The Specter of Races: Latin American Anthropology and Literature Between the Wars - Couverture souple

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Birkenmaier, Anke

 
9780813938790: The Specter of Races: Latin American Anthropology and Literature Between the Wars
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ISBN 10 : 0813938791 ISBN 13 : 9780813938790
Editeur : University of Virginia Press, 2016

Synopsis

Arguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke Birkenmaier shows how theories of race and culture in Latin America evolved dramatically in the period between the two world wars. In response to the rise of scientific racism in Europe and the American hemisphere in the early twentieth century, anthropologists joined numerous writers and artists in founding institutions, journals, and museums that actively pushed for an antiracist science of culture, questioning pseudoscientific theories of race and moving toward more broadly conceived notions of ethnicity and culture.

Birkenmaier surveys the work of key figures such as Cuban historian and anthropologist Fernando Ortiz, Haitian scholar and novelist Jacques Roumain, French anthropologist and museum director Paul Rivet, and Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, focusing on the transnational networks of scholars in France, Spain, and the United States to which they were connected. Reviewing their essays, scientific publications, dictionaries, novels, poetry, and visual arts, the author traces the cultural study of Latin America back to these interdisciplinary discussions about the meaning of race and culture in Latin America, discussions that continue to provoke us today.

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À propos de l?auteur

Anke Birkenmaier, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University, Bloomington, is the author of an award-winning monograph (in Spanish) on Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier and coeditor of Havana beyond the Ruins: Cultural Mappings after 1989.

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Éditeur
University of Virginia Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0813938791
ISBN 13 
9780813938790
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
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ISBN 10 :  0813938783 ISBN 13 :  9780813938783
Editeur : University of Virginia Press, 2016
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