Race, Anthropology and (De)Coloniality

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-4732-9
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Decolonization and Social Worlds

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ballestero, Diego

Petschelies, Erik

Weitere Mitwirkende

Florvil, Tiffany

Azeredo de Moraes, Fernanda

Savoniakaite, Vida

Ferraz de Matos, Patricia

Obura, Oduor

Shiraiwa, Shikoh

Paterniani, Stella

Borges, Antonádia

Belisário, Gustavo

Rambaran-Olm, Mary

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Savoniakaite

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

Über Autor(innen)

Petschelies, Erik
Erik Petschelies is Postdoctoral Fellow in Social History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

Ballestero, Diego
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.

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).