%0 Journal Article
%T Anthropometric specimens and picturesque curiosities: the photographic orchestration of the ¡°black¡± body (Brazil, circa 1865)
%A Rodr¨ªguez BE
%J Revista Ciencias de la Salud
%D 2012
%I Universidad del Rosario, Bogota
%X 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 that elaborate the concept of race adopt new technologies, especially photography. In this article, I am particularly interested in analyzing how the ¡°black¡± body is arranged photographically. I probe some examples taken from the archives collected by the Swiss scientist Louis Agassiz and the photographer Christiano J¨²nior in mid-19th century Rio de Janeiro. Objective: to question how these visual artifacts contributed to the re-assemblage of racial discourses precisely at the moment when the black body was invested with legal subjectivity
%K racial discourse
%K photography
%K Louis Agassiz
%K Christiano J¨²nior
%K Brazil
%U http://revistas.urosario.edu.co/index.php/revsalud/article/view/2182/1914