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"Pictures Bring Us Messages" Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa: Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation. Alison K. Brown and Laura Peers, with members of the Kainai Nation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. 280 pp., 32 plates, and 13 figures.

"Alice C. Fletcher (1838-1923), one of the few women who became anthropologists in the United States during the nineteenth century, was a pioneer in the practice of participant-observation ethnography. She focused her studies over many years among the Native tribes in Nebraska and South Dakota. Life among the Indians, Fletcher's popularized autobiographical memoir written in 1886-87 about her first fieldwork among the Sioux and the Omahas during 1881-82, remained unpublished in Fletcher's archives at the Smithsonian Institution for more than one hundred years. In it Fletcher depicts the humor and hardships of her field experiences as a middle-aged woman undertaking anthropological fieldwork alone, while showing genuine respect and compassion for Native ways and beliefs that was far ahead of her time. What emerges is a complex and fascinating picture of a woman questioning the cultural and gender expectations of nineteenth-century America while insightfully portraying rapidly changing reservation life. Fletcher's account of her early fieldwork is available here for the first time, accompanied by an essay by the editors that sheds light on Fletcher's place in the development of anthropology and the role of women in the discipline. "--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Historical Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section I PHOTOGRAPHY NOW -- CHAPTER 1 Photographic Exploration of Social and Cultural Experience -- CHAPTER 2 Documentary Photography in the Field -- CHAPTER 3 Photography and Ethnography -- Section II IMAGES FROM THE PAST -- CHAPTER 4 Historical Photographs of North American Indians: Primary Documents, BUT View with Care -- CHAPTER 5 Blasting a Boulder and Building Memories -- Section III MOVING PICTURES: FILM, VIDEO, AND COMPUTERGENERATED MEDIA -- CHAPTER 6 Reading the Mind of the Ethnographic Filmmaker: Mining a Flawed Genre for Anthropological Content -- CHAPTER 7 Visual Anthropology in a Time of War: Intimacy and Interactivity in Ethnographic Media -- CHAPTER 8 Guestworkers: Farmworkers, Filmmakers, and Their Obligations in the Field -- Section IV ROADS LESS TRAVELED: UNUSUAL SUBFIELDS -- Part I UNCOMMON SUBJECT AREAS -- CHAPTER 9 Envisioning Primates -- CHAPTER 10 Steps to an Ethnography of Dance -- CHAPTER 11 Looking for the Past in the Present Ethnoarchaeology at al-Hiba -- Part II Media BEYOND CAMERA WORK -- CHAPTER 12 In Search of Live Relics in Cold Lake -- CHAPTER 13 Art and Mind Working on Murals -- CHAPTER 14 Art History and Anthropology: LOULY PEACOCK KONZ and JAMES PEACOCK -- SECTION V Epilogue -- CHAPTER 15 Elementary Forms of the Digital Media Tools for Applied Action Collaboration and Research in Visual Anthropology -- Glossary -- Author Biographies -- Index