Appropriating Anthropology
Document and Rhetoric
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2390777 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine De Lorenzo (0000-0003-3154-1443, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 91-113 |
| Publication date | 2000-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Material Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/135918350000500105 |
| OpenAlex | W2168026783 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
The use of Copyright Registers by photographers and other artists provides a useful barometer of cultural assumptions over the period from the 1870s to the 1950s. This paper will explore images that both appropriate and subvert anthropological claims about Aboriginality. It is possible to demonstrate that whilst the field appears to require an engagement with anthropologically-derived visual constructions of 'authenticity' and 'Aboriginality', commercial photographers used this anchoring as a base from which to project diverse and contested claims of Aboriginality. I will argue, however, that commercial photographers did not so much diminish or contaminate an anthropological paradigm as extend a rhetorical activity of inventing and reinventing authenticity
Aesthetics · Art · Field (mathematics · Literature · Period (music · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Photography and Visual Culture
The Burden of Representation
Studying Visual Communication
Principles of Visual Anthropology
Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology (Henry Holt Reference Book) Four Volumes
In a Pic’s Eye
Photography for Anthropologists
Anthropological Uses of the Camera
Malinowski's ethnographic photography
Can Culture Be Copyrighted
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |