Bonnie Adrian
Biographic Data
| ID | 152010 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bonnie Adrian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bonnie |
| FAMILY NAME | Adrian |
| SIGNATURE | ADRIAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How Can This Be? Ethnographic Contexts and History
Something Old, Something Bold
Cross-Border Marriages
Cross-Border Marriages: Gender and Mobility in Transnational Asia. Nicole Constable, ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 232 pp
Geographies of Style
This article explores the cultural geography of a distinctive mode of bridal photography that developed in Taiwan beginning in the 1980s and by the 1990s had become virtually a universal cultural practice for weddings, cutting across the class and urban/rural social divisions. Characterized by large-scale high key portraits of brides and grooms dressed in a variety of finery, posed in numerous settings, and exuding varied emotional states, the ph…
Society for East Asian Anthropology
Society for East Asian Anthropology
Society for East Asian Anthropology
Society for East Asian Anthropology
Society for East Asian Anthropology
East Asia Section
East Asia Section
Society for East Asian Anthropology
East Asia Section
East Asia Section
Society for East Asian Anthropology
The Camera's Positioning
This article analyzes the intense orchestration of the bride's appearance-both her physical beauty and her ability to appear to captivate her groom-in Taiwanese bridal salons. Historical circumstance, competitive consumption, and family politics combine to render young women willing if not always eager subjects. Photographers, in turn, attempt to provoke specific subjective states in their clients so as to produce atractive, naturalistic poses an…
Framing the Bride
With a wedding impending, the Taiwanese bride-to-be turns to bridal photographers, makeup artists, and hair stylists to transform her image beyond recognition. They give her fairer skin, eyes like a Western baby doll, and gowns inspired by sources from Victorian England to MTV. An absorbing consideration of contemporary bridal practices in Taiwan, Framing the Bride shows how the lavish photographs represent more than mere conspicuous consumption.…
East Asia Section
The Camera's Positioning
This article analyzes the intense orchestration of the bride's appearance-both her physical beauty and her ability to appear to captivate her groom-in Taiwanese bridal salons. Historical circumstance, competitive consumption, and family politics combine to render young women willing if not always eager subjects. Photographers, in turn, attempt to provoke specific subjective states in their clients so as to produce atractive, naturalistic poses an…
Geographies of Style
This article explores the cultural geography of a distinctive mode of bridal photography that developed in Taiwan beginning in the 1980s and by the 1990s had become virtually a universal cultural practice for weddings, cutting across the class and urban/rural social divisions. Characterized by large-scale high key portraits of brides and grooms dressed in a variety of finery, posed in numerous settings, and exuding varied emotional states, the ph…
Framing the Bride
With a wedding impending, the Taiwanese bride-to-be turns to bridal photographers, makeup artists, and hair stylists to transform her image beyond recognition. They give her fairer skin, eyes like a Western baby doll, and gowns inspired by sources from Victorian England to MTV. An absorbing consideration of contemporary bridal practices in Taiwan, Framing the Bride shows how the lavish photographs represent more than mere conspicuous consumption.…
East Asia Section
East Asia Section
East Asia Section
Society for East Asian Anthropology
East Asia Section
East Asia Section
Society for East Asian Anthropology
The Camera's Positioning
This article analyzes the intense orchestration of the bride's appearance-both her physical beauty and her ability to appear to captivate her groom-in Taiwanese bridal salons. Historical circumstance, competitive consumption, and family politics combine to render young women willing if not always eager subjects. Photographers, in turn, attempt to provoke specific subjective states in their clients so as to produce atractive, naturalistic poses an…
Society for East Asian Anthropology
Society for East Asian Anthropology
Society for East Asian Anthropology
Society for East Asian Anthropology
Society for East Asian Anthropology
Cross-Border Marriages
Cross-Border Marriages: Gender and Mobility in Transnational Asia. Nicole Constable, ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 232 pp
Geographies of Style
This article explores the cultural geography of a distinctive mode of bridal photography that developed in Taiwan beginning in the 1980s and by the 1990s had become virtually a universal cultural practice for weddings, cutting across the class and urban/rural social divisions. Characterized by large-scale high key portraits of brides and grooms dressed in a variety of finery, posed in numerous settings, and exuding varied emotional states, the ph…
Something Old, Something Bold
How Can This Be? Ethnographic Contexts and History
Sociology (15 works) · Citation (12 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Library science (12 works) · History (11 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (8 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works)