Full Description
Cesare Lombroso is considered the founder of criminology with his theory distinguishing criminals from noncriminal by physical oddities. This book argues that the study of ethnography in Latin America should give more attention to the Lombroso school and the academic exchange between relatively marginal national anthropologies, such as the Italian and Latin American schools. From racial ideas in Italy at the end of the nineteenth century to Lombroso's voyages to South America and his legacy after his passing, Cesare Lombroso in Latin America is presented through an anthropologist's eye through interpretation of many explored and unexplored historical documents.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: In the Footsteps of Nina Rodrigues
Chapter 1. The Racial Question in the Late 1800s
Chapter 2. The Lombroso Galaxy as Global Home Science
Chapter 3. Encounters and Clashes in South America
Chapter 4. The Role of Brazil and Latin America in the Geopolitics of Knowledge: Race and Positivism
Conclusion: Final Reflections on the Circulation of Lombroso's Ideas in Latin America
Appendix: From Italy to the World: The Journey of Lombroso's Ideas
Bibliography
Index
