Indian, Nation And Body In The Porfirio Diaz Regime. The Photographical Representation Of The Segretion

Abstract

This work tries to reconstruct a process of great controversy
in the early of the twentieth century in Porfirian Mexico: a project
of a national construction under “modern” standards, in
which the incorporated of western values were a transcendental
basis. Nevertheless, the racial component of Mexico was
preponderantly indian and that was a challenge to achieve the
modern Mexico. That segregation is explored here through
the photographic image like as a vehicle of representation and
languages that while there were not verbal, but there were,
quite powerful.

Keywords: Indian, nation, Mexico, photography, 20th century.