Headhunting and Colonialism

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Anthropology and the Circulation of Human Skulls in the Portuguese Empire, 1870-1930, Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies

ISBN: 0230222056
ISBN 13: 9780230222052
Autor: Roque, R
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xiv, 342 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.01.2010
Auflage: 1/2010
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

An examination of the history of Portuguese colonialism and anthropology in East Timor between the 1870s and the 1930s Draws on a wide variety of documentation from Portuguese, British, Macanese, and Australian archives and museums Includes a significant set of unpublished photographs Develops a new theory of colonial interactions and intercultural exchanges Innovative approach to colonial and scientific collections

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Beschreibung

An exploration of headhunting and the collection of heads for European museums in the context of colonial wars, from the 1870s to the 1930s. The book offers a new understanding of the mutually dependent interaction between indigenous peoples and colonial powers, and how collected remains became regarded as objects of wider significance.

Autorenporträt

RICARDO ROQUE is Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia. He works on the history and anthropology of colonialism, human sciences, and cross-cultural contact in the Portuguese-speaking world. He has published extensively on crime and rebellion in British India, including Thuggee: Banditry and the British in Early Nineteenth-Century India (2007) and The Great Fear of 1857: Rumours, Conspiracies and the Making of the Indian Uprising (2010).

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