In/Appropriate Bodies: carte-de-visite and the New Citizenships in Post-Independence Venezuelan Pardocracy
During the process of the construction of the Republic, in the 19th Century, non-white sectors of Venezuelan society attempted to legitimise themselves through photographs in their cart-de-visite, with the object of ratifying their position in this ‘coffee and milk’ society. The use of such tech...
| Autor Principal: | González-Stephan, Beatriz |
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| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Idioma: | eng spa |
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Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
2014
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http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/memoysociedad/article/view/8302 |
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During the process of the construction of the Republic, in the 19th Century, non-white sectors of Venezuelan society attempted to legitimise themselves through photographs in their cart-de-visite, with the object of ratifying their position in this ‘coffee and milk’ society. The use of such technology, as well as the introduction and acceptance of urbanity handbooks, were part of a process in which these sectors tried to ‘modernise’, reflecting related social tensions, for example, the urban-rural dichotomy or the need for ‘whitening’ themselves in the eyes of their fellow citizens. The purpose of this paper is to study the way in which photographic portraits and urbanity handbooks act in a society in which social and economic differences and distances have undergone a great upheaval since the independence process. |
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