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Bridgework: Repatriating Mardi Gras Indian Photography With The House Of Dance And Feathers, Rachel Breunlin
Bridgework: Repatriating Mardi Gras Indian Photography With The House Of Dance And Feathers, Rachel Breunlin
Rachel Breunlin
This article from the summer of 2013 issue of African Arts discusses the politics of representation around photographing Mardi Gras Indians, and how the House of Dance and Feathers, a small, community-based museum in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, has served as a site of memory. Using in-depth interviews from Ronald W. Lewis, the director of the museum, photographers, and Mardi Gras Indians around the city, it discusses how photography is used in and outside the tradition, and how creating a catalogue with the House of Dance and Feathers became a collaborative ethnography in repatriation.
365 And A Wakey, Mark Jamieson
365 And A Wakey, Mark Jamieson
Mark Jamieson
Laurence Gilbert D’Arcy (Larry) served in the Citizen Military Forces (CMF) from 20 June 1962 to the 12 February 1964 and the Australian Army from the 18 February 1964 to the 17 February 1973. The Army took Larry on a journey that encompassed a two year tour in Malaya, two combat tours in Vietnam and to his final posting as a gunnery instructor with 123 Training Battery. This book is a personal account of a soldier, it is a collection of memories from an artillery gunner in the Royal Australian Artillery (RAA) and the events contained within this book are …