TY  - BOOK
AU  - Deseyn, Bart
AU  - Crawford, David
AU  - Bamouh, Abdelkrim
AB  - Anthropology and photography have been linked since the nineteenth century, but their relationship has never been entirely comfortable—and has grown less so in recent years. Nostalgia for the Present aims to repair that relationship by involving intentional participants in an inclusive conversation; it is the fruit of a collaboration among an ethnographer, a photographer, a group of Moroccan farmers, and Abdelkrim Bamouh—a native intellectual whose deep understanding of rural Morocco made him not merely a translator but a facilitator of the dialogue. The result is an arresting portrait of everyday life in Tagharghist, a contemporary High Atlas village. The pictures are central, and the text bilt around them creates a dialogical form of visual ethnography. Nostalgia for the Present is both a memorialization of a people and a way of life, and a rich foray into the potential of interdisciplinary collaboration.  The photos in this book evoke a sense of nostalgia, a longing, and the words explore the contexts and ambiguities that vitalize it. As the book concludes, nostalgia happens in our present, and is about our future. It is a call from our heart (or our liver, as villagers would say) to attend carefully to something we are leaving, something our gut tells us we ought to cherish and preserve, and bring with us on our inexorable march into the unknown.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_611490
ID  - OAPEN ID: 611490
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030822534
KW  - photography
KW  - morocco
KW  - ethnography
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Barley
KW  - Bart Simpson
KW  - Berbers
KW  - Mosque
KW  - Nostalgia
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/7e1036ac-c457-4f30-9808-63052ebdab78/611490.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32379
PB  - Leiden University Press
PY  - 2014
SN  - 9789087282110
TI  - Nostalgia for the Present : Ethnography and Photography in a Moroccan Berber Village
ER  - 
