Framing Globalization: Wedding Pictures, Funeral Photography, and Family Snapshots in Rural China

Autor: Eriberto P. Lozada
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Visual Anthropology. 19:87-103
ISSN: 1545-5920
0894-9468
DOI: 10.1080/08949460500374049
Popis: Photography and its associated commodities can be seen as a “technology of globalization” in that its consumption directly feeds images into localized mediascapes that inform the contemporary work of the imagination. This article explores how local uses of the camera and photographs, especially in rituals such as weddings and funerals, provide resources for what Appadurai [1996] calls “experiments with self-making.” Based on fieldwork in 1996–1998 in a southern Chinese village, where I often fulfilled a community role as photographer, I will examine how people used photographs as expressions of kinship and community identity. At another level, I will examine how villagers themselves composed photographs. Based on my collections of photographs taken by people in Little Rome, I will explore how their composing and framing of pictures clearly reveal elements of what people in Little Rome considered their place in the pursuit of the good life within Chinese modernity.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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