Through an intensive examination of photographs and engravings from European, Peruvian, and U.S. archives, Deborah Poole explores the role visual images and technologies have played in shaping modern understandings of race. Vision, Race, and Modernity traces the subtle shifts that occurred in European and South American depictions of Andean Indians from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, and explains how these shifts led to the modern concept of "racial difference" While Andean peoples were always thought of as different by their European describers, it was not until the early nineteenth century that European artists and scientists became interested in developing a unique visual and typological language for describing their physical features. Poole suggests that this "scientific" or "biological" discourse of race cannot be understood outside a modern visual economy. Although the book specifically documents the depictions of Andean peoples, Poole's findings apply to the entire colonized world of the nineteenth century. Poole presents a wide range of images from operas, scientific expeditions, nationalist projects, and picturesque artists that both effectively elucidate her argument and contribute to an impressive history of photography. Vision, Race, and Modernity is a fascinating attempt to study the changing terrain of racial theory as part of a broader reorganization of vision in European society and culture.

Vision, Race, and Modernity: A Visual Economy of the Andean World

Politics & Social Sciences

Poole, Deborah

Social Sciences

Princeton University Press

Through an intensive examination of photographs and engravings from European, Peruvian, and U.S. archives, Deborah Poole explores the role visual images and technologies have played in shaping modern understandings of race. Vision, Race, and Modernity traces the subtle shifts that occurred in European and South American depictions of Andean Indians from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, and explains how these shifts led to the modern concept of "racial difference." While Andean peoples were always thought of as different by their European describers, it was not until the early nineteenth century that European artists and scientists became interested in developing a unique visual and typological language for describing their physical features. Poole suggests that this "scientific" or "biological" discourse of race cannot be understood outside a modern visual economy. Although the book specifically documents the depictions of Andean peoples, Poole's findings apply to the entire colonized world of the nineteenth century. Poole presents a wide range of images from operas, scientific expeditions, nationalist projects, and picturesque artists that both effectively elucidate her argument and contribute to an impressive history of photography. Vision, Race, and Modernity is a fascinating attempt to study the changing terrain of racial theory as part of a broader reorganization of vision in European society and culture.

Vision, Race, and Modernity

Violence forms a part of the daily rhythms of life in the Peruvian Andes - from the "play" of everyday life to the political actions of the Shining Path. This volume explores how violence has affected the daily lives, cultural identities, and political futures of the inhabitants of Peru's southern high provinces. In their case studies, the contributors consider how violence has inflected the historical geography of the region; popular discourses of race, ethnicity, and gender; and the forms of local power that perpetuate landlord rule. Unruly Order makes a powerful argument for extending our understanding of this particular regional culture of violence to the social and cultural processes at work in many other parts of Latin America.

Unruly Order: Violence, Power, And Cultural Identity In The High Provinces Of Southern Peru

Westview Press

Peru: Time of Fear

Since 1980, Peru has been the scene of an escalating civil war. On one side are the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) Maoists determined to destroy existing society. On the other, the Peruvian military, acknowledged as South America's worst human rights violators. Caught in the middle, and dying in their thousands each year, are the poor peasants and slum-dwellers of Peru. Victims also of a collapsing economy and radical austerity program, the great majority of Peruvians are living a time of fear. This work looks at the astonishing success of Sendero Luminoso, examines the party's bizarre ideology and describes how its violence reaches every corner of Peruvian society. It also explains why "non-politician" President Fujimori has assumed dictatorial powers in a deal with the military

History

Rénique, Gerardo

Americas

Latin America Bureau (LAB)

Since 1980, Peru has been the scene of an escalating civil war. On one side are the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) Maoists determined to destroy existing society. On the other, the Peruvian military, acknowledged as South America's worst human rights violators. Caught in the middle, and dying in their thousands each year, are the poor peasants and slum-dwellers of Peru. Victims also of a collapsing economy and radical austerity program, the great majority of Peruvians are living a time of fear. This work looks at the astonishing success of Sendero Luminoso, examines the party's bizarre ideology and describes how its violence reaches every corner of Peruvian society. It also explains why "non-politician" President Fujimori has assumed dictatorial powers in a deal with the military

Latin America Bureau

A Market Town and its Surrounding Villages is the first proper treatment that has ever been given not only to a single community but to a group of communities focused on a market town. Although numerous studies of local communities have been made, never before has anything like this group study been achieved.  Cranbrook and its six contiguous parishes in the Weald of Kent - Benenden, Biddenden, Frittenden, Goudhurst, Hawkhurst and Staplehurst - are fortunate to have parish registers that are almost complete for the period in question. This has given Anthony Poole the opportunity to effect a fascinating reconstruction of the families living in the parishes in the late 1600s, and, consequently, the pages teem with local people and families. Dr Poole's groundbreaking survey concentrates on the 40 years between the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 and the close of the 17th century, which offers a wealth of resources including the Hearth Tax returns and the Compton Census; the study also benefits from remarkably full contemporary Accounts by Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor, and makes use of an abundance of wills, inventories and probate accounts.  Over ten chapters the author examines the sources themselves and the general background to the area and the period, analyses the development of families from courtship through marriage to death, discovers the role in society of the administrators, the poor and the very poor of the parish, and explores mutual support across societies, the borrowing and lending of money, and the influence of nonconformity. He provides fresh insight into family formation, preservation and limitation, the interrelationships between kin and neighbours, the function of parish welfare and credit systems, and the role of nonconformists in a time when religion shaped both community and country. At each stage Dr Poole places each of the Wealden parishes in context with other well-known studies.  This investigation is unique in being both essentially local in its focus, yet with an astonishing breadth that takes in national patterns of social and demographic history. This absorbing book will be of interest to the current inhabitants of the parishes, whose family histories may be entwined with the area's history, but also to local historians around the country, sparking academic debate and discussion about this fascinating subject.

A Market Town and its Surrounding Villages: Cranbrook, Kent in the Later Seventeenth Century

Europe

Phillimore Co Ltd

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Vision, Race, and Modernity: A Visual Economy of the Andean World

Vision, Race, and Modernity

Unruly Order: Violence, Power, And Cultural Identity In The High Provinces Of Southern Peru

Peru: Time of Fear

Peru: Time of Fear

A Market Town and its Surrounding Villages: Cranbrook, Kent in the Later Seventeenth Century