Abstract

CORREA, Sílvio Marcus de Souza. Photographs of an anomaly. Alterity and the limits of intercultural communication in a colonial situation. Vista [online]. 2021, n.7, e021006.  Epub May 01, 2023. ISSN 2184-1284.  https://doi.org/10.21814/vista.3404.

In early September 1948, the Mozambique Anthropological Mission (MAM) was a few days in António Enes (now Angoche). Joaquim Rodrigues dos Santos Júnior, head of MAM, was informed of the anomaly of a young man. Santos Júnior's interest in the case of the little Atomane was part of a colonial teratology that gave rise to a scientific spectacularization of the colonized bodies. Atomane´s anomaly is just one of several others recorded during the overseas anthropological missions to Guinea, Angola, São Tomé and Príncipe, Mozambique and Timor, between 1936 and 1959. The photographs of Atomane and the MAM’s collection form the documentary corpus for the analysis of the limits of intercultural communication in colonial context. Based on new contributions in visual culture, the study provides a critical reading of the photographs from MAM's colonial archive.

Keywords : photography; anthropology; colonialism; Mozambique.

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