Picturing a Colonial Past: The African Photographs of Isaac Schapera

by Deborah James, John L. Comaroff, Deborah James, et al.

This volume presents for the first time the selected photographs of the renowned British anthropologist Isaac Schapera (1905-2003). Taken between 1929 and 1934, largely during his earliest work among the Kgatla peoples of Bechuanaland (now Botswana), the 136 images in this selection reveal an emotional engagement and aesthetic impulse that Schapera seldom expressed in his writings. Covering a broad spectrum of daily activities, they include depictions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226114112
• ISBN13: 9780226114118
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.7" x 9.5"