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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade Review “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 António 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
Table of Contents Tables and illustrations
Acknowledgements
Acronyms and abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Origins of a prejudice:the roots of racial discrimination
- The discovery of human variety:early formulations
- The emergence of ‘modern’ racism
- Racialism under attack
Chapter 2. Discourse, images, knowledge:the place of the colonies and their populations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire
- The formation of Portuguese colonialism and ‘colonial knowledge’
- The Colonial Act and the ‘creation’ of the Indígena
- Colonial propaganda:‘marketing the empire’
- Colonial representations in primary and secondary school readers
- Cinema and colonialism in action:moving pictures on colonial themes (1928-53)
- Recurrent images and prejudices
- The production of ‘anthropological knowledge’ of the colonies
- Racial purity, miscegenation and the appropriation of myths
Chapter 3. Exhibiting the empire, imagining the nation:representations of the colonies and the overseas Portuguese in the great exhibitions
- The age of the great exhibitions
- Representations of the Portuguese colonies, 1924-31
- A ‘Guinean village’ at the Lisbon Industrial Exhibition (1932)
- The Portuguese Colonial Exhibition of 1934:concept and objectives
- Representations of the Portuguese colonies, 1934-39
- The Exhibition of the Portuguese World (1940):concept and objectives
- Colonial representations in Portugal dos Pequenitos
- The status of the colonized populations at the exhibitions: the exotic vs. the familiar
Conclusions
Appendix I: Film
Appendix II: Texts from the padrões of Portugal dos Pequenitos
Bibliography
