Elizabeth Edwards
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Edwards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Edwards |
| SIGNATURE | EDWARDS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pitt Rivers Museum |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2973-8749 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 82 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 225 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 79 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1944 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Photography and history
In this ‘Conversation’ piece, Professors Patricia Hayes and Elizabeth Edwards discuss the relationship between photography and history as it manifests itself through the photographic legacies of Southern Africa. The specific historical experience of the Southern Africa has given rise to a realisation of the potential of photographs as drivers for historical thinking and analysis, the way photographs ‘move history forward’. The Conversation addres…
Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Natural and Social Science Education (ICNSSE 2023)
Visual Sense
Visual Sense and Cultures of Sight An Introduction
The enormous expansion of visual studies and visual culture in recent decades has made itself felt in almost every field of academic enquiry. It has spawned a mass of literature, conferences, student courses and specialist journals such as The Journal of Visual Culture and Visual Studies and all the while infiltrating others. In order to digest this amorphous and sprawling field for the student, a number of Readers have emerged. Some are general …
Photographs, Orality and History
Photographs are the focus of intense emotional engagement. In premising photographic effect on the visual and the forensic alone, we limit our understanding of the modes through which photographs have historical effect because photographs both focus and extend the verbal articulation of histories and the sound world they inhabit.
Science, Sight and the Ordering of Colonial Societies Fernando Feliú
At the beginning of the twentieth century, yellow fever, malaria, and cholera manifested themselves through devastating epidemics; however, other diseases, such as uncinariasis, or “hookworm disease,” popularly known as anemia, also wreaked havoc, particularly among the Puerto Rican population. According to Blanca Silvestrini, at the close of the nineteenth century the mortality rate for anemia reached nearly 90 percent, a figure higher than that…
Cinema and History
Only cinema can narrate History with a capital H simply by telling its own history, the other arts can&s;t.
Mauuarin, Anaïs. À l’épreuve des images. Photographie et ethnologie en France (1930-1950)
Tout en nuances, cette étude au rythme magnifique s’intéresse à la pensée ethnologique dans ses rapports avec les pratiques photographiques et cinématographiques, avec le musée et l’expédition. Elle se concentre sur le milieu du xxe siècle, période trop souvent négligée car prise en tenaille entre les récits des origines au xixe siècle et les préoccupations du tournant des xxe et xxie siècles. Pourtant, la fluidité des échanges entre les pratique…
Mourning Becomes the Duchess
This article explores the acts of mourning for John of Gaunt’s first wife, Blanche. It places Geoffrey Chaucer’s mourning poem, The Book of the Duchess, in a broader historical context with the material object of the tomb in Saint Paul’s and the performative rites that attended not only her funeral but also the subsequent anniversaries of her death. Elizabeth Edwards argues that all three formed part of the “work of mourning,” a Freudian term tha…
Integrating hypertension and diabetes management in primary health care settings
Hypertension and diabetes are modifiable cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors that contribute to nearly one-third of all deaths in the Americas Region each year (2.3 million deaths). Despite advances in the detection and clinical management of hypertension and diabetes, there are substantial gaps in their implementation globally and in the Region. The considerable overlap in risk factors, prognosis, and treatment of hypertension and diabetes…
HEARTS como herramienta para integrar el manejo de la hipertensión y la diabetes en los entornos de atención primaria de salud
La hipertensión y la diabetes son los factores de riesgo modificables de las enfermedades cardiovasculares asociados a casi un tercio de todas las muertes en la Región de las Américas cada año (2,3 millones). A pesar de los avances en la detección y el manejo clínico de la hipertensión y la diabetes, existen brechas sustanciales en la implementación a nivel regional y mundial. El considerable solapamiento en los factores de riesgo, el pronóstico …
A fotografia e a performance da história
Starting from an analysis of a series of photographs taken in the Royal Navy expeditions to the Pacific in the nineteenth century, this essay examines the theatrical and performative aspects of photography, suggesting that it can be used as a heuristic device in historiographical exploration. The author points that the photographical frame has a “heightening effect” that forces images into visibility while creating points of fracture that forces …
Thinking Indigeneity
Indigeneity is a resistance — in the usual sense of opposition, repudiation, and refusal to comply, but also, importantly, in the sense that dyers use the verb “resist,” about agents that will not
Travels in a New World – Work around a Diasporic Theme by Mohini Chandra
Displacement, the silences of histories, the complexities of double identity, the longing for ‘elsewhere’, and the attempts at coherence in experience have become focusing themes of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Chandra’s starting point is her own family’s history of double displacement. The first displacement was as indentured labourers brought from India to Fiji, under British colonial rule, to work the sugar plantations …
Sensible Objects
Procuring Snakes
This article surveys recent developments in the field of Welsh writing in English in the long eighteenth century. Drawing on the findings of the research project “Curious Travellers: Thomas Pennant and the Welsh and Scottish Tour 1760‐1815”, it sets new work on Pennant and his networks in the context of ongoing research into a number of fields within eighteenth‐century Wales, including political history, literature and science, Wales's bilingual …
Silent History
Just as I started reading this volume, I went to the Don McCullin exhibition at Tate Britain. I was struck by the gestures and styles of attention of the crowds watching the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, as they were caught by McCullin’s camera. What is it to be of a moment and hold and present the body in social space and in time? How can the historical body and its everyday deportment, gesture and social meaning be excavated historically…
Roslyn Poignant 1927-2019
Photographs Can Never Be Still
Our Ancient Monuments”
This article explores the ways in which, during the interwar period, practices of state preservation of ancient monuments in Britain established a visual rhetoric of “monument as document.” This was expressed through photographic postcards and the visual presentation of monuments themselves. Informed by an entangled ethos of scientific archaeological understanding, public education, and discourses of public ownership, I argue that photographs est…
Un savoir incertain. La photographie et le document anthropologique au tournant du xxe siècle
Cet article met en relation la production de documents photographiques en anthropologie et les changements épistémologiques qui affectèrent la jeune discipline moderne dans les années 1890. L'analyse se concentre sur trois textes rédigés à cette époque par des anthropologues britanniques, qui mettent en regard la photographie et la preuve anthropologique : celui d'Everard im Thurn en 1893, de Maurice V. Portman en 1896 et d'Alfred C. Haddon en 18…
Making Photography Matter
Reviewed by: Making Photography Matter: A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depressionby Cara A. Finnegan Elizabeth Edwards (bio) Making Photography Matter: A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depression. by Cara A. Finnegan. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. Pp. 256. $50/ $28. What people actually thought of photographs is a constant concern in historical studies of photography. In this volume, Cara Finneg…
Visualising Traces of the Past in Latin America
The articles included in this special issue address the shifting relationship between traces of the past and photography in Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present day. Looking at different forms of materiality and trace in Latin America, from pre-Columbian remains to body art and industrial ruins, this issue also understands photographs as material objects that ‘act’ within particular visual economies. In this introduction, we o…
The colonial archival imaginaire at home
This paper addresses ways in which the aphasic nature of the colonial archive in postcolonial Britain causes a displacement in the archival imagination as 'elsewhere'. I use the concept of the historical elsewhere to demonstrate the deep structural patterns in the denial of the relevance of the potentially dystopic colonial archive in public historical narratives. Looking especially at the photographic archive, I explore ways in which photographs…
Exhibitions
EXHIBITION REVIEW ESSAYS Unsettling the National in South Asia: My East is Your West, Venice Biennale, and After Midnight, Queens Museum, New York Nonstop Modernity: Renovating the Rijksmuseum A Storehouse of Unimagined Treasures: York Art Gallery and the Centre of Ceramic Art, York St Mary’s EXHIBITION REVIEWS The Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation, British Museum, London Photography: A Victorian Sensat…
Photographs and the Sound of History
This article explores the nature of photographs as relational objects in the making and articulating of histories. It argues that, in the contexts of indigenous and cross‐cultural histories in Australia and elsewhere, photographs have a relational quality, occupying the spaces between people and people and people and things. They are socially salient objects and tactile, sensorially engaged objects that exist in time and space and thus in social …
"Photographic "types
This paper is a preliminary examination of one of the ways in which anthropologists attempted to apply photography systematically within the growing body of anthropological method during the 1860s and early 1870s. It concentrates on the "type" photograph, the main purpose of which was to illustrate the characteristics of a racial group. However, a wide variety of material was categorized as "types" of anthropological interest, for the term was mo…
Anthropology and Photography
This paper addresses the long history of photographic relationships in anthropology. It argues that the current concerns with multiple, relational and affective meanings in anthropological photographs are not simply the result of new approaches to photographic analysis, but were embedded in the relationships of the production of anthropological evidence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on examples from British field a…
Photographic Uncertainties
This paper examines the mid-nineteenth century photographic collecting practices in the Colonial Office (CO) in London. Following methodologies laid down by Stoler and Joyce, the paper excavates the epistemic procedures through which photography and its role in colonial governance operated between the late 1860s and 1875. I focus my analysis on the production of, and response to, two CO despatches, which were circulated in November 1869 requestin…
The colonial archival imaginaire at home
This paper addresses ways in which the aphasic nature of the colonial archive in postcolonial Britain causes a displacement in the archival imagination as 'elsewhere'. I use the concept of the historical elsewhere to demonstrate the deep structural patterns in the denial of the relevance of the potentially dystopic colonial archive in public historical narratives. Looking especially at the photographic archive, I explore ways in which photographs…
Photography and the Material Performance of the Past1
This article explores the significance of the material practices of photography and its archiving in interpretive approaches to the relationship between photographs and history. Drawing on work in material culture studies in anthropology and on the concept of "material hermeneutic," it argues that photographs should not be understood only through forensic and semiotic analysis of content, but as objects that constitute material performances of a …
Thinking Indigeneity
Indigeneity is a resistance — in the usual sense of opposition, repudiation, and refusal to comply, but also, importantly, in the sense that dyers use the verb “resist,” about agents that will not
Absent Histories and Absent Images
Based on research in a range of UK museums, this paper explores the visibility and invisibility of the photographic legacy of colonial relations and the representation of the colonial past in museum galleries. It explores the conditions of the 'invisibility' and 'disavowal' of the colonial past in the historical narrative developed by museums, and the anxieties that cluster around such narratives in a postcolonial and multicultural society. The p…
Echanges de photographies
This paper explores the way in which photographs operated as exchange objects within the interpretative community of emerging anthropological practice in the second half of the nineteenth century. Photographs became socially salient objects, enmeshed with a visual economy which reflected complex and wide - reaching scientific and social networks. At the same time, shifts in collecting interests and the scientific value accorded to certain kinds o…
Torres Strait Islanders
Educational Institutions or Extended Families? The Reconstruction of Gender in Women's Colleges in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
This article aims to develop our theorisation of gender as a category of analysis in education, by examining how the meaning of gender has been socially constructed historically within specific educational contexts. A post‐structuralist perspective is used to show how gender meaning is constructed both from competing and conflicting discourses within these specific historical contexts, and also by the transformation of existing discourses into ne…
Innovation in Collaboration
Ethnography in business is only successful if it is a cooperative, communicative endeavor. Research teams must be able to share knowledge with one another and with the client. In the absence of effective communication, time is wasted, analytic quality can suffer, and the client may lose faith in the value of the project or the value of ethnography in business. This paper will address the subject of transmissivity by defining four key needs for kn…
Visualizing History
A partir des photographies prises par D. Jenness en 1911 sur l'ile Goodenough (Papouasie), l'A. montre le rapport qu'il existe entre l'histoire et les photos. Il discute de ces photos en termes d'histoire en elles et d'histoires autour d'elles. Si la photo nie l'histoire, elle devient une structure symbolique qui peut etre lue en deux categories : l'histoire legale et l'histoire cachee. En fonction du contexte, on s'interessera d'abord a la struc…
Visualising Traces of the Past in Latin America
The articles included in this special issue address the shifting relationship between traces of the past and photography in Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present day. Looking at different forms of materiality and trace in Latin America, from pre-Columbian remains to body art and industrial ruins, this issue also understands photographs as material objects that ‘act’ within particular visual economies. In this introduction, we o…
Prehistories of the Future
Un savoir incertain. La photographie et le document anthropologique au tournant du xxe siècle
Cet article met en relation la production de documents photographiques en anthropologie et les changements épistémologiques qui affectèrent la jeune discipline moderne dans les années 1890. L'analyse se concentre sur trois textes rédigés à cette époque par des anthropologues britanniques, qui mettent en regard la photographie et la preuve anthropologique : celui d'Everard im Thurn en 1893, de Maurice V. Portman en 1896 et d'Alfred C. Haddon en 18…
Nineteenth-century photographs and architecture
This collection of essays explores the relationship between photography and architecture, or more precisely the built environment. It covers a wide range of topics, locations and styles, from nosta
Police responses to diversity
In the first decade of the 21st century, British policing faced two new challenges in how it responded to social diversity: As well as instituting reforms in response to a highly publicized report describing the British police as ‘institutionally racist’ (Macpherson, 1999 ), they faced challenges associated with rapid increases in numbers of immigrants into the UK. Studying social representations at such times of change allows access into process…
Straightforward and Ordered
The photographic survey in the late nineteenth century aimed to make photographs of traces of an English past that would stand as records for future generations. This article explores the ways in which the amateur photographers involved absorbed and connected to the values of science, especially those expressed through the activities of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and its Ethnographic Survey of the United Kingdom. It ar…
Chaucer's Knight's Tale and the Work of Mourning
In this essay I argue that in the Knight's Tale Chaucer presents a picture of the possibility of accomplishing what Freud has termed "the work of mourning"; to do so he sets out a fantasmatic world of virtuous pagans, because such work cannot in fact be accomplished in the Christian era of the author's time. The funeral and cremation of Arcite provide a starting point; they provide a scene for Chaucer's anthropologically distanced view of the pag…
An Unknown Statesman? Gaspar Fagel in the Service of William III and the Dutch Republic
William III, stadholder of the states of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Oversijssel and Gelderland (1672–1702) and king of England (1688–1702), was encouraged from an early age to be proud of his royal Stuart and Orange ancestry, and was always referred to in the Dutch Republic as His Highness the Prince of Orange. Yet his security of status within the republic was more than ordinarily dependent on the political interest of the Amsterdam merchant reg…
Malinowsk's Kiriwina
Malinowsk's Kiriwina: Fieldwork Photography 1915-1918. Michael M. Young. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1998. 306pp
Photography and Anthropological intention in Nineteenth Century Britain
El ensayo ofrece una visión crítica de la relación entre antropología y fotografía en el siglo XIX hasta el período de entreguerras en la Gran Bretaña, estudiándose, en concreto, la expresión visual que adoptó la antropología en su proceso de construcción como disciplina científica, teniendo presente el fuerte paralelismo existente entre su desarrollo y el de la fotografía
Images of Benin at the Pitt Rivers Museum
L'A. presente l'inventaire des archives visuelles, conservees au Musee Pitt Rivers (Oxford), relatives a la mise en place des collections britanniques d'objets provenant de la ville de Benin (Nigeria) a la suite de l'expedition punitive coloniale de 1897. L'A. s'est interesse principalement a des croquis (lavis, gouaches) et a des photographies prises a cette periode et s'est interroge sur la dissemination mondiale des informations concernant l'a…
Secure the Shadow
A Word-List from Missouri
Research Article| November 01 1944 A Word-List from Missouri Constance Bey; Constance Bey Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lewis E. Callison; Lewis E. Callison Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Clarissa Childers; Clarissa Childers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Elizabeth Edwards; Elizabeth Edwards Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Helen Getz; H…
French black Africa
The partition of Africa had left France in nominal possession of most of the region between the Sahara and the Congo river. The main lines of economic strategy had been shaped by the 'colonial party', a parliamentary cross-section of diverse elements. On 3 August 1914 Germany declared war on France; the next day, Britain declared war on Germany. In Togo, the conflict was soon over. As to the overall demographic effects of famine and disease in Fr…
Educational Institutions or Extended Families? The Reconstruction of Gender in Women's Colleges in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
This article aims to develop our theorisation of gender as a category of analysis in education, by examining how the meaning of gender has been socially constructed historically within specific educational contexts. A post‐structuralist perspective is used to show how gender meaning is constructed both from competing and conflicting discourses within these specific historical contexts, and also by the transformation of existing discourses into ne…
Amnesia and remembrance in the Morte Darthur
"Photographic "types
This paper is a preliminary examination of one of the ways in which anthropologists attempted to apply photography systematically within the growing body of anthropological method during the 1860s and early 1870s. It concentrates on the "type" photograph, the main purpose of which was to illustrate the characteristics of a racial group. However, a wide variety of material was categorized as "types" of anthropological interest, for the term was mo…
Alice Havergal Skillicorn, Principal of Homerton College, Cambridge, 1935-60
This article sharpens our understanding of the intersection of the discourses of gender and power in the woman principal's role by an in-depth study of Alice Havergal Skillicorn, Principal of Homerton College, Cambridge, 1935-60. Like previous principals, Skillicorn constructed a subjectivity which was dual gendered. In her public life as principal, she adopted a masculine discourse of power which subordinated feminine discourse into the private …
Gyaehlingaay
Journal Article Gyaehlingaay: Traditions, Tales, and Images of the Kaigani Haida. Ed. by Carol Eastman and Elizabeth Edwards. Traditional stories told by Lillian Pettviel and other Haida Elders. Seattle: Burke Museum Publications, 1991.131 pages. $14.95. Get access Gyaehlingaay: Traditions, Tales, and Images of the Kaigani Haida. Ed. by Carol Eastman and Elizabeth Edwards. Traditional stories told by Lillian Pettviel and other Haida Elders. Seatt…
Visualizing History
A partir des photographies prises par D. Jenness en 1911 sur l'ile Goodenough (Papouasie), l'A. montre le rapport qu'il existe entre l'histoire et les photos. Il discute de ces photos en termes d'histoire en elles et d'histoires autour d'elles. Si la photo nie l'histoire, elle devient une structure symbolique qui peut etre lue en deux categories : l'histoire legale et l'histoire cachee. En fonction du contexte, on s'interessera d'abord a la struc…
Anthropology and Photography 1860-1920
Homoerotic friendship and college principals, 1880-1960
This paper is written as a contribution to the debate on the construction and interpretation of those close relationships between women, which took place before or outside the lesbian cultures and identities which have emerged in the twentieth century. The term ‘homoerotic’ was first used by Vicinus to describe close friendships between women in residential educational communities in England during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centurie…
Jorma Puranen - Imaginary homecoming
Secure the Shadow
Impossible Science of Being Dialogues between Anthropology and Photography
Impossible Science of Being Dialogues between Anthropology and Photography. Photographers Gallery, London 20 October 1995 ‐13 January 1996 (and tour to Leeds City Art Gallery and Brighton Museum and Art Gallery)
Images of Benin at the Pitt Rivers Museum
L'A. presente l'inventaire des archives visuelles, conservees au Musee Pitt Rivers (Oxford), relatives a la mise en place des collections britanniques d'objets provenant de la ville de Benin (Nigeria) a la suite de l'expedition punitive coloniale de 1897. L'A. s'est interesse principalement a des croquis (lavis, gouaches) et a des photographies prises a cette periode et s'est interroge sur la dissemination mondiale des informations concernant l'a…
Photography and Anthropological intention in Nineteenth Century Britain
El ensayo ofrece una visión crítica de la relación entre antropología y fotografía en el siglo XIX hasta el período de entreguerras en la Gran Bretaña, estudiándose, en concreto, la expresión visual que adoptó la antropología en su proceso de construcción como disciplina científica, teniendo presente el fuerte paralelismo existente entre su desarrollo y el de la fotografía
Camera Indica
Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian Photographs. Christopher Pinney. London: Reaktion Books. 1997. 240pp, illus
Prehistories of the Future
Delivering Views
International Postcards: Their History, Production, and Distribution (Circa 1895 to 1915) Chapter 4 2. Souvenirs of Imperialism: World's Fair Postcards Chapter 5 3. Symbols, Souvenirs, and Sentiments: Postcard Imagery of Plains Indians, 1898-1918 Chapter 6 4. Japonisme and American Postcard Visions of Japan: Beauties and Workers, Cherry Blossoms and Silkworms Chapter 7 5. Transformed Images: Photographers and Postcards in the Pacific Islands Chap…
Roles, Status and Power
Contemporary interpretations of several senior regents are used in this article to demonstrate the diversity of the ruling class in Amsterdam in the 1670s and 1680s. The functions and status of Hooft, Valckenier, Geelvinck, Huydecooper, Van Beuningen, Witsen and Hudde are analysed within the context of a volatile period in the political and economic history of Amsterdam and the States of Holland. Themes, such as the decline of the regent class, p…
Torres Strait Islanders
Echanges de photographies
This paper explores the way in which photographs operated as exchange objects within the interpretative community of emerging anthropological practice in the second half of the nineteenth century. Photographs became socially salient objects, enmeshed with a visual economy which reflected complex and wide - reaching scientific and social networks. At the same time, shifts in collecting interests and the scientific value accorded to certain kinds o…
Malinowsk's Kiriwina
Malinowsk's Kiriwina: Fieldwork Photography 1915-1918. Michael M. Young. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1998. 306pp
Film reviews
Adventures in Nigeria. Tubali: Hausa Architecture of Northern Nigeria. Directed by Sabine Jell‐Bahlsen; Yusufu Mohammed, camera. 1994, 45 minutes, color. Distributed in Europe by S. Jell‐Bahlsen, Aisching 1, 83257 Gstadt, Germany. Tel: +49–8054–302; fax: +49–8054–909774. Distributed in U.S.A. by NBPC, Suite A, 761 Oak Street, Columbus, OH 43205. Tel: +614–229–4399; fax: +614–229–4398. Sale price (NTSC) $40.00; (PAL) £25.00. (Script is included wi…
Material beings
This paper argues that the material and presentational forms of photographs are central to their meaning as images. Drawing on work from the anthropology of material culture, it explores the significance of the materiality of ethnographic photographs as socially salient objects. The argument suggests that, while the analytical focus has been on the semiotic and iconographical in the representation of race and culture, material forms of images are…
An Unknown Statesman? Gaspar Fagel in the Service of William III and the Dutch Republic
William III, stadholder of the states of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Oversijssel and Gelderland (1672–1702) and king of England (1688–1702), was encouraged from an early age to be proud of his royal Stuart and Orange ancestry, and was always referred to in the Dutch Republic as His Highness the Prince of Orange. Yet his security of status within the republic was more than ordinarily dependent on the political interest of the Amsterdam merchant reg…
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