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100 1 $aGordon, Robert J.,$d1947-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81147438
245 10 $aPicturing bushmen :$bthe Denver African Expedition of 1925 /$cRobert J. Gordon.
246 30 $aDenver African Expedition of 1925
260 $aAthens :$bOhio University Press,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $axiii, 208 pages :$billustrations ;$c27 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 189-200) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe People of the Expedition: Organization and Aims --$g2.$tThe Route of the Expedition --$g3.$tLooking at the Photographs --$g4.$tThe Expedition as Vision Quest --$g5.$tThe Public Imagery of the Expedition --$g6.$tNamibia at the Time of the Expedition --$g7.$tOn Persisting Images and Bushman Fairy Tales --$tConclusion: Is the Joke On Us? --$gApp. A.$tThe Film The Bushman --$gApp. B.$tCatalog of Photographs Taken on the Expedition.
520 $aThe Denver African Expedition went to Africa in 1925 to "seek the cradle of Humanity." The explorers claimed to have found the "Missing Link" in the Heikum bushmen of the Kalahari - and they proceeded to market this image. As Robert J. Gordon shows in Picturing Bushmen, the impact of the expedition lay not simply in its slick merchandising of bushmen images but also in the fact that the pictures were exotic and aesthetically pleasing.
520 8 $aThe Denver Expedition played a key role in romanticizing bushmen. Indeed, its image of bushmen has permeated Western mass culture. Before the expedition, bushmen commonly had been presented on postcards as impoverished savages. In its wake, the bushmen of South Africa have inspired not only commercial advertisements, but art exhibitions and novels.
520 8 $aAlthough Rob Gordon is an anthropologist, this study ranges into questions of film theory, history, and popular culture.
520 8 $aIt offers a new perspective on coffee-table books, ethnology, and the nature of research on those labeled "others." While suggesting how "ethnographic photographs" might be appreciated, Picturing Bushmen is also a subtle analysis of the perennial issues that haunt field workers - especially what and how they "see" and how their perception is influenced by the mundane in their own societies.
650 0 $aHeikum (African people)$vPictorial works.
611 20 $aDenver African Expedition$d(1925-1926)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97010993
650 0 $aPhotography in ethnology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85101312
650 0 $aKhoikhoi (African people)$xPublic opinion.
650 0 $aSan (African people)$xPublic opinion.
650 0 $aPublic opinion$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010105279
852 00 $boff,glx$hDT1558.H45$iG67 1997
852 00 $bleh$hDT1558.H45$iG67 1997