Visual Cultures of Japanese Imperialism (Special Issue of Positions)
Contributors: Gennifer Weisenfeld (Editor); Gennifer Weisenfeld (Editor)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: January 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780822364900
Subjects: Asian studies; Cultural studies; History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Sociology; Social Science; Japan; General; Anthropology/Ethnography; Ethnic Studies - General
First sentence: In the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century colonial world, where photography often functioned as a tool of visual surveillance and codification, body markings, physiognomy, and costume were key determinants in fixing identity and underscoring otherness.