An investigation of the historical practice of producing stereotyped and spectacularized representations of colonized peoples at the great exhibitions and in colonial photography, this text relates this to the shaping of European and settler identities. In doing so, it singles out homogenous aspects of colonialism's culture as well as distinguishing its discontinuities. It proposes that differences in representations of colonized peoples between the imperial centres and the colonies was a function of different social and political agendas. Sometimes photography served to criticize the precepts of colonialism and to empower indigenous subjects. The book argues that such processes are in keeping with theories of globalization.
- ISBN10 071850142X
- ISBN13 9780718501426
- Publish Date 30 September 1998
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 10 November 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Leicester University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English