Average, normal, and beautiful: representations of bodies in brazilian biotypology (1930-1940)

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dc.creatorAna Carolina Vimieiro Gomes
dc.creatorAndré Luiz do Santos Silva
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-06T18:04:19Z
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-09T00:02:48Z
dc.date.available2022-06-06T18:04:19Z
dc.date.issued2019-02
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/14701847.2019.1579498
dc.identifier.issn1469-9524
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1843/42284
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Iberian and Latin American Studies
dc.rightsAcesso Aberto
dc.subjectBiotipologia
dc.subjectEugenia
dc.subjectRepresentações sociais
dc.subjectCorpo humano - Aspectos sociais
dc.subjectAntropometria
dc.subject.otherBiotypology
dc.subject.otherEugenics
dc.subject.otherNormality
dc.subject.otherVisual culture of science
dc.titleAverage, normal, and beautiful: representations of bodies in brazilian biotypology (1930-1940)
dc.typeArtigo de periódico
local.citation.epage103
local.citation.issue1
local.citation.spage81
local.citation.volume25
local.description.resumoTh 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.
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2527-6970
local.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-9838-2558
local.publisher.countryBrasil
local.publisher.departmentEEF - DEPARTAMENTO DE EDUCAÇÃO FÍSICA
local.publisher.departmentFAF - DEPARTAMENTO DE HISTÓRIA
local.publisher.initialsUFMG
local.url.externahttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14701847.2019.1579498?journalCode=cjil20

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