Des Miss à part. Les concours de beauté au prisme des différences en Amérique latine

This text presents the special issue Beauty contests in Latin America published in the Journal de la Société des Américanistes from a series of themes - ethnicity, gender, beauty, political representation, patrimonialization - that appear through all the articles of this issue. The diversity of the references discussed here is intended to suggest new reflections and to provoke resonance within this little-explored research object at the crossroads of performance, politics, aesthetics and gender. Indeed, the articles in this special issue show that, in beauty pageants, the celebration of beauty involves a mastery of the representations of a collective identity and the production of gendered identities, while articulating some paradigmatic oppositions of the social organizations involved, such as the "masculine" and "feminine" poles, "tradition" and "modernity", the "Indigenous" and the "White".Available at: https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/1491