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Headhunting and Colonialism : Anthropology and the Circulation of Human Skulls in the Portuguese Empire, 1870-1930 / by R. Roque.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roque, Ricardo.
- Series:
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, 2635-1641
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asia--History.
- Asia.
- Europe--History.
- Europe.
- History, Modern.
- Ethnology.
- Anthropology.
- Asian History.
- European History.
- Modern History.
- Sociocultural Anthropology.
- Local Subjects:
- Asian History.
- European History.
- Modern History.
- Sociocultural Anthropology.
- Anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (357 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2010.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An exploration of headhunting and the collection of heads for European museums in the context of colonial wars, from the 1870s to the 1930s. The book offers a new understanding of the mutually dependent interaction between indigenous peoples and colonial powers, and how collected remains became regarded as objects of wider significance.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note:
- Illustrations and Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Introduction
- PART I: ENCOUNTERS WITH PARASITES
- Parasitism in Colonial Interactions
- The Order of Ceremonial Government
- The Circulatory System of Colonial Headhunting
- PART II: SKULLS AND HISTORIES
- Trajectories of Human Skulls in Museum Collections
- Human skulls as anthropological objects
- History and Classification in Timorese Anthropology
- Collecting and the Dramas of Colonial Hostility
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-322) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612870033
- 9781282870031
- 1282870033
- 9780230251335
- 0230251331
- OCLC:
- 649366254
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