Table of Contents

Introduction - Part I Photography & the Ethnographic Encounter - Richard Vokes
Double Alienation: Evans-Pritchard's Zande & Nuer Photographs in Comparative Perspective - Christopher Morton
Photographing 'the Bridge': Product & Process in the Analysis of a Social Situation in Non-modern Zululand - Chris Wingfield
Frontier Photographs: Northern Kenya & the Paul Baxter Collection - Neil Carrier and Kimo Quaintance
Memories of a Blue Nile Home: Still Picture, Moving Contexts & Multimedia Linkage - Wendy James
Memories of a Blue Nile Home: Still Picture, Moving Contexts & Multimedia Linkage - Part II Picturing the Nation: Photography, Memory & Resistance - Judith Aston
Emptying the Gallery: The Archive's Fuller Circle - Erin Haney
'Ca Bouscoulait!': Democratization & Photography in Senegal - Jennifer Bajorek
'A Once & Future Eden': Gorongosa National Park & the Making of Mozambique - Katie McKeown
Reflections on Urban Space, the Visual & Political Affect in Kabila's Kinshasa - Part III The Social Life of Photographs - Katrien Pype
On 'the Ultimate Patronage Machine': Photography & Substantial Relations in Rural South-western Uganda - Richard Vokes
'The Terror of the Feast': Photography, Textiles & Memory in Weddings along the East African Coast - Heike Behrend
Ceremonies, Sitting Rooms & Albums: How Okiek Displayed Photographs in the 1990s - Corinne Kratz

Reviews

The collection is an important and nuanced contribution that will be of wide interest to Africanists, and scholars concerned with photography, imperialism and postcolonialism.
*ANTHROPOLOGICAL FORUM*

A valuable companion for the broad themes it explores.
*AUSTRALASIAN REVIEW OF AFRICAN STUDIES*

These essays and Richard Vokes's presentation offer fascinating examples of photography's intersection with ethnography.
*AFRICAN AFFAIRS*

Richard Vokes's edited work, Photography in Africa: Ethnographic Perspectives, includes essays that dissect the role of photography (as image and practice) within anthropologists' ethnographic work, and it is this historically and ethnographically informed attention to the construction of the photographic archive on Africa that presents a new lens to consider the overlap, and even lack of distinction, between genres like 'vernacular' and official, or 'state,' photography.
*AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW*