The Two Lives of Sara Baartman: Gender, “Race,” Politics and the Historiography of Mis/Representation

Abstract

Anthropologica, the journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA), invites you to submit articles for peer review. We welcome articles in both French and English that engage with any field of sociocultural anthropology, covering a broad range of topics relevant to the dynamics of contemporary life. We welcome articles that are grounded in innovative methodologies, such as visual anthropology, community engaged research, and critical studies of materiality. Submissions should be based on original ethnographic fieldwork in any part of the world.

A postcolonial reading of the early life of Sara Baartman and the Samaritan Woman in John 4

“…The extent of the manner in which Pieter Cezar and Alexander Dunlop exploited the vulnerability of Sara Baartman and the way in which this was possible in the oppressive patriarchal colonial context is captured in the following section by Lyons (2018):…”

Encenando a diferença em palcos metropolitanos: as trajetórias de Sara Baartman e Franz Taibosh

“…Já a "Vênus Hotentote" tem inspirado vasta produção. Numa lista que não se pretende completa, mas bastante abrangente, podemos citar: Gilman (1985), Gordon (1992), Fausto-Sterling (1995), Sharpley-Whiting (1999), Strother (1999), Abrahams (2000), Magubane (2001), Samain (2001), Badou (2002), Guy-Sheftall (2002), Hobson (2005), Holmes (2007), Samuelson (2007), Crais e Scully (2009), Willis (2010), Gordon-Chipembere (2011), Kerseboom (2011), Qureshi (2011), Ritter (2011) e Lyons (2018). O caráter icônico da vida de Sara Baartman, tomada como símbolo da exploração do corpo e da sexualidade da mulher negra, faz dela objeto de variadas reflexões, com diversos objetivos e perspectivas teóricas.…”