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In addition to the number of pieces
(520), the broad period (about 138
years) covered by them, the variety of
the Argentinian and foreign locations
where they were taken, and their social
contexts, the collection is focused on
the Afro-Argentinian question, a field of
research where no many pictures are
available. This collection opens
suggestive research paths since, as an
anthropologist,
I
believe
that
photographs are pivots for generating
sui generis knowledge, not only for
playing decorative and complementary
roles in the writings, as they are
commonly used in the production of
scientific knowledge. The potential of
this collection lies also in its
questioning force to rectify certain
knowledge that so far has been taken for
certain, for example, that the AfroArgentinians have disappeared along
with their culture.
References:
BURKE, Peter, Visto y no visto: El uso
de la imagen como documento histórico
[Seen and not seen: The use of image as
historic document], Barcelona, Crítica,
2001.

CIRIO, Norberto Pablo, “Ausente con
aviso ¿Qué es la música afroargentina?”
[Absent with notice: ¿What’s the AfroArgentinian music?, en Federico
Sammartino y Héctor Rubio (Eds.),
Músicas populares. Aproximaciones
teóricas, metodológicas y analíticas en
la Musicología Argentina, [Popular
Music: Theoretical, Methodological,
and Analitical Approaches in the
Argentinian Musicology], Córdoba,
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba,
2008, pp. 81-134.
MONTERO, Rita Lucía y Norberto
Pablo CIRIO, Rita Montero. Memorias
de piel morena: Una afroargentina en el
espectáculo [Rita Montero. Memories
of the Dark Skinn: A Female AfroArgentinian in the Show Business],
Buenos Aires, Dunken, 2012.
STUBBS, Josefina y Hiska N. REYES
(Eds.), Más allá de los promedios:
Afrodescendientes en América Latina:
Resultados de la Prueba Piloto de
Captación en la Argentina [Beyond the
Averages: Afro-Descendants in Latin
America. Findings of the Pilot Test on
Data Acquisition in Argentina], Buenos
Aires, Universidad Nacional de Tres de
Febrero, 2006.

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