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SUMMARY:(P07) Between Heritage and Colonial Representations: Early Photography in Borneo
LOCATION:K14 | 2.07
DESCRIPTION:The panel will showcase the salient aspects of early photograph
 y in Borneo, in the former British (Sarawak, Sabah), and Dutch colonial are
 as (Kalimantan), c. 1870s – 1920s. A first step will be identifying the ind
 ividuals active in the field and their practice of photography. Charles Hos
 e (1863-1929) as a cadet, then Resident, was the most notable administrativ
 e\nofficer in the Brooke Raj who was involved in pioneering ethnographic st
 udies and photography. Between 1884 and 1907, he was posted in out-stations
 , in the Baram and the Rejang. The panel will outline the different uses of
  photography and more generally, illustration, in Charles Hose’s main publi
 cations, including the style of the captions. The relation between photogra
 phy and ethnographic and natural history collecting, will be stressed. Besi
 des cultural heritage (tangible, i.e material culture, and its intangible d
 imensions), the exotic as expressed in landscapes, animal life and portrait
 s, features prominently in the images from this period. Dayak/Punan/Penan/M
 urut indigenous peoples and fauna and flora have been the most popular subj
 ects of photographers. A mapping of the categories of representations in or
 der to focus on the colonial gaze in Borneo will be provided. The panel wil
 l address as well the historical context at the time: the colonial presence
  and ‘ethnographic expeditions’ taking place in central Borneo, a region sp
 read between Sarawak and Kalimantan, Indonesia (known then as ‘Dutch Borneo
 ’). Another famous photographer, Jean Demmeni (1866-1939), participated in 
 A. W. Nieuwenhuis’ three expeditions taking place across West and East Born
 eo, between 1896 and 1900. Hose\nintensively practiced photography during h
 is postings in the Baram and the Rejang areas (circa 1895 – 1907,1920). Bes
 ides Charles Hose and Jean Demmeni, other photographers were active in Born
 eo during this period (inter alia Evans, Funk, Furness, Grubauer, Haddon, H
 arrisson-Smith, Martin and Osa Johnson, Mjöberg, Tillema, Woolley). Besides
  so-called\n‘scientific photography’, used to support academic texts and ex
 plorations, another photographic type which has been overlooked, i.e. postc
 ards with exotic and romantic connotations, will be considered. In short, e
 arly photography besides engravings or drawings – actually the former often
  made after photographs – had a significant role in the shaping of\nBorneo’
 s ‘culturescape’ during the 20th century.
URL:https://euroseas2021.org/panels/between-heritage-and-colonial-representations-early-photography-in-borneo
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