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Brain and Race - A History of Cerebral Anthropology (Hardcover) Loot Price: R5,160
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Brain and Race - A History of Cerebral Anthropology (Hardcover): Claudio Pogliano

Brain and Race - A History of Cerebral Anthropology (Hardcover)

Claudio Pogliano

Series: Nuncius Series, 4

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Since the second half of the eighteenth century, generations of scientists persisted in studying the relationships between the volume, weight or shape of the human brain and the degree of 'intelligence'. In Pogliano's book, the thread of time drives the narrative up to the mid-twentieth century. It investigates the duration and changes of a game that was intrinsically political, although having to do with bones and nervous matter. Races made its main object, during a long period when Western culture believed the human species to be naturally partitioned into a number of discrete types, with their innate and hereditary traits. Never leading to irrefutable achievements, the polycentric (as well as visual) enterprise herein described is full of growing tensions, doubts, and disillusionment.

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Imprint: Brill
Country of origin: Netherlands
Series: Nuncius Series, 4
Release date: June 2020
First published: 2020
Authors: Claudio Pogliano
Dimensions: 235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 978-90-04-42933-8
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > General
Books > History > Theory & methods > General
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LSN: 90-04-42933-6
Barcode: 9789004429338

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