Publication

2006-01-20 - University of Toronto Press

Language

English

Word Count

105,000 words, Guess

Page Count

420 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2006271500
  • Goodreads1934590
  • LibraryThing8382722

Classifications

  • LCCE99.K15B76 2006

Description

"In 1925, Beatrice Blackwood of the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum took thirty-three photographs of Kainai people on the Blood Indian Reserve in Alberta as part of an anthropological project. In 2001, staff from the museum took copies of these photographs back to the Kainai and worked with community members to try to gain a better understanding of their perspectives on the images. 'Pictures Bring Us Messages' is about that process, about why museum professionals and archivists must work with such communities, and about some of the considerations that need to be addressed when doing so."--Jacket.

First Sentence

Just as the Blackfoot language builds up images in the minds of listeners - slightly different images, according to associations made by each individual listener - so Blackwood's photographs of Kainai people take on different meanings according to the contexts in which they have been placed.

Subjects

Topics

AlbertaHistoryCatalogsHistoireSociologyPortraitsMethodology

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