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Constructing race on the borders of Europe: Ethnography, anthropology, and visual culture, 1850-1930
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
2021
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Abstract
Constructing Race on the Borders of Europe investigates the visual imagery of race construction in Scandinavia, Austro Hungary, Germany, and Russia. It covers a period when historic disciplines of ethnography and anthropology were expanding and theorists of race were debating competing conceptions of biological, geographic, linguistic, and cultural determinants. Beginning in 1850 and extending into the early 21st century, this book explores how paintings, photographs, prints, and other artistic media engaged with these discourses and shaped visual representations of subordinate ethnic populations and material cultures in countries associated with theorizations of white identity.
The chapters contribute to postcolonial research by documenting the colonial-style treatment of minority groups, by exploring the anomalies and complexities that emerge when binary systems are seen from the perspective of the fine and applied arts, and by representing the voices of those who produced images or objects that adopted, altered, or critiqued ethnographic and anthropological information. In doing so, Constructing Race on the Borders of Europe uncovers instances of unexpected connections, establishes the fabricated nature of ethnic identity, and challenges the certainties of racial categorization.
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- Title
- Constructing race on the borders of Europe
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Visual Arts; London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney
- Number of pages
- ix, 277
- Copyright
- © Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
- Identifiers
- 9781350182325; 135018232X; 99380171990506600
- Academic Unit
- Art and Design; College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities
- Language
- English