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Picturing Pity

Pitfalls and Pleasures in Cross-cultural Communication - Image and Word in a North Cameroon Mission

  • Hardback
  • 368 pages
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • 18.1 x 25.4 x 2.8 cm

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Empirically, this book is based on an in-depth analysis of the published photographs taken by Norwegian evangelical missionaries in Northern Cameroon between 1925, the start of their activities, and 2005. Norway sent out more missionaries per capita than any other country in Europe. Marianne Gullestad's main contention is that the need to continuously justify their activities to donors in Europe has led to the creation and maintenance of specific ways of portraying Africans. The missionary visual rhetoric is both based on earlier visualizations and has over time established its own conventions which can now also be traced within secular fields of activity such as international development agencies, foreign policy, human relief organizations and the media. "Picturing Pity" takes part in the present "pictorial turn" in academic teaching and research, constituting visual images as an exciting site of conversation across disciplinary lines.
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  • Title

    Picturing Pity

  • Author

    Marianne Gullestad

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Berghahn Books

  • Published

    November 2007

  • Edition

    illustrated edition

  • Weight

    784g

  • Page Count

    368

  • Dimensions

    18.1 x 25.4 x 2.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781845453435

  • ISBN-10

    1845453433

  • Eden Code

    1181349

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