Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013
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Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013

An Anthropological Approach

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Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013

An Anthropological Approach

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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 Bedouin visual historicity, that is the diverse ways people produce their pasts in the present with images. This book charts these processes through the afterlives of six photographs (c. 1906–2013) as they circulate between the Naqab's entangled visual economies – a transregional landscape organised by cultural ideals of proximity and assemblages of Bedouin iconography. Le Febvre illustrates how representational contentions associated with tribal, civic, and Palestinian-Israeli politics influence how images do history work in this society. She concludes Bedouin visual historicity is defined by acts of persuasion during which photographs authenticate alternating history projects. Here, Bedouin value photographs not because they evidence singular narratives of the past. Rather, the knowledges inscribed by photography are multifarious as they support diverse constructions of history and society with which members mediate a wide range of relationships in southern Israel.

This book bridges studies of anthropology, photography, Palestinian-Israeli politics, and Bedouin Middle East history.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
ISBN
9781003817611
Edition
1
Topic
Art
Subtopic
History of Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsement Page
  3. Half Title
  4. Series Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Dedication
  8. Table of Contents
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Preface: Ethnonyms and Being Bedouin
  11. Introduction: Contours of Place, People, and Ethnography
  12. Part One Histories
  13. Part Two Photography
  14. Part Three Photographs
  15. Conclusion: Historical Persuasion and Photographs in the Desert
  16. Appendices
  17. References
  18. Index