Responses to images from the RAI archive in UK and Nigeria

该项目建立在PI和皇家人类学研究所之间的悠久历史的基础上。他一直是RAI理事会（其管理机构）的成员，为他们进行咨询审查，并就有关他们的档案和数字化可能性的问题定期与他们进行磋商。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项申请，因为它为他们提供了一个机会，可以从对他们的档案收藏的这一部分进行持续的学术研究中受益。通过扫描和全面编目，以及通过组织展览进行教育/推广，这与他们的内容策略非常吻合。他们特别热衷于参与这种合作的原因之一是，学生的项目将提供比通常由目录提供的详细收集文档更广泛、更一般的背景。因此，最终的结果将包括这个项目的研究和RAI的文件工作之间的丰富的补充。研究结果将有助于未来的研究人员更好地理解这些照片档案。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诺斯科特·惠特里奇·托马斯在20世纪初拍摄的图像展览。托马斯是一名政府人类学家，他对尼日利亚讲伊博语的人进行了研究。他的服役经历发生在20世纪的头十年。这些照片尚未编目，自托马斯本人以来就没有被用作研究的基础。它们代表了一份非凡的历史文件，记录了一个世纪前英国殖民历史和伊博文化的一部分。该项目被设计为人类学研究的一部分，可以加强和补充托马斯档案的文件，并提高我们对观众从参观展览中获得的理解（以及如何研究这个主题）。传播计划除了学术会议论文和同行评议学术期刊（包括国际期刊和非洲期刊）上的论文外，这项研究将在非政府论坛（例如电子邮件讨论组）、项目相关网页上以及在尼日利亚的报纸文章中（有待进一步讨论）进行报道。由于数据收集涉及到举办一个展览，在PhD项目的前期会有一些传播。希望在研究项目完成后，该展览能够巡展到其他场地。这将在展览筹备期间与RAI教育官员讨论。

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.