Article ID: CBB649474947

The Latin stranger-science, or l’anthropologie among the Lusitanians (2022)

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This essay traces the connected histories of Portuguese and French anthropology in the late nineteenth century. By looking at a Portuguese scientific institution, the Carlos Ribeiro Society, it considers how French race science, known as anthropologie, was adopted and adapted across the European Latin world as a type of “stranger-science.” That is: as an authoritative outsider scientific formation, installed into national terrain in accordance with insider strategies for turning foreign elements into native forms of scientific sovereignty and modernity. French anthropology’s international diffusion becomes meaningful in the light of the Portuguese incorporating what was foreign and modern as a means to generate vitality, and authority endogenously in their own national context. Hence, addressing the circulation of stranger-sciences can pave the way for an original conceptualizing of the transnational life of race science across and even beyond the Latin world.

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Authors & Contributors
McMahon, Richard
Ioana Popa
Zumwalt, Rosemary Lévy
Hochstadt, Steve
Kerr, Ashley Elizabeth
Walker, Mark
Concepts
Science and politics
Anthropology
Science and race
Social sciences
Cross-national interaction
Science and ideology
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
21st century
Places
France
United States
Portugal
Spain
Germany
Timor Island
Institutions
École Pratique des Hautes Études
Columbia University
X-Club
American Museum of Natural History, New York
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