Image Reception. An Anthropological Refl ection on the Native Representations in Mexico

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Mariana Petroni

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The following paper presents a refl ection on the use of photography in Anthropology, so as to consider the image as an instrument of ethnographic work as well as to comprehend the role of photography in the formation process of social representations and their repercussions among those who receive it. For this, the paper will analyze the reception of the photographs by Mexican Anthropologist and Indigenist Julio de la Fuente among the Zapoteco natives in the Oaxaca state at the South of Mexico.

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Mariana Petroni

Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social. DF. México. marianapetroni@hotmail.com