequences. Picturing Bushmen ventures beyond traditional boundaries of area studies, visual theory, and academic anthropology to press for an appreciation of the familiar as well as the spectacular. In evaluating the role of the ethnic photograph, it addresses the perennial questions that haunts field workers: How much are they influenced by the mundane in their own society and when are they exploiting their subjects? It is easy to fall into the error of regarding the Bushmen as more primitive than they really were. -- J. S. Marais, 1939