https://doi.org/10.25058/issn.2011-2742

physiognomy

“Asi lo paresçe por su aspeto”: Physiognomy and the constrution of difference in colonial Bogotá

Joanne Rappaport rappapoj@georgetown.edu Georgetown University, USA Abstract: This article examines what early modern bureaucrats thought people of different calidades–indio, mestizo, negro, mulato, espanol–looked like, inquiring into narrative portraits drawn in a variety of legal circumstances. Colonial administrators were not so much concerned with the characteristics of broad social categories but with the appearance of individuals, […]

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