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Age of Enlightenment
American imperialism
Art for art's sake
Author_Deborah Poole
Biopower
Carte de visite
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Civilizing mission
Colonialism
Costumbrismo
Critical theory
Cultural evolution
Cultural hegemony
Cultural imperialism
Cultural nationalism
Engraving
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Ethnography
Exoticism
Fatherland
Foray
Governmentality
Henri Bergson
Henry David Thoreau
Heuristic argument
Ideology
Illustration
Imperialism
Indigenism
Indigenismo
Invention
Jonathan Crary
Lawrence Buell
Les Indes galantes
Manifest destiny
Marshall Plan
Mestizo
Modern Greek
Modernism
Modernity
Nation-building
National identity
Nationalism
Necromancy
New Course
Ollantay
Orientalism
Parody
Patria Nueva
Peon
Peruvians
Petrarch
Philosophy
Photography
Phrenology
Physiognomy
Picturesque
Popular sovereignty
Post-structuralism
Protectionism
Race (human categorization)
Racialism
Religion
Right-wing politics
Roland Barthes
Romanticism
Science
Technology
technology and society
The New Science
The Transcendentalist
Theory
Transcendentalism
Use value
Product details
- ISBN 9780691006451
- Weight: 422g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jun 1997
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Through an intensive examination of photographs and engravings from European, Peruvian, and U.S. archives, Deborah Poole explores the role visual images and technologies have played in shaping modern understandings of race. Vision, Race, and Modernity traces the subtle shifts that occurred in European and South American depictions of Andean Indians from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, and explains how these shifts led to the modern concept of "racial difference." While Andean peoples were always thought of as different by their European describers, it was not until the early nineteenth century that European artists and scientists became interested in developing a unique visual and typological language for describing their physical features. Poole suggests that this "scientific" or "biological" discourse of race cannot be understood outside a modern visual economy. Although the book specifically documents the depictions of Andean peoples, Poole's findings apply to the entire colonized world of the nineteenth century.
Poole presents a wide range of images from operas, scientific expeditions, nationalist projects, and picturesque artists that both effectively elucidate her argument and contribute to an impressive history of photography. Vision, Race, and Modernity is a fascinating attempt to study the changing terrain of racial theory as part of a broader reorganization of vision in European society and culture.
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.
