ABSTRACTTh present article deals with the visual culture present in the books and textbooks on biotypology in Brazil, in the 1930s and 1940s. It analyses the representations of bodies in images, all of which were employed to guide people on the reasoning and practices of bodily measurement and classification according to the main biotypology approaches. Images herein discussed expressed the following scientific modus operandi of biotypology in Brazil: anthropometry, biometry and the construction of an average body; categorisation of biotypes, physical culture and classic aesthetic; and the link between normality, beauty and moral conceptions applied to women’s body features. This analysis also seeks to shed light on some of the ways in which biotypology strayed from and was consistent with eugenic discourse in Brazil. The representation of bodies in Brazilian biotypology showed the efforts to construct normal and deviant bodies defined according to ideals of national and racial identity, perfection, symme...

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平均、正常和美丽：巴西生物类型学中的身体表征（1930-1940）

摘要本文讨论了 1930 年代和 1940 年代巴西生物类型学书籍和教科书中的视觉文化。它分析图像中身体的表示，所有这些都被用来指导人们根据主要的生物类型学方法进行身体测量和分类的推理和实践。本文讨论的图像表达了巴西生物类型学的以下科学运作方式：人体测量学、生物测量学和普通身体的构建；生物型、体育文化和经典美学的分类；以及适用于女性身体特征的正常、美丽和道德观念之间的联系。该分析还试图阐明生物类型学在巴西偏离优生学话语并与优生学话语相一致的一些方式。