To follow up on my last:
A Theodore de Bry engraving of a Chief from Virginia, after a John White watercolor, as published in Thomas Hariot’s 1588 book A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia. John White was governor of the Roanoke colony, the first English settlement in the ‘New World’, and made some of the first images of the Aboriginal inhabitants from life. Note the formula for documentation: Classical body form, “scenes from life” in the background, and nakedness combined with tattoos and exotic accoutrements. Part of an imperial cataloguing of cultures.
The Pictish woman depicted (heh) below is another de Bry engraving from the same book (because Indians and Picts, why the hell not), and may be based on a work by le Moyne, or on a watercolour by White himself. Check out the publication at: http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/hariot/
Ethnology (n.)
A branch of anthropology that analyzes cultures, especially in regard to their historical development and the similarities and dissimilarities between them.
(formerly) A branch of anthropology dealing with the origin distribution, and distinguishing characteristics of the races of humankind.
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Update: Part Two here.
We’re still learning to read Audre Lorde, who should have been 79 today. We’re still learning to become the collectivity, the “we,” that would make reading…
A view of lower Manhattan from the Smith-9th Street FG stop #manhattan #brooklyn #sunset
May 15th marks the 65th anniversary of the Nakba - when 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from the territory that became Israel. In 1948, more than 50% of the entire Palestinian population was ethnically cleansed.
In commemoration of the Nakba, and the displacement that continues today, we are releasing ‘An Ongoing Displacement’. The new visual quantitatively catalogues the multiple dimensions of Palestinian displacement and loss of land.
Visualizing Palestine
