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Light on darkness? : missionary photography of Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / T. Jack Thompson.
Material type:
TextSeries: Studies in the history of Christian missionsPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2012.Description: xviii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780802865243 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0802865240 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Missions -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History -- 19th century
- Photography -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History -- 19th century
- Missions -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History -- 20th century
- Photography -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History -- 20th century
- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Church history -- 19th century
- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Church history -- 20th century
- 266.023 23
- BV3520 .T56 2012
Contents:
The beginnings of photography -- The photographer and the artist : visual representation on Livingstone's Zambezi expedition -- "Dr. Livingstone, I presume" : visual representations of Stanley's expedition to "find" Livingstone -- Creating an Africa for Africans? : Scottish missions in South Africa and Malawi -- The camera and the Congo : missionary photography and Leopold's atrocities -- Missionaries and the magic lantern -- New ways of seeing : radical missionaries and critical theories.
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SAIACS Archives Room | Frykenberg Collection | ARCH FRBC 266.023 T468L (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 066815 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The beginnings of photography -- The photographer and the artist : visual representation on Livingstone's Zambezi expedition -- "Dr. Livingstone, I presume" : visual representations of Stanley's expedition to "find" Livingstone -- Creating an Africa for Africans? : Scottish missions in South Africa and Malawi -- The camera and the Congo : missionary photography and Leopold's atrocities -- Missionaries and the magic lantern -- New ways of seeing : radical missionaries and critical theories.
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