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Author Hochman, Brian, 1980-
Title Savage preservation : the ethnographic origins of modern media technology / Brian Hochman.
Publisher Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]



Descript 1 online resource (xxviii, 284 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)
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Contents Introduction: the Passamaquoddy experiment -- Media evolution: Indians, alphabets, and the technological measures of man -- Representing Plains Indian sign language -- Originals and Aboriginals: race and writing in the age of the phonograph -- Race, empire, and the skin of the ethnographic image -- Local colors: the work of the autochrome -- Postscript: fictions of permanence.
ISBN 9781452910994 (electronic bk.)
1452910995 (electronic bk.)
9781452949123
1452949123
9780816681372
0816681376
9780816681389
0816681384
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Author Hochman, Brian, 1980-
Subject Ethnology -- Fieldwork.
Anthropology -- Fieldwork.
Mass media -- Technological innovations.
Mass media -- Social aspects.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Technology and civilization.
Descript 1 online resource (xxviii, 284 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript data file
Contents Introduction: the Passamaquoddy experiment -- Media evolution: Indians, alphabets, and the technological measures of man -- Representing Plains Indian sign language -- Originals and Aboriginals: race and writing in the age of the phonograph -- Race, empire, and the skin of the ethnographic image -- Local colors: the work of the autochrome -- Postscript: fictions of permanence.
ISBN 9781452910994 (electronic bk.)
1452910995 (electronic bk.)
9781452949123
1452949123
9780816681372
0816681376
9780816681389
0816681384
Author Hochman, Brian, 1980-
Subject Ethnology -- Fieldwork.
Anthropology -- Fieldwork.
Mass media -- Technological innovations.
Mass media -- Social aspects.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Technology and civilization.

Subject Ethnology -- Fieldwork.
Anthropology -- Fieldwork.
Mass media -- Technological innovations.
Mass media -- Social aspects.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Technology and civilization.
Descript 1 online resource (xxviii, 284 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript data file
Contents Introduction: the Passamaquoddy experiment -- Media evolution: Indians, alphabets, and the technological measures of man -- Representing Plains Indian sign language -- Originals and Aboriginals: race and writing in the age of the phonograph -- Race, empire, and the skin of the ethnographic image -- Local colors: the work of the autochrome -- Postscript: fictions of permanence.
ISBN 9781452910994 (electronic bk.)
1452910995 (electronic bk.)
9781452949123
1452949123
9780816681372
0816681376
9780816681389
0816681384

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