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Catalogue of an exhibition of rare c19th photographs taken by anthropologists and missionaries documenting tribes and customs that no longer exist. The photographs were reprinted for the exhbition from early albumen prints, lantern slides and cellulose nitrate negatives that were chemically deteriorating. Biographies of photographers are given and each photograph described with several being reproduced here. Paperback. 24 pages. Good clean condition. Cat No 2599

£ 26.00

Roslyn Poignant

Royal Anthropological Institute

Very Good

Paperback

0900632194

1980

Theory & Practice: Ethnography

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