ABSTRACT This article explores how photographs of Sámi peoples were used in the context of Norwegian physical anthropology in the interwar period, but also how they are re-appropriated in the Lule Sámi community in Tysfjord today. It also demonstrates how photography as used in in the Norwegian racial research publications, although designed to highlight physical characteristics, also include references to cultural characteristics and context. Such inclusion of cultural markers and contextual information may be understood as a strategy to overcome the failure of the scientific community to isolate race as a biological fact. The photographs worked to secure “evidence” where evidence could not be found. This strategy is based on the abundancy, or excess of meaning, of the photographic image as such. The article argues that it is precisely this photographic excess that is the key to understanding why and how photography contributed to establish credibility to a scientific discipline in continuous struggle and with frequent breakdowns. The abundancy, or photographic excess, is also a key to understand how photographs that once were used as instruments of racial research, over time have undergone a series of transmutations of functions and meanings. Thus, racial photographs may acquire new meanings when circulating in time and space.

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可视化隐身：挪威的摄影和自然人类学1

摘要本文探讨了两次世界大战期间在挪威自然人类学背景下如何使用萨米人的照片，以及今天在蒂斯峡湾的吕勒萨米人社区如何重新使用它们。它还展示了挪威种族研究出版物中使用的摄影技术，尽管旨在突出身体特征，但也包括对文化特征和背景的引用。可以将文化标记和上下文信息的这种包含理解为一种策略，以克服科学界未能将种族隔离为生物学事实的失败。这些照片用于确保找不到证据的“证据”。该策略基于照像图像本身的丰富度或意义的过度。文章认为，正是这种摄影上的多余才是理解摄影为何和如何在持续的斗争和频繁的崩溃中建立起科学学科信誉的关键。丰富性或摄影多余性也是了解过去曾经用作种族研究工具的照片如何经历一系列功能和意义转变的关键。因此，种族照片在时空循环中可能会获得新的含义。这也是了解曾经用作种族研究工具的照片如何随着时间经过一系列功能和意义转变的关键。因此，种族照片在时空循环中可能会获得新的含义。这也是了解曾经用作种族研究工具的照片如何随着时间经过一系列功能和意义转变的关键。因此，种族照片在时空循环中可能会获得新的含义。