Paul D. Barclay, Associate Professor, Department of History, Lafayette College
（中研院台灣史研究所，外交部「臺灣獎助金」訪問學人）
This talk will take a visual-studies approach to Indigenous-outsider relations to investigate how the interdependent technologies of photography, postcard production, and ethnic classification contributed to "top-down" and "bottom-up" forms of ethnogenesis in Taiwan. I will argue that Mori Ushinosuke's森丑之助1902-1903 portraits of two married couples near "Kusshaku" 屈尺were the first successful photographic documents of "Atayalness" to be made under Japanese colonial rule. For the photographer, these anthropometric-photographs constituted an argument for Indigenous ethnic integrity, to counter the prevailing Qing-Japanese discourse on "savages" (fanren or shengfan). At the same time, postcard producers and newspaper editors recaptioned these photos to change their meanings to satisfy consumer appetites or to buttress other political positions. In both registers Mori's Kusshaku photographs proliferated across several media and even across continents. This talk re-opens the discussion on these contested artifacts because post-colonial "exposés" that assert the abject nature of the represented peoples have failed to mitigate the continued re-circulation of anthropometric photographs in Taiwan today. "Why," this presentation will ask, "does race refuse to die, despite over a century of concerted intellectual effort to debunk it as a form of pseudo-scientific false consciousness?"
黃小姐
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