Physical anthropology and the description of the 'savage' in the Brazilian Anthropological Exhibition of 1882

História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos

Juanma Sánchez Arteaga²  Charbel Niño El-hani¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Federal da Bahia Instituto de Biologia Filosofia e Ensino de Ciências Biológicas

关键词: anthropological exhibitions;    scientific racism;    physical anthropology;    indigenous people;    science popularization;    exposições antropológicas;    racismo científico;    antropologia física;    populações indígenas;    popularização da ciência;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0104-59702010000200008

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

This paper discusses attempts to popularize scientific knowledge about anthropology through exhibitions of natives in the United States and Brazil from the nineteenth century to the beginnings of the twentieth century. In the First Brazilian Anthropological Exposition (Rio de Janeiro, 1882), a group of Botocudos was characterized in a manner that can be related to the reification of the myth of the savage, an important part of the European culture that played a significant role in the construction of anthropological knowledge in the nineteenth century. From the analyses of such exhibitions, we derive implications for science popularization and education, concerning the ideological undertones of scientific knowledge.

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