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. 2024 Dec;38(4):462-476.
doi: 10.1111/maq.12793. Epub 2023 Aug 9.

Anthropological knowledge under redaction: Meditations on race, health, and aesthetics

Ugo Felicia Edu  1
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Anthropological knowledge under redaction: Meditations on race, health, and aesthetics

Ugo Felicia Edu. Med Anthropol Q. 2024 Dec.

Abstract

Emerging from experimentations with form during our 2021 inaugural BFHSS Collaboratory, this article dabbles in redaction while examining logics of race and aesthetics embedded in how health is defined, measured, and depicted. I also examine logics structuring who is legible as a producer of knowledge, whose body is one from which knowledge is extracted, and who can be given access to population groups for study. Form in this article offers a reflection on the appropriateness of Blackness and pushes for a reconsideration of the relationship between form and function, appropriate claim-making, article writing, and engagement with scholarship.

Keywords: Brazil; aesthetics; health; race.

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