Average, normal, and beautiful: representations of bodies in brazilian biotypology (1930-1940)
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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Th present article deals with the visual culture present in the books and textbooks on biotypology in Brazil, in the 1930s and 1940s. It analyses the representations of bodies in images, all of which were employed to guide people on the reasoning and practices of bodily measurement and classification according to the main biotypology approaches. Images herein discussed expressed the following scientific modus operandi of biotypology in Brazil: anthropometry, biometry and the construction of an average body; categorisation of biotypes, physical culture and classic aesthetic; and the link between normality, beauty and moral conceptions applied to women’s body features. This analysis also seeks to shed light on some of the ways in which biotypology strayed from and was consistent with eugenic discourse in Brazil. The representation of bodies in Brazilian biotypology showed the efforts to construct normal and deviant bodies defined according to ideals of national and racial identity, perfection, symmetry, harmony, goodness, fairness, femininity and beauty.
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Biotipologia, Eugenia, Representações sociais, Corpo humano - Aspectos sociais, Antropometria
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Biotypology, Eugenics, Normality, Visual culture of science
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14701847.2019.1579498?journalCode=cjil20