Anthropometric specimens and picturesque curiosities: the photographic orchestration of the “black” body (Brazil, circa 1865)
In Against Race Paul Gilroy writes that the “race producing” activity unleashed in the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries “required a synthesis of logos with icon, of formal scientific rationality with something else, something visual and aesthetic” (1). During this period, scientific discourses th...
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Universidad Colegio Mayor Nuestra Señora del Rosario
2012-05-01
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| Series: | Revista Ciencias de la Salud |
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| Online Access: | http://revistas.urosario.edu.co/index.php/revsalud/article/view/2182/1914 |