Vision, Race, and Modernity

A Visual Economy of the Andean Image World

Deborah Poole (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

1997
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-00646-8 (ISBN)

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Through an intensive examination of photographs and engravings from European, Peruvian and US archives, this text explores the role visual images and technologies have played in shaping modern understandings of race. The book traces the subtle shifts that occurred in European and South American depictions of Andean Indians from the late-18th to the early-20th century and explains how these shifts led to the modern concept of "racial difference". Whilst Andean peoples were always thought of as different by their European describers, it was not until the early-19th century that European artists and scientists became interested in developing a unique visual and typological language for describing their physical features. The author suggests that this "scientific" or "biological" discourse of race cannot be understood outside a modern visual economy.

Deborah Poole is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York. Her previous publications include Unruly Order: Violence, Power, and Cultural Identity in the High Provinces of Southern Peru and Peru: Time of Fear.

Reihe/Serie	Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
Zusatzinfo	75 halftones
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	197 x 254 mm
Gewicht	595 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-691-00646-6 / 0691006466
ISBN-13	978-0-691-00646-8 / 9780691006468
Zustand	Neuware