
It comes to the end today, in México City, the international IAMCR Conference where the research team of this blog project presented a paper on the role picture postcards would have played for the construction of an imaginary, that indirectly has raised the concept of Humanity and of Human Rights. The team analysed a collection of picture postcards edited in the occasion of the 1940 Portuguese World Exhibition, portraying diverse human types from the colonial Empire. Sign of the ethnographic use of image, these picture postcards would have contributed, in a moment in which Physical Anthropology began to be developed, to the recognition of Human Rights universality. This was the main thesis presented by the members of the team, within a reflection that took from Benjamin the idea of ‘seeing an image’ to ‘see the history’.
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