Comunicação em evento científico
Gazing at Nudity in Colonial Photographs. Representation, Gender and Colonialism in the Guinea-Bissau's Ethnographic Archive
Clara Carvalho (Carvalho, C.);
Título Evento
Fotografia e Colonialismo
Ano (publicação definitiva)
2013
Língua
Inglês
País
Portugal
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Abstract/Resumo
Ordering human diversity for the purpose of rule was an integral part of the colonial project in Africa often resulting in artificial classifications based on arbitrary European conceptualizations of human difference. When compared to other European colonial powers, the Portuguese only belatedly implemented a systematic approach to ethnographic data collection that buttressed asserted hierarchies of difference. In Guinea-Bissau, a Portuguese colony until 1975, notions of science, colonialism, and masculinity fused in the production of one of the most detailed and comprehensive colonial archives of the Lusophone empire. The Research Center of Portuguese Guinea, created in 1946, was designed to order, produce and preserve research findings about Guinean peoples and their cultures and disseminate those findings across Portugal and her colonies. Most of this production took place as the rest of Europe had already begun the process of decolonization. Ironically enough, the ordered reality portrayed by the archive was created during the violent and turbulent period of anti-colonial resistance and decade-long warfare. Examination of this archive reveals the colonial logic that underpinned every act of selectively collecting, preserving, and categorizing images of the colonial other.
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Palavras-chave
Guiné Bissau Iconografia Colonial Género