Through an intensive examination of photographs and engravings from European, Peruvian, and U.S. archives, Deborah Poole explores the role visual images and technologies have played in shaping modern ...understandings of race. Vision, Race, and Modernity traces the subtle shifts that occurred in European and South American depictions of Andean Indians from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, and explains how these shifts led to the modern concept of "racial difference." While Andean peoples were always thought of as different by their European describers, it was not until the early nineteenth century that European artists and scientists became interested in developing a unique visual and typological language for describing their physical features. Poole suggests that this "scientific" or "biological" discourse of race cannot be understood outside a modern visual economy. Although the book specifically documents the depictions of Andean peoples, Poole's findings apply to the entire colonized world of the nineteenth century. Poole presents a wide range of images from operas, scientific expeditions, nationalist projects, and picturesque artists that both effectively elucidate her argument and contribute to an impressive history of photography. Vision, Race, and Modernity is a fascinating attempt to study the changing terrain of racial theory as part of a broader reorganization of vision in European society and culture.
Ants are among the most conspicuous and the most ecologically important of insects. This concise, easy-to-use, authoritative identification guide introduces the fascinating and diverse ant fauna of ...the United States and Canada. It features the first illustrated key to North American ant genera, discusses distribution patterns, explores ant ecology and natural history, and includes a list of all currently recognized ant species in this large region. * New keys to the 73 North American ant genera illustrated with 250 line drawings ensure accurate identification * 180 color images show the head and profile of each genus and important species groups * Includes a glossary of important terms
Picturing Pity is the first full length monograph on missionary photography. Empirically, it is based on an in-depth analysis of the published photographs taken by Norwegian evangelical missionaries ...in Northern Cameroon from the early nineteen twenties, at the beginning of their activities in this region, and until today. Being part of a large international movement, Norway sent out more missionaries per capita than any other country in Europe. Marianne Gullestad's main contention is that the need to continuously justify their activities to donors in Europe has led to the creation and maintenance of specific ways of portraying Africans. The missionary visual rhetoric is both based on earlier visualizations and has over time established its own conventions which can now also be traced within secular fields of activity such as international development agencies, foreign policy, human relief organizations and the mass media. Picturing Pity takes part in the present "pictorial turn" in academic teaching and research, constituting visual images as an exciting site of conversation across disciplinary lines.
This is the first color-illustrated guide to polypores and
similar fungi specific to the eastern and central regions of the
United States and Canada. Welcoming and comprehensive, it
accurately ...presents the currently available information about
polypores, emphasizes identification based primarily on macroscopic
field characters, and includes observational data drawn from the
authors' extensive experience. It includes new species and genera;
addresses changing nomenclature; and provides details about
polypores' biology, morphology, composition, role as parasites,
interactions with various arthropods, and purported medicinal
applications. The book also highlights how changes in geology, soil
structure, and plant species due to factors such as continental
drift and climate change have affected the evolution of polypores.
Featuring more than 240 species of polypores, extensive and
easy-to-use dichotomous keys, and more than 300 color illustrations
and multiple maps and line drawings, it is a must-have for amateur
and professional mycologists, forest service personnel,
mycophagists, and anyone interested in learning more about this
remarkable group of fungi.
The first of its kind, Bison: Portrait of an Icon tells the story of this distinctly American species--its history, majesty, cultural significance, and comeback story--through stunning, dramatic ...photography and the voices of ranchers, policy makers, artists, and Native American tribal herd managers throughout the Great Plains and Mountain West.
A Cold War tourist and his camera Langford, Martha; Langford, John W
A Cold War tourist and his camera,
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A photographic tour of hot spots in Europe, America, Canada, and Africa during the height of the Cold War.
John Calvin Allen, professionally known as J. C., worked as a
photographer for Purdue University from 1909-1952, and operated his
own photography business until his death in 1976. The J. C. Allen
...photographs represent a historical account of the transition from
pioneer practices to scientific methodologies in agriculture and
rural communities. During this major transitional period for
agriculture, tractors replaced horses, hybrid corn supplanted
open-pollinated corn, and soybeans changed from a novelty crop to
regular rotation on most farms. During this time, purebred animals
with better genetic pedigrees replaced run-of-the-mill livestock,
and systematic disease prevention in cattle, swine, and poultry
took place.
Allen's photographs also document clothing styles, home
furnishings, and the items people thought important as they went
about their daily lives. Looking closely at tractors, livestock,
wagons, planters, sprayers, harvesting equipment, and crops gives
one a sense of the changing and fast-paced world of agriculture at
that time.
This volume contains over 900 picturesque images, most
never-before-seen, of men, women, and children working on the farm,
which remain powerful reminders of life in rural America at the
turn of the twentieth century. As old farmhouses and barns fall
victim to age, Allen photographs are all that remain. While those
people and times no longer exist today, they do remain "alive"
because of the preservation of that history on film. A camera in
his hands and an eye for photography allowed Allen to create
indelible visual histories that continue to tell the story of
agriculture and rural life from long ago.
