{"product_id":"refracted-visions-9780822346111","title":"Refracted Visions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA generously illustrated ethnography arguing that popular photographic practices have played a crucial role in the making of modern national subjects in postcolonial Java.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a heavy book to hold in one’s hands, printed on glossy paper, with hundreds of photographs, for a really good price, an album of modern Indonesian history, from the 1900s to 2000s; and, as one turns the pages, first quickly and then increasingly slowly, the book is full of wonderful writing. . . . Strassler’s book is extraordinary.” - Rudolf Mrázek, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Asian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRefracted Visions\u003c\/i\u003e is an innovative and inspiring book because it demonstrates eloquently how people in urban Java started to participate\u003cbr\u003ein national modernity through photography. . . . [T]his highly original and well written book, with no fewer than 127 telling illustrations, is a landmark in the anthropology of visuality. . . . \u003ci\u003eRefracted Visions\u003c\/i\u003e is, in my view, a strong candidate to win prestigious academic prizes.” - Henk Schulte Nordholt, \u003ci\u003eAsian Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In conclusion, the main contribution of \u003ci\u003eRefracted Visions\u003c\/i\u003e lies in its conceptualization of popular photographs as exceeding the private domain and engaging with collective aspirations and affiliations in ways that both support and subvert them. This point should be taken as a caution against the common display of photographs of late colonial and early postcolonial Asia to evoke nostalgia for a depoliticized, aestheticized past that never was.”\u003cbr\u003e - Maurizio Peleggi,\u003ci\u003e Pacific Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“. . . [N]ot only an in-depth study of ethnic Chinese in Indonesian photographic history, but a beautifully written historical study of visuality, representation and the cultural significance of popular photography in the context of colonial and post-colonial Java.” - Charlotte Setijadi-Dunn, \u003ci\u003eInside Indonesia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRefracted Visions \u003c\/i\u003eis a tour de force. Karen Strassler has a sophisticated grasp of contemporary theories of representation in both anthropology and photography studies, a deep and carefully attentive ethnographic eye, and a refined aesthetic sensibility. She limns the boundary between new historicist cultural studies and old fashioned anthropology with uncommon grace.”—\u003cb\u003eRosalind C. Morris\u003c\/b\u003e, editor of \u003ci\u003ePhotographies East: The Camera and Its Histories in East and Southeast Asia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRefracted Visions\u003c\/i\u003e is a genuinely marvelous work which merits reading and rereading.”—\u003cb\u003eJohn Pemberton\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eOn the Subject of “Java”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Refracted Visions\u003c\/i\u003e is a truly brilliant piece of work, beautifully written and characterized by a profound learning and engagement with Indonesian ethnography and a range of debates around visuality and representation. It will be hailed as a classic.”—\u003cb\u003eChristopher Pinney\u003c\/b\u003e, author of\u003ci\u003e The Coming of Photography in India\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“. . . [N]ot only an in-depth study of ethnic Chinese in Indonesian photographic history, but a beautifully written historical study of visuality, representation and the cultural significance of popular photography in the context of colonial and post-colonial Java.” -- Charlotte Setijadi-Dunn * Inside Indonesia *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRefracted Visions\u003c\/i\u003e is an innovative and inspiring book because it demonstrates eloquently how people in urban Java started to participate\u003cbr\u003ein national modernity through photography. . . . [T]his highly original and well written book, with no fewer than 127 telling illustrations, is a landmark in the anthropology of visuality. . . . \u003ci\u003eRefracted Visions\u003c\/i\u003e is, in my view, a strong candidate to win prestigious academic prizes.” -- Henk Schulte Nordholt * Asian Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e“In conclusion, the main contribution of \u003ci\u003eRefracted Visions\u003c\/i\u003e lies in its conceptualization of popular photographs as exceeding the private domain and engaging with collective aspirations and affiliations in ways that both support and subvert them. This point should be taken as a caution against the common display of photographs of late colonial and early postcolonial Asia to evoke nostalgia for a depoliticized, aestheticized past that never was.”\u003cbr\u003e -- Maurizio Peleggi * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e“This is a heavy book to hold in one’s hands, printed on glossy paper, with hundreds of photographs, for a really good price, an album of modern Indonesian history, from the 1900s to 2000s; and, as one turns the pages, first quickly and then increasingly slowly, the book is full of wonderful writing. . . . Strassler’s book is extraordinary.” -- Rudolf Mrázek * Journal of Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations ix\u003cbr\u003e Preface xiii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xvii\u003cbr\u003e Note on Orthography and Psedudonyms xxi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Popular Photography and Indonesian National Modernity 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Amateur Visions 29\u003cbr\u003e 2. Landscapes of the Imagination 73\u003cbr\u003e 3. Identifying Citizens 123\u003cbr\u003e 4. Family Documentation 165\u003cbr\u003e 5. Witnessing History 207\u003cbr\u003e 6. Revelatory Signs 251\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Beyond the Paper Trace 295\u003cbr\u003e Notes 301\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 345\u003cbr\u003e Index 363","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406057644375,"sku":"9780822346111","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822346111.jpg?v=1730494386","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/refracted-visions-9780822346111","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}