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The essay by Claudia Castañeda examines the interplay between science and culture in the context of nineteenth-century developmentalism, focusing on how scientific knowledge constructed hierarchies of race, class, gender, and sexuality through the figure of the developing child. It highlights the role of the child in embodying these hierarchies and how scientific practices contributed to a global understanding of human difference. Castañeda argues that the child served as a material representation of histor
- Author
- Luciano Von Der Goltz Vianna
- Language
- EN