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Savage preservation : the ethnographic origins of modern media technology
Title
Savage preservation : the ethnographic origins of modern media technology / Brian Hochman.
ISBN
9781452949123 (ebook) :
Publication
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Copyright Notice Date
©2014
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxviii, 284 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
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Summary
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, American writers and anthropologists believed that evolutionary forces had pushed the world's primitive races to the brink of extinction. They also believed that films, photographs, and phonograph recordings were specially suited to capture and preserve primitive life before it disappeared forever. Drawing extensively on seldom-seen archival sources, the book considers how the ethnographic project of racial documentation shaped audiovisual innovation, experimentation, and use in turn-of-the-century America.
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Minnesota scholarship online.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 05, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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