Memory, History and Society: An Interdisciplinary Seminar
Elizabeth Edwards
(University of the Arts, London)
Recording Our Past: History, Memory and the Photographic Survey Movement
21 March 2006
4.00 pm
The Seminar Room
Humanity Manse
19 College Bounds
Aberdeen
[Formerly Head of Photograph Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum,
University of Oxford, Prof. Edwards is author of Raw Histories: Photographs,
Anthropology and Museums (2001) and (edited with Janice Hart) Photographs,
Objects, Histories: On the Materiality of Images (2004). Her research spans
several areas including: photographs as a form of material culture; the
social construction of photographic truth values; the 19th-century
photographic market; visual material in ethnographic museums; and early
photography in the Pacific. Her paper will consider the photographic survey
movement as an exercise in popular historical consciousness, ‘collective
memory’ and national identity].
Jointly hosted by the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies and
the Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen
ALL WELCOME
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