Beschreibung:
Emilie Le Febvre received her DPhil and MSc from the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford.
Introducing a novel anthropological study of photography in the Middle East, Emilie Le Febvre takes us to the Naqab Desert where Bedouin use photographs to make, and respond to, their own histories.
Preface: Ethnonyms and Being Bedouin Introduction: Contours of Place, People, and Ethnography Part One - Histories 1. Naqab Bedouin Social History and Historiography 2. Making Histories in a Bedouin Society Part Two - Photography 3. Anthropology of Bedouin Photography and Photographs 4. Photographic Presences and Entangled Visual Economies Part Three - Photographs 5. Circulating Images: Tribal Histories of Lineages 6. Circulating Images: Community Histories Conclusion: Historical Persuasion and Photographs in the Desert