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- Title
ENTRE O VISÍVEL E O NÃO VISÍVEL: OS POTENCIAIS ETNOGRÁFICOS DOS RETRATOS DE FAMÍLIA NUMA COMUNIDADE RURAL DE MINAS GERAIS.
- Authors
Franco de Alcântara, Paulo Augusto
- Abstract
Based on images collected during two years of ethnographic research in Santo António do Rio das Mortes Pequeno in the rural district of São João del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil, this paper explores the anthropological potential of family portraits. It is suggested that the photographs - hovering between the visible and the invisible and generating indices of cultural signification from a certain époque -- represent, at the same time, visions and an interpretations of social realities. If visions are choices and therefore the results of social processes, then photographs belong to social places of production, subject to a number of formal, aesthetical and moral patterns dominant during a certain period in history. Taking into account the many aspects of and the numerous roles played by photographs and photographers in Minas Gerais' rural area, the author suggests the use of portraits in ethnographic practice, highlighting its potentials for suggesting/revealing the gaze which had produced it. A collection of family images is presented, pointing to notions of performativity and representation of memories.
- Publication
Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia, 2015, Vol 4, Issue 1, p111
- ISSN
2238-0361
- Publication type
Article