Headhunting and colonialism : anthropology and the circulation of human skulls in the Portuguese empire, 1870-1930 / Ricardo Roque

• 作者： Roque, Ricardo
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• 出版： Basingstoke [England] ;New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2010
• 叢書名： Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
• 主題： Craniology--Portugal--History , Headhunters--Timor-Leste--History , Rites and ceremonies--Timor-Leste , Skull--Social aspects--Timor-Leste , Skull--Social aspects--Collectors and collecting--Portugal , Ethnology--Timor-Leste , Museum exhibits--Portugal , Human remains (Archaeology)--Portugal , Craniology--history--East Timor , Craniology--history--Portugal , Colonialism--history--East Timor , Colonialism--history--Portugal , Exhibits as Topic--East Timor , Exhibits as Topic--Portugal , History, 19th Century--East Timor , History, 19th Century--Portugal , History, 20th Century--East Timor , History, 20th Century--Portugal , Skull--East Timor , Skull--Portugal , Timor-Leste--Colonization , Portugal--Colonies--Asia
• ISBN： 9780230251335 、 0230251331
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• 書目註：Headhunting and Colonialism is an account of colonial violence, indigenous headhunting and the circulation of human skulls to anthropological museums in the heyday of late European imperialism.Using the example of the Portuguese colony of East Timor, it embeds the history of a museum collection of human skulls within the larger context of the Portuguese imperial expansion, emergence of scientific anthropology in Europe, Christian beliefs about the dead body, and indigenous cultures. The book examines how human skulls were critical to imperial power and indigenous communities, and traceshow they could be collected, exchanged, circulated, studied, and interpreted in colonial, scientific, and metropolitan contexts. By combining imperial history with historical anthropology and the history of science, it brings out a fresh reappraisal of colonial interactions as mutually parasitic, and a novel framework for understanding the social life of collections as attachments between thingsand histories Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-322) and index "Explores headhunting in the colonial wars and the collection of heads for European museums, 1870s-1930s. By looking at Portuguese colonialism in East Timor, it shows how indigenous peoples andcolonial powers interacted in a mutually dependent way, and how collected remains became objects ofpolitical, symbolic, and scientific significance"--Provided by publisher
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