Publisher's Synopsis
- This is a longitudinal study that treats the trajectory of ethical discoveries about the European representation of world peoples across more than one hundred and fifty years (1860-2010).
- This study integrates literary representation and visual representations of world peoples-images-to show in greater detail how trends of the portrayal of race and culture are manifest across artistic and scientific genres.
- This study integrates the history of anthropology, trends in current anthropological research, and literary representation to argue for a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to understanding the French history of the representation of world peoples.
- This study argues that subjectivity and objectivity are interdependent terms, and that out of this interdependence, a phenomenon called ethnographic aesthetics.
- This study argues that the anthropological dispositif emerged in the colonial-modern era and has shaped the French representation of world peoples through tropes, ideology, observational practice, and discursive clichés inherent in proto-anthropological and modern anthropological thinking from the nineteenth century to today.
