{"product_id":"9781477334829","title":"The Visual in Latin American History","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of essays examining the role of visual materials in shaping Latin American lives, historical thought, and worldmaking.  Historians have long valued visual media as a source of documentation and illustration. More recently, scholars have also been turning to visual media for another purpose: to directly observe historical processes. Paintings, maps, visual narratives, graffiti, photography-these objects do not simply transmit information about events; they are events. They imbue the historical change we seek to understand.  The Visual in Latin American History is a collection of essays that applies cutting-edge visual-studies methodology to the history of Central and South America and the Caribbean. Contributors focus on the visual production of postcolonial national imaginaries across Latin America-mythologies that purposely omitted Indigenous groups, African diasporic communities, and new migrants from Europe and Asia. The essays range across a vast territory, including erasure in archeology and Afro-Colombian portraiture; image making in domestic spaces and social movements; the visual vocabularies of urban planning and agrarian reform; military \"performance\" and anti-imperial Cold War exchanges; and humanitarian documentary along the US border.Collectively, the authors show how visual methods can radically transform our understanding of power and culture in Latin America and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48208065429556,"sku":"9781477334829","price":107.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781477334829.jpg?v=1787093090","url":"https:\/\/woodslane.com.au\/products\/9781477334829","provider":"Woodslane","version":"1.0","type":"link"}