Responses to images from the RAI archive in UK and Nigeria

对来自英国和哥伦比亚RAI档案馆的图像的回应这个项目建立在PI和皇家人类学研究所之间长期联系的基础上。他是RAI理事会（其理事机构）的成员，为他们进行了咨询审查，并定期就有关其档案和数字化的可能性的问题与他们进行磋商。目前的建议是从这些正在进行的讨论中产生的。皇家人类学研究所很高兴支持这一申请，因为它为他们提供了从他们档案收藏的这一部分的持续学术研究中受益的机会。通过扫描和全面编目，它非常符合他们的内容战略，并通过组织一次研讨会，实现了他们的教育/推广职责。他们特别热衷于参与这项合作的原因之一是，学生的项目将提供比目录通常提供的详细收藏文件更广泛，更一般的背景。因此，最终结果将包括该项目的研究与RAI的文件工作之间的丰富互补性。研究结果将有助于未来的研究人员更好地了解摄影档案。这个博士研究项目将集中在英国和尼日利亚的观众如何理解Northcote Whitridge托马斯在C20年代早期拍摄的照片。托马斯是一名政府人类学家，他在尼日利亚讲伊博语的人中进行了研究。他的图尔斯任期是在世纪的头十年。这些照片尚未编入目录，自托马斯本人以来，也没有被用作研究的基础。它们代表了世纪前英国殖民历史和伊博文化的一部分的非凡历史文献。该项目被设计为一项人类学研究，可以增强和补充托马斯档案的文献，并提高我们对观众从参观展览中获得的东西（以及如何研究该主题）的理解。除了学术会议论文和同行评审的学术期刊（国际和Africanist）上的论文外，研究报告将在非政府论坛上报告，如电子邮件讨论组、项目相关网页，并在尼日利亚的报纸文章中进一步讨论。由于数据收集涉及举办展览，一些传播将发生在博士项目的早期部分。希望在研究项目完成后，展览能够在其他场地巡回展出。在筹备展览期间，将与RAI教育官员讨论这一问题。

Responses to images from the RAI archive in UK and NigeriaThis project builds on a long history of association between the PI and the Royal Anthropological Institute. He has been a member of RAI council (its governing body), has undertaken consultancy reviews for them and has consulted regularly with them on matters concerning their archives and the possibility of digitisation. The current proposal has emerged from these ongoing discussions.The Royal Anthropological Institute are happy to support the application because it provides them with the opportunity to benefit from sustained academic research on this part of their Archive collection. It fits well with their content strategy by scanning and fully cataloguing and their educational/ outreach remit through the organisation of an exhibtion. One of the reasons they are particularly keen to participate in this collaboration is that the students' project will provide a wider, more general context than the detailed collection documentation usually provided by the catalogue. The final result will thus include a rich complementarity between the research of this project and the RAI's documentation work. The results will help future researchers to better understand the photographic archive.This PhD research project will concentrate on how audiences in UK and Nigeria understand an exhibtion of images taken by Northcote Whitridge Thomas early in the C20th. Thomas was a government anthropologist, who undertook research amongst Igbo speaking people of Nigeria. His tours of duty took place during the first decade of the 20th century. The photographs are as yet uncatalogued and have not been used as the basis for research since Thomas himself. They represent an extraordinary historical document of a part of British colonial history and of Igbo culture a century ago.The project has been designed as a piece of anthropological research which can enhance and complement the documentation of the Thomas archive and improve our understanding of what audiences gain from visiting exhibitions (and of how the topic can be studied). Dissemination plansOther than academic conference papers and papers in peer-reviewed academic journals (both international and Africanist), the study will be reported in non-governmental fora, such as email discussion groups, on project related web pages and, subject to further discussion, in newspaper articles in Nigeria. Since the data collection involves holding an exhibition some dissemination will occur during the early part of the PhD project. It is hoped that the exhibition will be able to tour to other venues after the completion of the research project. This will be discussed with the RAI education officer during the preparation of the exhibition.