Introduction: "How the other half..." / Christopher Pinney
1. PERSONAL ARCHIVES
Relating to photographs / Jo-Anne Driessens
Growing up with aborigines / Michael Aird
When is a photograph worth a thousand words? / Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie
2. VISUAL ECONOMIES
The making of professional "savages": from P.T. Barnum (1883) to the Sunday Times (1998) / Roslyn Poignant
Navajo and photography / James Faris
The Japanese colonial eye: science, exploration, and empire / Morris Low
The changing photographic contract: aborigines and image ethics / Nicolas Peterson
Supple bodies: the Papua New Guinea photographs of Captain Francis R. Barton, 1899-1907 / Christopher Wright
3. SELF-FASHIONING AND VERNACULAR MODERNISM
Figueroa Aznar and the Cusco Indigenistas: photography and modernism in early-twentieth-century Peru / Deborah Poole
Notes from the surface of the image: photography, postcolonialism, and vernacular modernism / Chrisopher Pinney
Imagined journeys: the Likoni Ferry phototgrpahers of Mombasa, Kenya / Heike Behrend
Yoruba photogrpahy: how the Yoruba see themselves / Stephen Sprague