Picturing a Colonial Past: The African Photographs of Isaac Schapera by Comaroff, John L.

Picturing a Colonial Past: The African Photographs of Isaac Schapera (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226114125)

Vendor: John L. Comaroff
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$40.00
$40.00
$40.00
Subtotal: $40.00
Picturing a Colonial Past: The African Photographs of Isaac Schapera by Comaroff, John L.

Picturing a Colonial Past: The African Photographs of Isaac Schapera

$40.00
Picturing a Colonial Past: The African Photographs of Isaac Schapera by Comaroff, John L.

Picturing a Colonial Past: The African Photographs of Isaac Schapera

$40.00
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x
This volume presents for the first time the selected photographs of the renowned British anthropologist Isaac Schapera (1905-2003). Taken between 1929 and 1934, largely during his earliest work among the Kgatla peoples of Bechuanaland (now Botswana), the 136 images in this selection reveal an emotional engagement and aesthetic impulse that Schapera seldom expressed in his writings. Covering a broad spectrum of daily activities, they include depictions of everything from pot making, thatching, and cattle herding to village architecture, vernacular medicine, and rainmaking ceremonies. Visually fascinating and of exceptional quality, these images capture the uniqueness of an African people in a particular time and place. They are contexualized and their significance explained in Jean and John Comaroff's insightful introduction, while Adam Kuper's illuminating biographical sketch of Schapera provides new insight into the life of the photographer. Picturing a Colonial Past reveals not only a rare side of old Botswana, but also of one of the most famous anthropologist who worked there.

Author: John L. Comaroff
ISBN-10: 0226114120
ISBN-13: 9780226114125
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2007
Pages: 234
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.43h x 8.45w x 0.51d
By John L. Comaroff
By John L. Comaroff
x

Jean Comaroff is the Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago. John L. Comaroff is the Harold W. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and a senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation. Both are also honorary professors at the University of Cape Town. Deborah James is reader in the Department of Anthropology and member of the Center for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics.

Recently Viewed Products