
Recreating First Contact
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Alison K. Brown is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen. She has undertaken fieldwork and museum-based research in western and subarctic Canada and northern Scotland on projects that address the ways in which artefacts and photographs can be used to think about colonialism and its legacies. She is co-author of Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa/Pictures Bring us Messages: Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation (2006) with Laura Peers and members of the Kainai Nation, and is currently working on a book that addresses the relationships between First Nations and British museums.
Robert J. Gordon is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of the Free State in South Africa and the University of Vermont. His area focus is on southern Africa and Papua New Guinea. His eclectic interests range from violence, law, and state making/breaking to the media and dogs. Among his books are Law and Order in the New Guinea Highlands (1985) with Mervyn Meggitt, The Bushman Myth (1992), Tarzan was an Eco-Tourist (2006) co-edited with Luis Vivanco, and most recently, Going Abroad: Travelling like an Anthropologist (2010).
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Expeditions, Their Films and Histories: An Introduction
- Moving Image Technology and Archives
- Ethnographic Film Practices in Silent German Cinema
- Grass Before Kong: "Natives" In the Films of Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack
- First Contact as Real Contact: The 1926/27 Soviet Polar Census Expedition to Turukhansk Territory
- Camping Among the Indians: Visual Education and the Sponsored Expedition Film at the American Museum of Natural History
- Mistaken Gods and Other Misnomers of First Contact of the U.S. Department of Agriculture 1928 Sugarcane Expedition to New Guinea
- "Beyond the End of Steel": Recasting the Franklin Motor Expedition to Canada
- On Safari with Martin and OSA Johnson
- The Riddle of Hell's Jungle: Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel's Expeditions to the Primeval Forests of Liberia and the Amazon During the 1930s
- Africa Speaks (But to Whom?): Expeditionary Anthropology in a Minor Key
- "Primitive Blacks Face White Man's Laws": The 1932 Anthropological Expedition to MT. Liebig, Central Australia
- "The Africa I Know": Film and the Making of "Bushmen" In Laurens Van der Post's Lost World of Kalahari (1956)
- Afterword
- Appendix: Films, Technology, and Institutional Histories
- Notes on the Contributors
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