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..., stereopticon displays, pageants, and songs—established the Institutes’ multimedia rhetorical strategies that conveyed their political and social program, and are important precursors to uplift films. While these materials were primarily targeted toward white philanthropists in the North, they also circulated...

... the bureaucrats and spaces to be examined in chapter 1 by exploring precursors, in particular, the practices European art dealer Joseph Duveen and the land history of New York City. It also lays out how terms such as property, immaterialism , and materialism and frameworks such as conceptualism and scientific...

... This chapter directs attention to the site of a redefinition of technologies of mediation that can be located at the 1970s World Expo in Osaka: the field of architecture. It sheds light on the “cybernetic turn” of Japanese architectural theory as a historical precursor to contemporary attempts...

... methods that characterized the ethnography of sexuality within scientific precursors to queer anthropology. Turning from primitivist “ethnocartography” toward the first modernist ethnography of Western sexual minorities, the chapter illustrates how both projects normalize whiteness among their authors...

..., and in major cities across the world. Lastly, it traces the FBI’s uptake of Bertillon’s methods and episteme of scientific rationality for identification, leading to the creation of the identification order, a precursor to the FBI wanted poster, and ultimately an entire FBI program dedicated...

...-friendly equipment, both professionals and family members began to bring cameras to the bedsides of the dying, who collaborated in recording their own deaths. Their documentaries—including the filmic precursor Dying ; Silverlake Life: The View from Here ; and Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan...

... This chapter details the emergence of underground, the precursor to reggaetón, as a cultural practice of diaspora. It begins with a discussion of U.S. hip-hop, Jamaican dancehall, and Panamanian reggae en español that were key influences in underground’s sound and diasporic and racial politics...

... The first chapter establishes historical precursors to the Vatican Missionary Exposotopm by placing the sculptures and life experiences of Ferdinand Pettrich, a white German artist, into productive comparison with those of Edmonia Lewis, an Ojibwa and African American artist. By assessing...

... the ethnography of sexuality within scientific precursors to queer anthropology. Turning from primitivist “ethnocartography” toward the first modernist ethnography of Western sexual minorities, the chapter illustrates how both projects normalize whiteness among their authors and audiences by obscuring...

... as a historical precursor to contemporary attempts to rethink media’s relationship to the environment. Focusing on the formative role of Tange Lab and the work of associated architects Tange Kenzo and Isozaki Arata, the chapter explores how the postwar articulation of the cybernetic model of the information city...