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discourse dependent images

these images, and I think "scientific" images more broadly, are much more dependent on discoure or narrative to draw out  ethnographic meanings.  what's most ethnographic about them is they way they condense a set of practices and relations: who makes them, how they are made, how they learn to make them, how people learn to read them, how they are used, etc.  The genealogies of these practices in particular places.

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