Empire, Colonialism, and the Human Sciences

Empire, Colonialism, and the Human Sciences

Troubling Encounters in the Americas and Pacific

Rodriguez, Julia E.; Casper, Stephen T.; Warren, Adam

Cambridge University Press

11/2024

388

Dura

9781009398138

15 a 20 dias

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Preface; 1. An introduction to troubling encounters Adam Warren, Julia E. Rodriguez and Stephen T. Casper; Part I. Relationality in Field and Expedition Science: 2. 'Skull hunters on the pampa: anthropology as uncanny encounter in Argentina's 'last massacre'' Julia E. Rodriguez; 3. 'Subverting the anthropometric gaze: racial science in the 1912 Yale Peruvian expedition' Adam Warren; 4. 'Modest witnesses of violence: salvage ethnography and the capture of ache children' Sebastian Gil-Riano; Part II. Institutional Encounters, Discipline, and Settler Colonial Logics: 5. 'Replacing native Hawaiian kinship with social scientific care: settler colonial transinstitutionalization of children in the territory of Hawai'i' Maile Arvin; 6. 'Port of epistemic riches: social science research and incarceration in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico' Alberto Ortiz-Diaz; 7. 'The imperial logic of American bioethics: holding science and history to account' Laura Stark; Part III. Governance, Politics, and Self-Determination: 8. 'Investigating Cuauhtemoc's bones: politics, truth, and mestizo nationalism in Mexico' Karin Rosemblatt; 9. 'Unequal encounters: debating resource scarcity, population, and hunger in the early cold war' Eve Buckley; 10. 'Bureaucratic vulnerability: possession, sovereignty, and relationality in Brazilian research regulation' Rosanna Dent; Conclusions and Epilogues: 11. 'Unsettling encounters' Stephen T. Casper; 12. 'Feel it in your bones: the difference indigenous studies makes' Maria Elena Garcia; 13. 'The pole is back home' Gabriela Soto Laveaga; Works cited; Index.
History of Science and Medicine; Latin American and Caribbean Studies; American History and Hemispheric Studies; Indigenous Studies; Anthropology