The Anthropologist as Photographer

Reading the Monograph and Reading the Archive

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7429917
AutoresChristopher Morton (0000-0002-3358-591X, Pitt Rivers Museum, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen18
Número4
Páginas389-405
Fecha de publicación2005-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaVisual Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0894-9468 • E-ISSN: 1545-5920
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08949460590958400
OpenAlexW2028786205
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas15

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. An early development of the biographical approach to material culture was Igor Kopytoff's [1986 Kopytoff , Igor 1986 The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process . In The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective . A. Appadurai , ed. Pp. 64 – 91 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]] contribution to Appadurai's influential edited volume. Recent work that highlights the biographical dimensions of photographs as cultural objects can be found in Edwards [2001 Edwards , Elizabeth 2001 Material Beings: Objecthood and Ethnographic Photographs . Visual Studies , 12 ( 1 ): 67 – 75 . [CSA] [Google Scholar]] and Edwards and Hart [2004a Edwards , Elizabeth , and Janice Hart 2004a Introduction . In Photographs Objects Histories. On the Materiality of Images . Elizabeth Edwards and Janice Hart , eds. Pp. 1 – 15 . London and New York : Routledge . [Google Scholar] and 2004b 2004b Mixed Box: The Cultural Biography of a Box of 'Ethnographic Photographs.' In Photographs Objects Histories. On the Materiality of Images . Elizabeth Edwards and Janice Hart , eds. Pp. 47 – 61 . London and New York : Routledge . [Google Scholar]]. 2. "Recovering the Material and Visual Cultures of the Southern Sudan: A Museological Resource" is a two-year project (2003–2005) funded by a grant to Jeremy Coote and Elizabeth Edwards of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, from the Resource Enhancement Scheme of the Arts and Humanities Research Board (grant number: B/RE/AN4817/APN15467). The support of the AHRB is gratefully acknowledged here. 3. Letter dated 15.5.1969 from Oxford University Press, New York Office, to Head Office, Oxford, on the subject of the first paperback edition of The Nuer [Oxford University Press Archive ref: PB/ED/001071 OP214]. 4. Plate VIIa (facing page 62) in The Nuer was first published as Plate VIb (facing page 224) in Sudan Notes and Records, 20(3), 1937a. Plate VIIb (facing page 62) was first published as Plate VIIa (facing page 232) in Sudan Notes and Records, 20(3), 1937a. Plate VIII (facing page 68) was first published as Plate V (facing page 216) in SNR, 20(3), 1937a. Plate XVa & b (facing page 134) was first published as Plate IIIa & b (facing page 74) in SNR, 17(1), 1935. Plate XXIa (facing page 200) was first published as Plate VIa (facing page 224) in SNR, 18(3), 1937a. Plate XXIb (facing page 200) was first published as Plate VIIb (facing page 232) in SNR, 18(3), 1937a. Plate XXVIa & b (facing page 236) was published with the youth with ash-covered hair to the right, as Plate II (facing page 42) in SNR 18(1), 1935. These two images are credited to the District Commissioner F. D. Corfield in The Nuer, but not in SNR. Plates XXV and XXVIII in The Nuer (five images) are taken from blocks made for C.G. and B.Z. Seligman [1932 Seligman , C. G. , and B. Z. Seligman 1932 Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan . London : Routledge and Kegan Paul . [Google Scholar]]. As with the blocks from SNR, some of these blocks were subsequently kept together to form plates in The Nuer, although the picture editor at Oxford University Press swapped several of them around to form new plates and thereby a new visual narrative. Other noted sources in The Nuer are the Royal Air Force; the American Presbyterian Mission at Nasir (probably Blanche Cora Soule); Yuzbashi (i.e., Captain) Talib Ismail, a Sudanese officer who served in Upper Nile Province as a sub-mamur at Akobo 1920–1927; E. S. Crispin (medical officer in Sudan from 1904); Frederick L. Hamer, Assistant and District Commissioner for Eastern Nuerland 1932–1936; Frank D. Corfield, District Commissioner in Nasir District of Upper Nile Province 1931–1935. 5. In a letter (unsigned) from Oxford University Press to Evans-Pritchard, dated 11th June 1945, the writer argues that book production charges had risen 50 percent over prewar levels, and that illustrations for his proposed book on the Sanusi would have to be modest [Oxford University Press Archive ref: PB/ED/001071 OP214]. 6. A photograph of this type of gesture can be seen in another of Evans-Pritchard's books [Evans-Pritchard 1990 1990 Kinship and Marriage Among the Nuer . Oxford : Clarendon Press ; (original 1951) . [Google Scholar], Plate VII] entitled "A youth singing in praise of his ox. His arms are raised in imitation of its horns." 7. "An adult Gaweir may not milk cattle or grind corn. It is said that a man who milks his own cow will die..." [Johnson 1993 Johnson , Douglas , ed. 1979 Nuer or Shilluk? Man , 14(1) : 165 . [Google Scholar]: 33]. 8. Figure 5 has the original film number [28/4 A232], Figure 6 [28/4 A234], and Figure 7 [28/4 A235], all annotated by Evans-Pritchard on the negative and contact print reverse. 9. The ambatch-wood parrying shield the man is carrying is referred to explicitly on page 86 of The Nuer. An illustration of this type of object is reproduced in Evans-Pritchard's Nuer Religion [1974 1974 Nuer Religion . New York and Oxford : Oxford University Press ; (original 1956) . [Google Scholar] (1956): 251], captioned "Fig. 5 Hollowed-out ambatch log, used as stool, &c." It was drawn by Louis Clarke from the shield that E-P collected in 1936 among the western Nuer and donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1937 [PRM 1937.34.44]. The Museum accession volume includes the description: "Ghur, short parrying-shield of ambatch, with pockets for tobacco & trifles." 10. In a footnote, Wolbert acknowledges correspondence in 1996 from Elizabeth Edwards, Head of Photograph Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, as her source for technical information on the Evans-Pritchard archive. The Museum however always issues such correspondence with the caveat that such brief information cannot be reproduced in any authoritative manner given the partial nature of research on most collections. Such a caveat inevitably applied to the Evans-Pritchard collection, which had never been fully catalogued before the current project began in 2003

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