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How has the concept of race shaped anthropology across continents and centuries?
This book brings together marginalized voices to offer a decolonial perspective, revealing the entwined histories of race, power and knowledge from the late 19th century to the present. Covering South America, India, northern and southern Europe, East Africa and Asia, chapters examine race in museums, media, nationalist and imperialist ideologies and anthropological practices. The authors trace the legacies of coloniality and open pathways for contemporary research.
This is a thought-provoking guide for anyone seeking to rethink anthropology, race and global power structures.
Diego Ballestero is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology of the Americas at the University of Bonn and at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University.
Erik Petschelies is Postdoctoral Fellow in Social History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).
Introduction: Race, Anthropology and (De)Coloniality - Diego Ballestero and Erik Petschelies
Part I: Unravelling the Traces of Coloniality: The Epistemological Construction of “Race” in the Global South and North.
1. Race, Miscegenation, and Darwinism in 19th Century Brazil - Erik Petschelies
2. Seeing Colours: The “Brésil, Terre Rouge” of Dina Dreyfus Lévi-Strauss - Fernanda Azeredo de Moraes
3. Georg Forster on Race from Vilnius, 1785–1787: Transformations and (De)Coloniality - Vida Savoniakaitė
4. ‘Race’ as a Structural Element in the Portuguese Colonial Empire: The Involvement of the State and Science and Current Decolonial Challenges - Patrícia Ferraz de Matos
Part II: The Intertwined Threads of Coloniality: Studies About and Beyond Race
5. Spaces of Coloniality and Racialized Bodies: Anthropological Research on the Qom in Late 19th-Century Argentina - Diego Ballestero
6. Decolonizing the Safari in Eastern Africa - Oduor Obura
7. 100 Percent Japanese?: DNA Ancestry, Colonial Modernity and the Decolonial Negotiation of Identity - Shikoh Shiraiwa
8. Antiblack Pipe and the Problem of Alterity: Infrastructure, Race and Anthropology - Stella Z. Paterniani, Antonádia Borges and Gustavo Belisário
Epilogue: The Weight of Words: Race, Power, and the Colonial Academy - Mary Rambaran-Olm