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The ones that are wanted : communication and the politics of representation in a photographic exhibition /

The Okiek people of Kenya's forested highlands have a long history of hunting, honey gathering, and trading with their Maasai and Kipsigis neighbors; several decades ago, they also began farming and herding. This book follows a traveling exhibition of anthropologist Corinne Kratz's photogr...

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Main Author: Kratz, Corinne Ann, 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Dorobo (African people) > Portraits > Exhibitions.
Dorobo (African people) > Portraits > Public opinion > Exhibitions.
Public opinion > United States.
Dorobo (African people) > Attitudes > Exhibitions.
Photography in ethnology.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0520222814
9780520222816
0520222822
9780520222823
1597347841
9781597347846
0520924665
9780520924666
0585469342
9780585469348
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Tracing Okiek portraits: images, exhibitions, and the politics of representation
  • Producing Okiek portraits: collaboration, negotiation, and exhibitionary authority
  • Imagining audiences: Okiek portraits in Kenya
  • Imagining audiences: Okiek portraits and the United States
  • The final venues: designing and defining interpretation
  • Appendix A. The politics of representation and identities
  • Appendix B. Key relationships represented in Okiek portraits
  • Appendix C. Learning about visitors in Michigan and Georgia.

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