The Mobile Camera: Bodies, Anthropologists, and the Victorian Optic

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Notes

[1] Throughout this article, the author will be using her own titles for figure Captions. The full bibliographical information for the four figures can be found below. Figure 1: By kind permission of the Royal Anthropological Institute, London. RAI 35418. A posed picture of an old time cannibal feast. Photographed by Thomas Andrew, in the Walker Album, 1886-7 © RAI. Figure 2: By kind permission of the National Museum van Wereldculturen, Leiden. Untitled. Coll.no. RV-A26-3 /9. Figure 3: By kind permission of the National Museum van Wereldculturen, Leiden. Untitled. Coll.no. RV-A26-3 /9. Figure 4: By kind permission of the Royal Anthropological Institute, London. RAI 607. A half breed, Warrau and African; lying prone on palm leaf. Photographed by Sir Everard im Thurn, c. 1877-1910 © RAI.

[2] For a vigorous interpretation of this photograph, see Thomas, 33–35.

[3] See http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/CowYest-fig-CowYest_140a.html for this portrait.

[4] A copy can be viewed online at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oscar-gustave-rejlander_two_ways_of_life.jpg.

[5] The exception, of course, is images that depicted sexual activity. These were routinely and with little challenge dubbed pornographic rather than erotic.

[6] The portfolio can be viewed at http://www.roshinikempadoo.co.uk/photo_5545761.html.