Nostalgia for the Present
Ethnography and Photography in a Moroccan Berber Village
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5834153 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bart Deseyn, David Crawford (0000-0002-3850-4074), Abdelkrim Bamouh |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 145 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Nostalgia for the Present (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Leiden University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.26530/oapen_611490 |
| OpenAlex | W202941449 |
| Open Library | OL28359143M |
| ISBN | 9789087282110 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
Anthropology and photography have been linked since the nineteenth century, but their relationship has never been entirely comfortable-and has grown less so in recent years. Nostalgia for the Present aims to repair that relationship by involving intentional participants in an inclusive conversation; it is the fruit of a collaboration among an ethnographer, a photographer, a group of Moroccan farmers, and Abdelkrim Bamouh-a native intellectual whose deep understanding of rural Morocco made him not merely a translator but a facilitator of the dialogue. The result is an arresting portrait of everyday life in Tagharghist, a contemporary High Atlas village. The pictures are central, and the text bilt around them creates a dialogical form of visual ethnography. Nostalgia for the Present is both a memorialization of a people and a way of life, and a rich foray into the potential of interdisciplinary collaboration. The photos in this book evoke a sense of nostalgia, a longing, and the words explore the contexts and ambiguities that vitalize it. As the book concludes, nostalgia happens in our present, and is about our future. It is a call from our heart (or our liver, as villagers would say) to attend carefully to something we are leaving, something our gut tells us we ought to cherish and preserve, and bring with us on our inexorable march into the unknown
Art · Ethnography · Geography · Photography · Sociology · Visual arts · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Africa · Berbers · Documentary photography · Morocco · Photographic reportage · Photography in ethnology · Pictorial works · Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography · Social life and customs
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |