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The Colours of the Empire: Racialized Representations during Portuguese Colonialism
Patrícia; Translated By Mark Ayton Ferraz de Matos
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hardcover. The Portuguese Colonial Empire established its base in Africa in the 1500s & would not be dissolved until 1975. This book looks at how the different populations under Portuguese rule were represented within the context of the Colonial Empire by examining the relationship between these representations and the meanings attached to the notion of race. Translator(s): Ayton, Mark. Series: European Anthropology in Translation. Num Pages: 308 pages, 26 ills & tables. BIC Classification: 1DSP; 1H; HBJD; HBTS; JFSL1; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 538. Radicalized Representations During Portuguese Colonialism. Series: European Anthropology in Translation. 308 pages, 26 ills & tables. The Portuguese Colonial Empire established its base in Africa in the 1500s & would not be dissolved until 1975. This book looks at how the different populations under Portuguese rule were represented within the context of the Colonial Empire by examining the relationship between these representations and the meanings attached to the notion of race. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1DSP; 1H; HBJD; HBTS; JFSL1; JHM. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 21. Weight: 538. Translator(s): Ayton, Mark.
The Portuguese Colonial Empire established its base in Africa in the fifteenth century and would not be dissolved until 1975. This book investigates how the different populations under Portuguese rule were represented within the context of the Colonial Empire by examining the relationship between these representations and the meanings attached to the notion of 'race'. Colour, for example, an apparently objective criterion of classification, became a synonym or near-synonym for 'race', i.e., a more abstract notion for which attempts were made to establish scientific credibility. Through her analysis of government documents, colonial propaganda materials, and interviews, the author employs an anthropological perspective to examine how the existence of racist theories, originating in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, went on to inform the policy of the Estado Novo (Second Republic, 1933-1974) and the production of academic literature on 'race' in Portugal. This study provides insight into the relationship between the racist formulations disseminated in Portugal and the racist theories produced from the eighteenth century onward in Europe and beyond.
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
308
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
European Anthropology in Translation
Condition
New
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857457622
SKU
V9780857457622
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About Patrícia; Translated By Mark Ayton Ferraz de Matos
Patricia Ferraz de Matos is an anthropologist whose work focuses on the history of Portuguese anthropology and Portuguese colonialism. She received the Victor de SaPrize of Contemporary History 2005 from the Cultural Council of the University of Minho, Portugal, when this work was first published in Portuguese.
Reviews for The Colours of the Empire: Racialized Representations during Portuguese Colonialism
The translation of this work from Portuguese to English is an important contribution to the study of national traditions in anthropology, frequently overlooked by scholarly research that tends to focus more on the English, American, and French cases. - Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute ...makes a contribution to the growing weight and relevance of the Portuguese archive to colonial and imperial studies. It covers particularly the 1930s and 1940s as apogee decades of dictator Ant nio de Oliveira Salazar's fascist type regime, the longest of its kind in Europe (1926-1974). - American Anthropologist ...a unique volume that traces discourse and representation on 'race' and racism within Portugal and the 'overseas territories'. An exemplar of the new vigour with which the Portuguese academy has developed over the last decade... this is an important book on the history of the concept of 'race' in Portugal and the uses made of it with respect to concepts of the nation and for the political and economic rationales of the Salazar state. - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (...) a most worthy volume, that Portuguese and non-Portuguese scholars alike with an interest in issues of race and representation will appreciate. - Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change [This book] offers an impressive inventory of colonial movies, exhibitions, speeches and writings that will be of great use. Readers interested in the history of colonial ideas and the role of anthropological knowledge in the colonial enterprise will find in this work a complete, well-documented case. - Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale