Empire, Colonialism, and the Human Sciences : Troubling Encounters in the Americas and Pacific

Warren, Adam (EDT)/ Rodriguez, Julia E. (EDT)/ Casper, Stephen T. (EDT)

Cambridge University Press（2024/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 388 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009398138
• DDC分類 325.8

Full Description

In this bold reconsideration of the human sciences, an interdisciplinary team employ an expanded theoretical and geographical critical lens centering the notion of the encounter. Drawing insights from Indigenous and Latin American Studies, nine case studies delve into the dynamics of encounters between researchers, intermediaries, and research subjects in imperial and colonial contexts across the Americas and Pacific. Essays explore ethical considerations and knowledge production practices that prevailed in field and expedition science, custodial institutions, and governance debates. They reevaluate how individuals and communities subjected to research projects embraced, critiqued, or subverted them. Often, research subjects expressed their own aspirations, asserted sovereignty or autonomy, and exercised forms of power through interactions or acts of refusal. This book signals the transformative potential of Indigenous Studies and Latin American Studies for shaping future scholarship on the history of the human sciences. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Contents

Preface; 1. An introduction to troubling encounters Adam Warren, Julia E. Rodriguez and Stephen T. Casper; Part I. Relationality in Field and Expedition Science: 2. 'Skull hunters on the pampa: anthropology as uncanny encounter in Argentina's 'last massacre'' Julia E. Rodriguez; 3. 'Subverting the anthropometric gaze: racial science in the 1912 Yale Peruvian expedition' Adam Warren; 4. 'Modest witnesses of violence: salvage ethnography and the capture of aché children' Sebastián Gil-Riaño; Part II. Institutional Encounters, Discipline, and Settler Colonial Logics: 5. 'Replacing native Hawaiian kinship with social scientific care: settler colonial transinstitutionalization of children in the territory of Hawai'i' Maile Arvin; 6. 'Port of epistemic riches: social science research and incarceration in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico' Alberto Ortiz-Díaz; 7. 'The imperial logic of American bioethics: holding science and history to account' Laura Stark; Part III. Governance, Politics, and Self-Determination: 8. 'Investigating Cuauhtémoc's bones: politics, truth, and mestizo nationalism in Mexico' Karin Rosemblatt; 9. 'Unequal encounters: debating resource scarcity, population, and hunger in the early cold war' Eve Buckley; 10. 'Bureaucratic vulnerability: possession, sovereignty, and relationality in Brazilian research regulation' Rosanna Dent; Conclusions and Epilogues: 11. 'Unsettling encounters' Stephen T. Casper; 12. 'Feel it in your bones: the difference indigenous studies makes' María Elena García; 13. 'The pole is back home' Gabriela Soto Laveaga; Works cited; Index.