Yoruba Photography: How the Yoruba See Themselves

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: ‘‘How the Other Half . . .’’ 1
5. 1. Personal Archives
6. Relating to Photographs 17
7. Growing Up with Aborigines 23
8. When Is a Photograph Worth a Thousand Words? 40
9. 2. Visual Economies
10. The Making of Professional ‘‘Savages’’: From P. T. Barnum (1883) to the Sunday Times (1998) 55
11. Navajo and Photography 85
12. The Japanese Colonial Eye: Science, Exploration, and Empire 100
13. The Changing Photographic Contract: Aborigines and Image Ethics 119
14. Supple Bodies: The Papua New Guinea Photographs of Captain Francis R. Barton, 1899–1907 146
15. 3. Self-Fashioning and Vernacular Modernism
16. Figueroa Aznar and the Cusco Indigenistas: Photography and Modernism in Early-Twentieth-Century Peru 173
17. Notes from the Surface of the Image: Photography, Postcolonialism, and Vernacular Modernism 202
18. Imagined Journeys: The Likoni Ferry Photographers of Mombasa, Kenya 221
19. Yoruba Photography: How the Yoruba See Themselves 240
20. Works Cited 261
21. Contributors 277
22. Index 279