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Since the introduction of photography by commercial studio photographers and the colonial state in Kenya, this global medium has been intensely debated and contested among Muslims on the cosmopolitan East African coast. This book does not only explore the making, circulation, and consumption of popular photographs, but also the other side, their rejection and obliteration, an essential aspect of a medium's history that should not be neglected. It deals with various »social spaces of refusal« in the local Muslim milieu and in that of »traditional« spirit mediums in which (gendered) visibility was (and is) contested in various and creative ways. It focuses on the »aesthetics of withdrawal«: the various ways and techniques that process the photographic act as well as the photographic image to theatricalize the surface of the image in new ways by veiling, masking, and concealing. In a fragmented historical perspective, Heike Behrend seeks to complement, decenter, and counter the history of photography as it has been told by the West and to narrate another history beginning with preceding local media such as textiles and spirit possession. Besprochen in: African Studies Review, 57/3 (2014), Drew Thompson

Anthropology of Africa; Photography; Media Anthropology; Media History; Islam; East African Coast; Postcolonialism; Ethnology; Africa; --- Africa. --- East African Coast. --- Ethnology. --- Islam. --- Media Anthropology. --- Media History. --- Photography. --- Postcolonialism.

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Ongoing debates about the “return of religion” have paid little attention to the orgiastic and enthusiastic qualities of religiosity, despite a significant increase in the use of techniques of trance and possession around the globe. Likewise, research on religion and media has neglected the fact that historically the rise of mediumship and spirit possession was closely linked to the development of new media of communication.This innovative volume brings together a wide range of ethnographic studies on local spiritual and media practices. Recognizing that processes of globalization are shaped by mass mediation, the volume raises questions such as: How are media like photography, cinema, video, the telephone, or television integrated in seances and healing rituals? How do spirit mediums connect with these media? Why are certain technical media shunned in these contexts?

Channeling (Spiritualism) --- Globalization --- Mass media and anthropology --- Technology --- cine-trance. --- ecstatic practices. --- media / new media. --- media anthropology. --- media. --- mediumship. --- religion studies. --- religion. --- spirit possession. --- spirituality. --- trance. --- cine-trance. --- ecstatic practices. --- media / new media. --- media anthropology. --- media. --- mediumship. --- religion studies. --- religion. --- spirit possession. --- spirituality. --- trance.

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Anthropologie appliquée --- Antropologie [Toegepaste ] --- Applied anthropology --- Cinéma dans l'ethnologie --- Communicatie in antropologie --- Communication dans l'anthropologie --- Communication in anthropology --- Development anthropology --- Film in etnologie --- Media anthropology --- Media--Anthropologie --- Media--Antropologie --- Motion pictures in ethnology --- Toegepaste antropologie --- 316.77 --- Anthropology --- -Applied anthropology --- Moving-pictures in ethnology --- Visual anthropology --- Human beings --- Communicatiesociologie --- Authorship --- Media anthropology. --- Applied anthropology. --- Communication in anthropology. --- Mass media and anthropology. --- Motion pictures in ethnology. --- Authorship. --- 316.77 Communicatiesociologie --- Mass media and anthropology --- Anthropology and mass media --- Anthropology - Authorship. --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences

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Digital technology permeates the physical world. Social media and virtual reality, accessed via internet capable devices - computers, smartphones, tablets and wearables - affect nearly all aspects of social life.The contributions to this volume apply innovative forms of ethnographic research to the digital realm. They examine the emergence of new forms of digital life, such as political participation through comments on East Greenlandic news blogs, the personal use of video broadcasting applications, the rise of transnational migrant networks facilitated by social media, or the effects of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram on global conflicts.

Digital media --- Internet --- Social media. --- Online social networks. --- Cyberspace --- Virtual reality --- Ethnology. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Communities, Online (Online social networks) --- Communities, Virtual (Online social networks) --- Electronic social networks --- Online communities (Online social networks) --- Social networking Web sites --- Virtual communities --- Social media --- Social networks --- Sociotechnical systems --- Web sites --- DARPA Internet --- Internet (Computer network) --- Wide area networks (Computer networks) --- World Wide Web --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Digital Culture. --- Digital Media. --- Internet. --- Media Anthropology. --- Media Studies. --- Media. --- Social Media. --- Sociology of Media. --- Virtual Worlds. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. --- User-generated media --- Communication --- User-generated content --- Media and Communications --- Digital Anthropology --- Virtual Worlds --- Social Media --- Media Anthropology --- Digital Culture --- Media --- Digital Media --- Sociology of Media --- Media Studies --- Facebook --- Instagram --- Red envelope --- Twitter