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| Autore principale: | Ghezzi, Agnese.
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| Titolo: | The handbook, the field and the archive : photographic practices and the rise of anthropology in Italy, 1861-1911 / Agnese Ghezzi. |
| Note: | Tesi di dottorato in Analysis and management of cultural heritage, XXXII ciclo, Scuola IMT Alti studi Lucca, 2020 Tutor: Linda Bertelli, Kelley Wilder |
| Abstract: | The thesis analyses the various forms of encounters between a medium - photography - and a discipline - anthropology - in the specific geographical and historical context of the Italian nation-state between 1861 and 1911. The research analyses the diverse functions that photography played in the birth and institutionalization of anthropology in Italy, contributing to defining methods, building evidence, and shaping collecting practices. Moreover, it considers how this newly established community of anthropologists shaped the use and understanding of the medium. The study looks at the connection between photography and anthropology from different angles (institutions, networks, archives, exhibitions): the first chapter contextualise the historical period and present the main actors and institutions; the second chapter considers how anthropological photography was perceived and defined at the discursive level, tracing references to photography in anthropological founding statutes and handbooks for travellers and analysing how questions of evidence, objectivity, and observation were addressed; the third chapter moves from theory to practice to understand how anthropological photography was carried out in the field, who the actual photographers were, and how the photographic encounter took place; chapter 4 addresses pictures not from an authorial point of view but from the standpoint of the archive, considering the procesess of stratification, gathering and assemblage of pictures in private or institutional collections; the last chapter relates to processes of identity-making by examining the attention to Italian people and traditions, with a specific focus on ethnographic exhibitions. The main institutions investigated are the Museo di Etnologia e Antropologia (Florence), the Museo Preistorico Etnografico Luigi Pigorini (Rome), the Società Geografica Italiana (Rome), the Istituto Centrale per il Patrimonio Immateriale (Rome), Castello D'Albertis Museo delle Culture del Mondo (Genoa). The research engages with different methodological approaches, combining the history of photography with the history of science, visual anthropology and visual culture studies, postcolonial studies and research on nation-building, research on museums and the history of collecting |
| Altri autori: | Bertelli, Linda.
Wilder, Kelley. Scuola IMT Alti studi (Lucca). |
| Collezione tematica: | Tesi di dottorato di interesse storico-scientifico (Italia).
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