The «Negros Brujos» portrait. Visual Archives of Afro-Cuban Anthropology
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Through this article, I will illustrate the place occupied by the photographic image in the elaboration of the Africanist imaginaries by Cuban anthropologists between 1900 and 1920. Through the reading of some bibliographic works of Cuban anthropology, I will enhance the procedures, by which photographs were used and were valuated as illustrations of the Afro-Cuban «atavism» and «surviving» theories. This photographic corpus allows showing the attempts to control the affection of photography by means of textual devices. The deconstruction of these devices shows the irreducibility of the photography of alterity.
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