Article ID: CBB008241777

Transnational Isolates: Portuguese Colonial Race Science and the Foreign World (2022)

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This article examines scientific transnationalism as an art of engagement with, and avoidance of, the threats and promises of what was foreign to the nation. Portuguese racial anthropologists experienced a tension between remaining imperial-nationalistic in character, and internationalist in their activities simultaneously. They struggled to exclude foreigners from colonial field sites; they aimed at nativist authority based on total control of colonial data. Yet, they eagerly sought connections with foreign experts to capitalize provincial scientific authority within Portugal's colonies. The essay conceptualizes this mode of transnationalism as also a kind of isolationism, an inward oriented form of engaging with foreign sciences and scientists as ambivalently powerful and threatening strangers.

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Authors & Contributors
Anderson, Warwick H.
Bonmassar, Michele
Henniges, Norman
Pereira, Hugo Silveira
Barbosa, Thiago P.
Herza, Filip
Concepts
Science and race
Physical anthropology
Colonialism
Imperialism
Nationalism
Blood
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Portugal
India
Puerto Rico
Indonesia
Institutions
Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946)
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