The optic of the state : Visuality and power in Argentina and Brazil / Jens Andermann
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TextPublisher number: :Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. | :E/261, Shastri Nagar DelhiSeries: Illuminations., Cultural formations of the AmericasPublication details: Pittsburgh . : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007Description: xv, 256 p. :maps ; 25 cmISBN: - 9780822959724
- 306.209 AND
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Empires of nature : museums, science, and the politics of being --
Spectacles of sacrifice : inside the Brazilian anthropological exhibition --
Antiques and archives : finding a home for history --
Into the heart of the state : the Planalto Expedition --
An essay in segmentarity : the Desert Campaign --
Disappearing acts : photography and primitive accumulation.
Traces the production of nationalist imaginaries through the public visual representation of modern state formation in Brazil and Argentina. This work offers a critique of the visual aspects of national mythology. It also exposes how scientific and cultural institutions inscribed the state-form in time and space.
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