Art, Observation, and an Anthropology of Illustration

This lively, diverse, and highly original volume explores from interdisciplinary, intercultural, and transhistorical perspectives, and with respect to both aesthetics and epistemology the role of graphic illustration in mediating colonial and postcolonial encounter and knowledge production for settlers and Indigenous peoples, anthropologists and artists alike. * Aaron Glass, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Bard Graduate Center, USA * This volume brilliantly brings into focus ways that artists and ethnographers produce and give meaning to visual representations of observed cultural and material practices. The compelling range of case studies provides useful methodological considerations to connect the interpretive vocabularies of anthropology and art history. The issues raised here are of significance to anyone who employs historical or documentary images as part of their analytical framework. * Adriana Greci Green, Curator of Indigenous Arts, The Fralin Museum of Art, USA *

Max Carocci is Adjunct Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the Richmond American University in London. Stephanie Pratt is formerly Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Plymouth, UK.

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction Part I: Drawing as Method 1: The question of expression when using art as a research method in anthropology: notes for the anthropologist-artist Paola Tin 2: Pictorial Ethnographies of the Solomon Islands Ben Burt 3: You have to be a draughtsman to be an ethnographer!. The Legacy of Giuseppe Bpo ebesta in Ethnographic Museography Giovanni Kezich and Antonella Mott Part II: The Production of Indigenous Visual Knowledge 4: Pictorialization as resource in the Cameroon Grassfield: Ibrahim Njoyas illustrations for the History and Customs of the Bamum (1927-1930) Simon Dell 5: Owning the Image: Indigenous children claim visual sovereignty far from home Jacqueline Fear-Segal 6: Graphically speaking: the stories told by Northwest Coast prints India Young Part III: Political Economies of Art 7: Ethnographic study of 19th century Kathmandu through artworks Sanyukta Shrestha 8: Like a porcupine: holy wounds in Spanish America Peter Mason 9: Art and the limits of representation: Portraits and portrayals of Mid-western Indigenous peoples in the early United States republic Stephanie Pratt 10: Interpreting art and ethnography in George Catlins Selection of Indian Pipes Annika Johnson Index