Alejandro and the other portraits from the Children’s Gallery of America of the Inter-American Children’s Institute: Images of “Latin American childhood” towards the end of the 70s
This article examines the category of “Latin American childhood” through the analysis of the Children of America Gallery created in the 1970s by the Inter-American Institute for Children and Adolescents (IIN). The pictures in this Gallery are a privileged perspective for the analysis of the produ...
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| Lenguaje: | Español |
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Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/CAS/article/view/8819 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=cantropo&d=8819_oai |
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| Sumario: | This article examines the category of “Latin American childhood” through
the analysis of the Children of America Gallery created in the 1970s by the
Inter-American Institute for Children and Adolescents (IIN). The pictures in
this Gallery are a privileged perspective for the analysis of the production
of images of childhood related to the ideals of modernity conveyed by the
Institute. The analysis shows the coexistence, within the framework of the
inter-American protection system, of the assertion of a “child of the world”,
above local belongings and symbolic investments that produce the region’s
specificity. It is argued that this set of pictures has the effect of representing a
helpless childhood and the child as bearer of the continent’s future, as opposed
to the image of an irregular childhood and dangerous child. Analysis of the
images in the Gallery show Latin American childhood associated to the image
of a child that is alone, a little helpless, but dignified and in need of support
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