Photographies East: the camera and its histories in East and Southeast Asia

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Introduction: Photographies East: The Camera and Its Histories in East and Southeast Asia / Rosalind C. Morris -- The Ghost in the Machine / John Pemberton -- The Curse of the Photograph: Atjeh 1901 / James T. Siegel -- The Photography Complex: Exposing Boxer-Era China (I900-190I), Making Civilization / James L. Hevia -- Photography and the Power of Images in the History of Power: Notes from Thailand / Rosalind C. Morris -- In and Out of the Picture: Photography, Ritual, and Modernity in Aru, Indonesia / Patricia Spyer -- Mysterious Photographs / Nickola Pazderic -- Abandoned Cities Seen Anew: Reflections on Spatial Specificity and Temporal Transience / Carlos Rojas -- Dark Enlightenment: Naito Masatoshi's Flash / Marilyn Ivy -- Cine-Photography as Racial Technology: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's Close-up on the New/Oriental Woman's Face / Thomas LaMarre.