Constructing race on the borders of Europe : ethnography, anthropology, and visual culture, 1850-1930 / edited by Marsha Morton and Barbara Larson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Larson, Barbara (Barbara Jean), editor.

Morton, Marsha, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and anthropology--Europe, Eastern.

Art and anthropology.

Art and anthropology--Scandinavia.

Art and anthropology--Soviet Union.

Ethnic groups in art.

Other (Philosophy) in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London ; Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.

Summary:

"Constructing Race on the Borders of Europe investigates the visual imagery (in painting, photography, prints, film, and design) of race construction primarily in Scandinavia and the empires of Austro-Hungary, Germany, and Russia at a time when the disciplines of ethnography and anthropology were expanding and publications on race were debating competing theories of biological, geographic, linguistic, and cultural determinants. These regions, while on the periphery of continental Europe, largely marginalized in the scholarship of nineteenth-century art history, and ignored by Edward Said (Orientalism 1978), have been central locations for theorizing white identity and for containing diverse ethnic populations that have generated substantive ethnographic study and regional conflicts since the eighteenth century. This anthology explores art that engaged with ethnography and anthropology to shape visual representations of subordinate ethnic populations and material cultures, both indigenous (Roma, Sámi, Inuit, and Celts) and migrant or colonial (Muslims and Blacks), chiefly between 1850 and 1930, but extending into the early twenty-first century. The essays in this book contribute to postcolonial research by documenting colonial-style treatment of minority groups and by seeking to qualify binary systems through explorations of anomalies, complexities, and contradictions that emerge when seen from the perspective of the fine and applied arts. This book presents a range of different artistic voices that responded to ethnographic and anthropological information by producing images or objects that adopted, altered, or critiqued that information. The authors seek to uncover instances of connections and variability, to establish the fabricated nature of ethnic identity, and to challenge the certainties of racial categorization"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

From folk to a folk race : Carl Arbo and national romantic anthropology in Norway / Patricia G. Berman

Brigands and virtuous musicians : representations of Roma ("Gypsies") as oriental other in the eastern part of the Habsburg Monarchy during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Robert Born and Dirk Suckow

Children of the narod : early Soviet children's books' racialization of childhood / Marie Gasper-Hulvat.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350182349

1350182346

9781350182356

1350182354

9781350182332

1350182338

OCLC:

1238133762