The graphicalization of description: drawing and photography in the fieldwork journals and museum work of Henry Balfour

This article considers the fluid interchange between drawing and photography in the work of the first curator of the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, Henry Balfour (1863–1939). By examining in detail two 1920s fieldwork journals compiled by Balfour in Northeast India and East Africa, the a...

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Main Author: Morton, C
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Royal Anthropological Institute 2017