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Postcards are treated as key visual technologies that helped shape contemporary understandings of Indigenous peoples, while also connecting to the making of anthropological knowledge in a commercial format. The study is structured in three parts, moving from socio-cultural contexts to microhistorical contact zones on Wailwan land, and finally to the Samoan series’ “recycled” motifs and stereotyping logics.","TRAVELLING MINIATURES  \nKerry & Co.‟s Postcards ofthe Pacific  \n(1893–1917)  \nNicole Peduzzi  \nPhD Thesis  \nSeptember 2011  \nUniversity of East Anglia  \nSchool of World Art Studies and Museology Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania & the Americas  \n© This copy of the thesis has been supplied on condition that anyone who consults it is understood to recognise that its copyright rests with the author and that no quotation from the thesis, nor any information derived therefrom, may be published without the author‟s prior, written consent.  \nA Marco  \nABSTRACT  \nThis thesis examines postcards of Pacific peoples that were produced in Sydney by the photographic firm Kerry & Co. during the first decade of the twentieth century. Like other visual images and technologies of that period, postcards have played an important role in shaping contemporary understandings of indigenous peoples, and, despite created for commercial purposes, they also relate to the production of anthropological knowledge at the turn of the century. This study is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to the socio-cultural and historical contexts in which the Kerry & Co. postcards are embedded. Particular attention will be given to the company‟s postcard sample book around which the discussion of the Kerry postcards body will revolve. The second part, focusing on the three Aboriginal series, is characterised by a microhistorical approach to a photographic encounter on Wailwan land, and by the consideration of „contact zones‟ for the understanding of the social dynamics in front of Kerry‟s camera. The focus of both chapters is on the excavation of the origins and identities of the nameless Aboriginal „postcard people‟, and on the identification of their agency during the shared moment of the postcard imagery‟s production. The third part of the thesis focuses on the Samoan series which, for the „recycled‟ nature of its twelve motifs, assumes an even more „exotic‟ role within Kerry‟s body of indigenous people. The headdress tuiga becomes a cultural marker for Samoa in Kerry‟s stereotyping apparatus, and the whole series can be considered as born as a metaphor – their motifs being stripped of personal meanings already before entering Kerry‟s factory. I argue that, focusing on postcards as material objects in their own right, discloses many aspects of the dynamic relationships between societies, and reveals how active they are in creating meanings about cultures.  \nTABLE OF CONTENT  \nWarning for Aboriginal readers........................................................................................... ix  \nList of illustrations ............................................................................................................. xi  \nPreface and acknowledgements ....................................................................................... xxiii  \n1 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 1  \nTopic and research questions ............................................................................ 1  \nResearch context, sources and methodology ..................................................... 6  \nTheoretical orientation ..................................................................................... 8  \nParallel histories: photographs and postcards ............................................. 10  \nVisual economy and agency ...................................................................... 14  \nThe materiality of images .......................................................................... 16  \nSocial biography: trajectories and world lines ............................................ 18  \nOutline of the dissertation............................................................................... 19  \nI-A FACTORY OF CURIOSITIES 23  \n2 Charles Henry Kerry (1857–1928) and his time ................................................","cbCail8zMBgBsMF6","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCail8zMBgBsMF6","pdf",23738156,2,1,331,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Topic and research questions\n## Research context, sources and methodology\n## Theoretical orientation\n## Parallel histories: photographs and postcards\n## Visual economy and agency\n## The materiality of images\n## Social biography: trajectories and world lines\n## Outline of the dissertation\n# Factory of curiosities\n## Charles Henry Kerry (1857–1928) and his time\n## Kerry & Company (1893–1917)\n## Kerry & Company (1893–1917) - 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