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Following the socialist revolution, a colossal shift in everyday realities began in the 1920s and '30s in the former Russian empire. Faced with the Siberian North, a vast territory considered culturally and technologically backward by the revolutionary government, the Soviets confidently undertook the project of reshaping the ordinary lives of the indigenous peoples in order to fold them into the Soviet state. In Agitating Images, Craig Campbell draws a rich and unsettling cultural portrait of the encounter between indigenous Siberians and Russian communists and reveals how photographs from th

Appealing for more serious scholarship on this country and its history, takes a theme of mythology to explore how such history may be created/recreated, invoking the Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front and the international community. Important questions about nationalism arise from the way recent publications use such mythology. LAB

Nothing can depict the scene of a crime, fire, or accident as well as a photograph. As permanent records, photographs are most essential. It thus becomes vital for an investigator to be reasonably well-versed in the art of photography. The uniqueness of this volume lies in its approach to investigative photography. It discusses not only what to photograph, but it also carefully explains why various things should be captured on film. This how-to-do-it manual is written in nontechnical language and is directed primarily toward police and fire personnel, private security officers and investigator

Summary New applications for photography in the scientific illustration of plants are offered by digital image manipulation, but have, to date, been little exploited. The evolving role of photography in botanical illustration is discussed, with particular emphasis on recently developed techniques of digitally created composite illustrations, their benefits and the potential of such images for further development. The technique is seen as a natural development of the composite watercolour or line illustrations that are familiar to all botanists.

This article represents an attempt to approach the notion of colonial discourse and photography more closely with the exigencies that put Morocco under the zoom of the colonial lens. This photographic documentation shows that nations, Morocco, in this case, were annexed to imperial powers through the utilization of various means of representation. This annexation was carried out not only by military officers, missionaries and spies but also by cartographers, travel writers and photographers who never ceased to polish the lens of their cameras so as to be able to represent indigenous identities, as well as their social lifestyles, and cultures. Therefore, the purpose of the present work is to sketch the colonial experience that links the imperializers with the imperialized through chronological documentation of colonial power and domination. Therefore, the main interest centres around the question of rereading this colonial history by analyzing and questioning colonial photography and its role in colonial expansion over Morocco. Besides, it is to unmask the alleged objective embedded in this country's 'civilizing mission'.

Frontiers in the Middle Ages -- Medieval Latin metaphors -- Metaphors for religion life in the Middle Ages -- The abstraction of personal qualities in the Middle Ages -- L'idea di innovazione nel XII secolo -- The relation between the sun and the moon in Medieval thought (to 1200) -- The dislocation of Jerusalem in the Middle Ages -- The crow of St Vincent: on the continuity of a hagiographical motif -- The concept of princeps in Gratian's decretum -- Love and do what you will: the Medieval history of an Augustinian precept -- Monastic letter writing in the Middle Ages -- Communications between religious houses in the Middle Ages -- The future of Cluniac studies -- Religious history -- From church history to religion culture: the study of Medieval religion life and spirituality -- Introduction, Medieval scholarship -- The many Middle Ages: Medieval studies in Europe as seen from America.

Relationships between anthrop & history have varied signif'ly with diff anthrop'al trends & Sch's of thought, such as evolutionism, diffusionism, functionalism or structuralism. Over the past decade, the methods of soc anthrop have been applied to the establishment of historiographic data for peoples whose traditional outlook did not include the idea of 'objective' history. Such anthropol'al work is helped by the use of auxiliary techniques & by the development of certain forms of historical consciousness in traditional societies. Yet the anthrop'st must put himself at the service of historiography & cannot take the place of the historian. HA.

"Going beyond photography as an isolated medium to engage larger questions and interlocking forms of expression and historical analysis, Ambivalent gathers a new generation of scholars based on the continent to offer an expansive frame for thinking about questions of photography and visibility in Africa. The volume presents African relationships with photography-and with visibility more generally-in ways that engage and disrupt the easy categories and genres that have characterized the field to date. Authors pose new questions concerning the instability of the identity photograph in South Africa; ethnographic photographs as potential history; humanitarian discourse from the perspective of photographic survivors of atrocity photojournalism; the nuanced passage from studio to screen in postcolonial digital portraiture; and the burgeoning visual activism in West Africa. As the contributors show, photography is itself a historical subject: it involves arrangement, financing, posture, positioning, and other kinds of work that are otherwise invisible. By moving us outside the frame of the photograph itself, by refusing to accept the photograph as the last word, this book makes photography into an engaging and important subject of historical investigation. Ambivalent's contributors bring photography into conversation with orality, travel writing, ritual, psychoanalysis, and politics, with new approaches to questions of race, time, and postcolonial and decolonial histories"--