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Article: The birth of physical anthropology in late imperial Portugal
Title | The birth of physical anthropology in late imperial Portugal |
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Authors | |
Issue Date | 2012 |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA/ |
Citation | Current Anthropology, 2012, v. 53 SUPPL. 5, p. S33-S45 How to Cite? |
Abstract | In this article I analyze the emergence of the field of physical anthropology in the metropolitan academic sphere of the Portuguese Empire during the late nineteenth century. I suggest that Portugal's relatively peripheral position combined with a complex internal conjuncture of political instability and economic impotence gave early Portuguese physical anthropology a less explicitly "colonial" orientation than in other, more central Western European imperial powers. I describe the various national and international exchanges leading to the birth of this naturalist anthropological tradition at the University of Coimbra, drawing particular attention to the foundational role played by the technological assemblage of large osteological collections aimed at the study of the somatic characteristics of the metropolitan "white" population. I situate these technical developments in the context of wider sociocultural and politico-economic processes of both "nation building" and "empire building." These processes had a strong effect on the kinds of questions asked and the kinds of answers that seemed compelling and acceptable to early physical anthropologists. © 2011 by The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/185510 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.1 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.698 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Santos, GD | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-07-30T07:45:10Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2013-07-30T07:45:10Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Current Anthropology, 2012, v. 53 SUPPL. 5, p. S33-S45 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0011-3204 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/185510 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In this article I analyze the emergence of the field of physical anthropology in the metropolitan academic sphere of the Portuguese Empire during the late nineteenth century. I suggest that Portugal's relatively peripheral position combined with a complex internal conjuncture of political instability and economic impotence gave early Portuguese physical anthropology a less explicitly "colonial" orientation than in other, more central Western European imperial powers. I describe the various national and international exchanges leading to the birth of this naturalist anthropological tradition at the University of Coimbra, drawing particular attention to the foundational role played by the technological assemblage of large osteological collections aimed at the study of the somatic characteristics of the metropolitan "white" population. I situate these technical developments in the context of wider sociocultural and politico-economic processes of both "nation building" and "empire building." These processes had a strong effect on the kinds of questions asked and the kinds of answers that seemed compelling and acceptable to early physical anthropologists. © 2011 by The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of Chicago Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA/ | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Current Anthropology | en_US |
dc.title | The birth of physical anthropology in late imperial Portugal | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Santos, G: santos@eth.mpg.de | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Santos, G=rp01771 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1086/662329 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84859125167 | en_US |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-84859125167&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 53 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | SUPPL. 5 | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | S33 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | S45 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000302438900005 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Santos, G=24597835400 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0011-3204 | - |