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Reading National geographic / Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.Description: xvii, 309 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0226497232
  • 9780226497235
  • 0226497240 (pbk.)
  • 9780226497242 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 910/.5
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Contents:
Comfortable strangers:the making of national identity in popular photography -- Becoming America's lens on the world: National Geographic in the Twentieth Century -- Inside the great machinery of desire -- A world brightly different: photographic conventions, 1950-1986 -- Fashions in the ethnic other -- The color of sex: postwar photographic histories of race and gender -- The photograph as an intersection of gazes -- The readers' imagined Geographic: an evolutionary tale -- The pleasures and possibilities of reading.
Summary: Discusses the ways that the magazine and its authors and editors have both passively and actively shaped American opinions of other cultures and caused us to reflect on our own culture.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) G 1 L975r 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000077226

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-300) and index.

Comfortable strangers:the making of national identity in popular photography -- Becoming America's lens on the world: National Geographic in the Twentieth Century -- Inside the great machinery of desire -- A world brightly different: photographic conventions, 1950-1986 -- Fashions in the ethnic other -- The color of sex: postwar photographic histories of race and gender -- The photograph as an intersection of gazes -- The readers' imagined Geographic: an evolutionary tale -- The pleasures and possibilities of reading.

Discusses the ways that the magazine and its authors and editors have both passively and actively shaped American opinions of other cultures and caused us to reflect on our own culture.

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