the ethnographic origins of modern media technology /
Brian Hochman
xxviii, 284 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ;
22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: the Passamaquoddy experiment -- Media evolution: Indians, alphabets, and the technological measures of man -- Representing Plains Indian sign language -- Originals and Aboriginals: race and writing in the age of the phonograph -- Race, empire, and the skin of the ethnographic image -- Local colors: the work of the autochrome -- Postscript: fictions of permanence