Visual Arguments and Entangled Ethnographies in the Boxer Codex

Miguel Ibáñez Aristondo
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Abstract:This article examines the Boxer Codex (BC, ca. 1590), which is a manuscript that contains illustrations and narratives describing ethnic groups of the western Pacific islands and continental Southeast and East Asia. The article examines the codex in relation to early modern costume books by examining the role that images played in the creation of ethnographical knowledge. Divided into four parts, the first and second sections examine the opening foldout drawing and the first account of the codex, which both deal with the native people of the Ladrones Islands. The third part put the codex in dialogue with other Iberian manuscripts and it focuses on cases that incorporate images made by native artists. The last section analyses how the codex depicts costumes and body ornaments to fabricate ethnic and gender distinctions. After analyzing the relationship established between images and words, I argue that visual depictions in the Boxer codex played the role of visual arguments that enabled the author to fabricate and make visible ethnic differences.
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《拳击手手抄本》中的视觉争论和纠缠的民族志
摘要:本文考察了《拳击手手抄本》(公元前,约1590年),这是一份包含插图和叙述的手稿,描述了西太平洋岛屿和东南亚大陆和东亚的民族。本文通过考察图像在民族志知识创造中所起的作用,研究了与早期现代服装书籍有关的手抄本。分为四个部分,第一部分和第二部分检查打开折叠图纸和手抄本的第一个帐户,这两者都涉及到Ladrones群岛的土著居民。第三部分将手抄本与其他伊比利亚手稿进行对话,并重点介绍了由当地艺术家制作的图像。最后一节分析手抄本如何描绘服装和身体装饰来制造种族和性别差异。在分析了图像和文字之间的关系之后,我认为《义和团手抄本》中的视觉描述发挥了视觉论据的作用,使作者能够编造和制造明显的种族差异。
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