Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013: An Anthropological Approach

by Emilie Le Febvre

Introducing a novel anthropological study of photography in the Middle East, Emilie Le Febvre takes us to the Naqab Desert where Bedouin use photographs to make, and respond to, their own histories.

She argues Bedouin presentations of the past are selective but increasingly reliant on archival documents such as photographs which spokespersons treat as evidence of their local histories amid escalating tensions in Israel. These practices shape...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032028998
• ISBN13: 9781032028996
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 274 Pages